Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering: Recent submissions
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In Memoriam: Ranga Komanduri
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Ranga Komanduri, Regents Professor and A. H. Nelson, Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering at Oklahoma State University, passed away on September 6, 2011 at his home in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He is ... -
Transmission Welding of Glass by Femtosecond Laser: Mechanism and Fracture Strength
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Femtosecond laser pulses were focused on the interface of two glass specimens. Proper use of optical and laser processing parameters enables transmission welding. The morphology of the weld cross ... -
Transient Thermocapillary Convection in a Molten or Weld Pool
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This study presents a numerical scenario for the effect of thermocapillary convection on the transient, two-dimensional molten pool shape during welding or melting. Tracing the melting process ... -
Simultaneous Consideration of Scalable-Reconfigurable Manufacturing System Investment and Operating Costs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The design of manufacturing systems is typically decoupled from ordering policy decisions. Traditionally, the system design decision is made to minimize the total investment cost given some system ... -
Partial Transient Liquid Phase Diffusion Bonding of Zircaloy-4 to Stabilized Austenitic Stainless Steel 321 Using Titanium Interlayer
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In this study, an innovative method was applied for bonding Zircaloy-4 to stabilized austenitic stainless steel 321 using an active titanium interlayer. Specimens were joined by partial transient ... -
New Continuous Dynamic Coupling for Three Component Modeling of Tool–Holder–Spindle Structure of Machine Tools With Modified Effected Tool Damping
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In machine dynamics, the tool point frequency response functions (FRFs) are employed to predict the stable machining conditions. In this paper, a combined analytical– experimental substructuring ... -
Commutation Sparking Image Monitoring for DC Motor
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)As one of the most important parameters in evaluating the status of a DC motor, commutation spark has been widely used in condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. A new approach using image ... -
Automated Robot Tool Trajectory Connection for Spray Forming Process
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Automated robot tool trajectory planning for spray forming is highly desirable for today’s automotive manufacturing. Generating a robot tool trajectory to manufacture an automotive part to satisfy ... -
Source Contribution Evaluation of Mechanical Vibration Signals via Enhanced Independent Component Analysis
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Extraction of effective information from measured vibration signals is a fundamental task for the machinery condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. As a typical blind source separation (BSS) ... -
The Costs of Downtime Incidents in Serial Multistage Manufacturing Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Downtime is arguably the single most significant contributor to system inefficiency in a multistage manufacturing system. Achieving near-zero downtime has been the ultimate goal of production ... -
Setup Planning Automation for Six-Axis Wire Electrical Discharge Machining
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)A modern six-axis wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) system is capable of producing more complex geometries than 2D, 2½D, or ruled surface parts. The rotational axis on a six-axis ... -
Development of Evolutionary Method for Optimizing a Roll Forming Process of Aluminum Parts
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper presents the development of the knowledge-based neural network (KBNN) and genetic algorithm (GA) in modeling and optimization of the roll forming (RF) process of aluminum parts. The ... -
The Effects of Cutting Speed and Depth of Cut on Machinability Characteristics of Austempered Ductile Iron
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)Ductile iron can acquire enhanced thermal and mechanical properties from austempering heat treatment. The present study aims to identify the function of different cutting parameters affecting ... -
Microstructural Modeling and Dynamic Process Simulation of Laser-Assisted Machining of Silicon Nitride Ceramics With Distinct Element Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The distinct element method (or discrete element method, DEM) is applied to simulate the dynamic process of laser-assisted machining (LAM) of silicon nitride ceramics. This is motivated by the ... -
An Inverse Heat Transfer Method for Determining Workpiece Temperature in Minimum Quantity Lubrication Deep Hole Drilling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This study investigates the workpiece temperature in minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) deep hole drilling. An inverse heat transfer method is developed to estimate the spatial and temporal change ... -
A Simplified Model for Assessing the Work-Hardening Effect in the Analysis of Plate Drawing Processes by Upper Bound Method
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This work presents an analysis of the plate drawing processes carried out in converging dies. The analysis has been made by the upper bound method (UBM), modeling the plastic deformation zone ... -
Capability Estimation of Geometrical Tolerance With a Material Modifier by a Hasofer–Lind Index
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)This paper considers a way of measuring a process capability index in order to obtain the geometric tolerance of a pattern of position elements according to the ASME Y14.5 standard. The number ... -
Mathematical Modeling and Implementation of Residual Stress Mapping From Microscale to Macroscale Finite Element Models
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The paper reviews a development of mathematical algorithms and implementation of mapping residual stress profiles from microscale to macroscale finite element (FE) models. A shot-peening simulation ... -
State Space Modeling of Variation Propagation in Multistation Machining Processes Considering Machining-Induced Variations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)In spite of the success of the stream of variation (SoV) approach to modeling variation propagation in multistation machining processes (MMPs), the absence of machining-induced variations could ... -
Robust Initial Matching of Free-Form Objects Represented by Point Clouds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2012)The problem of best matching two point cloud data sets or, mathematically, identifying the best rigid-body transformation matrix between them, arises in many application areas such as geometric ...