Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering: Recent submissions
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ANFIS Modeling of Human Welder's Response to Three Dimensional Weld Pool Surface in GTAW
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Understanding and modeling of the human welder's response to threedimensional (3D) weld pool surface may help develop next generation intelligent welding machines and train welders faster. In this paper, human welder's ... -
Melting, Vaporization, and Resolidification in a Thin Gold Film Irradiated by Multiple Femtosecond Laser Pulses
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Melting, vaporization, and resolidification in a gold thin film subject to multiple femtosecond laser pulses are numerically studied in the framework of the twotemperature model. The solidliquid phase change is modeled ... -
Uncertainty Analysis of Solid Liquid Vapor Phase Change of a Metal Particle Subject to Nanosecond Laser Heating
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)The effects of the uncertainties of various parameters, including the laser fluence, diameter of metal powder particles, laser pulse width, and the initial temperature of metal particles on solidliquidvapor phase change ... -
Thermal Response Modeling of Sheet Metals in Uniaxial Tension During Electrically Assisted Forming
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)For the current practice of improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions in the automotive sector, it is becoming more common to use low density/high strength materials instead of costly engine/drivetrain technologies. ... -
Position Dependent Multibody Dynamic Modeling of Machine Tools Based on Improved Reduced Order Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Dynamic response of a machine tool structure varies along the tool path depending on the changes in its structural configurations. The productivity of the machine tool varies as a function of its frequency response function ... -
Characterization of Joint Quality in Ultrasonic Welding of Battery Tabs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Manufacturing of lithiumion battery packs for electric or hybrid electric vehicles requires a significant amount of joining, such as welding, to meet the desired power and capacity needs. However, conventional fusion welding ... -
Size Reduction of Cellulosic Biomass in Biofuel Manufacturing: Separating the Confounding Effects of Particle Size and Biomass Crystallinity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Increasing demands and concerns for reliable supply of liquid transportation fuels make it important to find alternative sources to petroleumbased fuels. Cellulosic biofuels provide one such alternative in the short to ... -
Cost Estimates of Cellulosic Ethanol Production: A Review
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)Increasing demands and concerns for reliable supply of liquid transportation fuels make it important to find alternatives to petroleumbased fuels. One such alternative is ethanol made from cellulosic biomass. Considerable ... -
A Proposed Technique to Acquire Cavity Pressure Using a Surface Strain Sensor During Injection Compression Molding
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)A new technique was proposed and experimentally verified for the cavity pressure acquisition in the injectioncompression molding (ICM). The surface strain of the fixed mold half and the cavity pressure were monitored ... -
Roughening of Free Surface During Sheet Metal Forming
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This investigation concerns the effect of the process parameters on surface roughening during plastic deformation. The modeling is based on the assumption that surface roughness is proportional to the maximum shear stress ... -
Identification and Modeling of Process Damping in Milling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)In this study, a practical identification method for process damping is presented for milling, and the information obtained from identification is used for modeling purposes. In the proposed approach, the processdamping ... -
Reconstruction of Three Dimensional Gas Metal Arc Weld Pool Surface From Reflected Laser Pattern
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)A system has been developed to measure the threedimensional weld pool surface geometry in the gas metal arc welding (GMAW) process. It utilizes the specular nature of the weld pool surface by projecting a fiveline laser ... -
Experimental Investigation of a New Grid Cathode Design Method in Electrochemical Machining
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This paper focuses on the grid cathode design in electrochemical machining (ECM) in order to develop a new cathode design method for realizing a breakthrough: one cathode can produce different workpieces with different ... -
Feasibility of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Based Metalworking Fluids in Micromilling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2013)This article investigates the feasibility of using supercritical carbon dioxide based metalworking fluids (scCO2 metalworking fluids (MWFs)) to improve micromachinability of metals. Specifically, sets of channels were ... -
Flake Orientation in Injection Molding of Pigmented Thermoplastics
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In the present work, experimental studies are carried out to understand orientation kinematics of pigment flakes during the injection molding process. The injection molding experiments are carried ... -
Characterization of Melting and Solidification Phenomena in Electromagnetic Punching of Aluminum Tubes
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Electromagnetic punching of tubular products is considered to be a promising innovative perforating process. The required punching energy decreases when using high velocities. Also, less tools are ... -
Size Reduction of Cellulosic Biomass in Biofuel Manufacturing: A Study on Confounding Effects of Particle Size and Biomass Crystallinity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Biofuels derived from cellulosic biomass offer an alternative to petroleum-based liquid transportation fuels. In order to convert cellulosic biomass into biofuels, size reduction is a necessary ... -
Workpiece Thermal Distortion in Minimum Quantity Lubrication Deep Hole Drilling—Finite Element Modeling and Experimental Validation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper presents the three dimensional (3-D) finite element analysis (FEA) to predict the workpiece thermal distortion in drilling multiple deep-holes under minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) ... -
Multiple-Scale Wavelet Decomposition, 3D Surface Feature Exaction and Applications
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper presents a method of applying wavelets to decompose three-dimensional surface into multiple-scale subsurfaces, and of using the subsurface features to predict surface functions and ... -
A New Mechanistic Approach for Micro End Milling Force Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper investigates the mechanistic modeling of micro end milling forces, with consideration of the effects of plowing, elastic recovery, effective rake angle, and flank face rubbing. Two ...