Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering: Recent submissions
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Nanomanufacturing Using Electrospinning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Electrospinning has become a popular technique for fabricating nanofibers from a variety of materials and has been tailored for a multitude of applications. These nanofibers may be used as ... -
An Analytical Model to Predict Residual Stress Field Induced by Laser Shock Peening
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Laser shock peening (LSP) is an innovative surface treatment technique similar to shot peening. An analytical model to predict the residual stress field can obtain the impact effect much quickly, ... -
Finite Element Analysis of Plastic Strain Distribution in Multipass ECAE Process of High Density Polyethylene
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) is a relatively novel forming process to modify microstructure via severe plastic deformation without modification of the sample cross section. In this ... -
Dynamic Material Response of Aluminum Single Crystal Under Microscale Laser Shock Peening
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The process of laser shock peening induces compressive residual stresses in a material to improve material fatigue life. For micron sized laser beams, the size of the laser-target interaction ... -
Modeling and Prediction of the Flow, Pressure, and Holding Force Generated by a Bernoulli Handling Device
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)This paper presents the modeling and prediction of the air flow, pressure, and holding (or lifting) force produced by a noncontact Bernoulli gripper, which is essentially a radial air flow ... -
Modeling of Flow Rate, Pore Size, and Porosity for the Dispensing-Based Tissue Scaffolds Fabrication
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Dispensing technique is one of the promising solid freeform (SFF) methods to fabricate scaffolds with controllable pore sizes and porosities. In this paper, a model to represent the dispensing-based ... -
Electromagnetic Impact Welding of Al-to-Al–Li Sheets
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The potential for weight savings resulting from the low density and high stiffness of aluminum-lithium (Al–Li) alloys and the difficulty in fusion welding of these alloys led to this study of ... -
Metal Removal in EDM Driven by Shifting Secondary Discharge
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Metal removal mechanism in electrical discharge machining (EDM) is revealed as shifting secondary discharges inside a cathodic root. Typical for EDM sinking process, the electrode couple of steel ... -
Quantitative Analysis of Holes Produced in Laser Micromachining: A New Quality Index
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Prior methods of assessing the quality of laser machined features are reviewed. The common features that contribute to a quality analysis for laser-drilled holes are described and the best ... -
A Novel Shock Processing by High-Intensity Pulsed Ion Beam
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A novel shock processing by high-intensity pulsed ion beam (HIPIB) is developed, referred to as ion beam shock processing (IBSP), for surface processing of components with high surface integrity. ... -
Modeling and Control of Contouring Errors for Five-Axis Machine Tools—Part II: Precision Contour Controller Design
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The accurate tracking of tool-paths on five-axis CNC machine tools is essential in achieving high speed machining of dies, molds, and aerospace parts with sculptured surfaces. Because traditional ... -
Effect of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Loading on the Thermomechanical Properties and the Machinability of CNT-Reinforced Polymer Composites
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The machinability of carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced polymer composites is studied as a function of CNT loading, in light of the trends seen in their material properties. To this end, the ... -
Condition-Based Maintenance Decision-Making for Multiple Machine Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Maintenance decision-making has emerged as an important area of industrial research. Over the past two decades, maintenance policies have evolved from simple reactive maintenance to complex versions ... -
Reliability-Based Dynamic Maintenance Threshold for Failure Prevention of Continuously Monitored Degrading Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Machine failures in manufacturing systems interrupt production operations and cause production loss. The conventional methods for failure prevention are to perform preventive maintenance before ... -
Microstructural Assessment of Copper Friction Stir Welds
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Friction stir welding (FSW) of electrolytic tough pitch copper plates was conducted using a conventional CNC milling machine. The microstructure evolution of the weld was correlated with the ... -
Modeling and Control of Contouring Errors for Five-Axis Machine Tools—Part I: Modeling
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Aerospace, die, and mold industries utilize parts with sculptured surfaces, which are machined on five-axis computer numerical controlled machine tools. Accurate path tracking for contouring is ... -
Efficient Gradient-Based Tolerance Optimization Using Monte Carlo Simulation
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)A gradient-based optimization approach is employed to select design tolerances for the component dimensions of a mechanical assembly to minimize manufacturing cost while achieving a desired ... -
Numerical Simulation of Random Packing of Spherical Particles for Powder-Based Additive Manufacturing
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Powder-based additive manufacturing is an efficient and rapid manufacturing technique because it allows fabrication of complex parts that are often unobtainable by traditional manufacturing processes. ... -
Predictive Modeling and Experimental Verification of Temperature and Concentration in Rapid Freeze Prototyping With Support Material
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)Rapid freeze prototyping is a solid freeform fabrication method that uses water freezing into ice as the build material. Each layer of geometry is deposited and allowed to freeze before the ... -
The Effect of Laser Pulse Duration and Feed Rate on Pulsed Laser Polishing of Microfabricated Nickel Samples
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2009)The objective of this work was to improve our understanding of pulsed laser micropolishing (PLμP) by studying the effects of laser pulse length and feed rate (pulses per millimeter) on surface ...