2022 October - 36 articles
Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) is considered by many as one of the most promising approaches towards cost- and time-efficient mass customization. Compared to conventional manufacturing systems, DDM systems are not as common and incorporate severa...
This article deals with the issue of online chatter detection during milling. The aim is to achieve a verification of the reliability and robustness of selected methods for the detection of chatter that can be evaluated on the machine tool in real ti...
In order to improve efficiency when manufacturing gas turbine components, alternative machining techniques need to be explored. In this work, abrasive water jet (AWJ) machining by milling has been investigated as an alternative to traditional milling...
Sliding friction diamond burnishing is a finishing machining operation whose purpose is to improve the surface integrity of previously machined surfaces and increase their surface hardness. When analyzing a complex process involving plastic deformati...
The trend towards lightweight design, driven by increasingly stringent emission targets, poses challenges to conventional joining processes due to the different mechanical properties of the joining partners used to manufacture multi-material systems....
The deep-drawability of a sheet metal blank is strongly influenced by the tribological conditions prevailing in a deep-drawing process. Therefore, new methods to influence the tribology represent an important research topic. In this work, the applica...
The objectives of this study are mainly two: (1) to validate whether a single grain scratch process can be modeled in two dimensions under the assumption of plane strain, and (2) to select the best discretization approach to model a single grain scra...
Nowadays, digital printing technologies such as inkjet and aerosol jet printing are gaining more importance since they have proven to be suitable for the assembly of complex microsystems. This also applies to medical technology applications like hear...
Acoustic emission-based monitoring of the milling process holds the potential to detect undesired damages of fibre-reinforced plastic workpieces, such as delamination or matrix cracking. In addition, abrasive tool wear, tool breakage, or coating fail...
Injection moulding is a polymer processing method of choice for making plastic parts on industrial scale, but its traditional mould is made from tooling steel with time-consuming and costly production. Additive manufacturing technologies arise as an...
The traditional manufacturing industry has been revolutionized with the introduction of additive manufacturing which is based on layer-by-layer manufacturing. Due to these tool-free techniques, complex shape manufacturing becomes much more convenient...
In the metal cutting process, the tool condition directly affects the quality of the machined component. To control the quality of the cutting tool and avoid equipment downtime, it is essential to monitor its condition during the machining process. T...
Cellular structures of metallic alloys are often made for various industrial applications by additive manufacturing. The permeability for fluid flow in these cellular structures is important. The current investigated the gas fluidity of cellular stru...
Electro-discharge drilling is a key technology for manufacturing sophisticated nozzles in a broad range of automotive and aerospace applications. The formation of debris in the working gap leads to arcs and short circuits on the lateral surface when...
The Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) process is recognized for high-end industrial applications due to its ability to produce parts with high geometric complexity. If lightweighting is one of the main strengths of L-PBF, a weakness is still the trade-...
Laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LH-DAC) experimentation has emerged as a leading technique for materials processing at extreme pressures and temperatures. LH-DAC systems are often employed to better characterise the structure and properties of mater...
The clean technologies of self-cleaning surfaces are expanding rapidly. Highly hydrophobic coatings with strong adhesion, high durability, and dirt-free surfaces have been prepared via sol-gel deposition of SiO2-TiO2-alkylsilane. The influence of the...
Dimensional accuracy and geometric characteristics of the manufactured parts bear significant importance in product assembly. In Rapid Investment Casting, these characteristics can be affected by the printing parameters of the Additive Manufacturing...
Maintenance is an activity that cannot be separated from the context of product manufacturing. It is carried out to maintain the components’ or machines’ function so that no failure can reduce the machine’s productivity. One type of...
This study examines and compares the microstructures, Vickers microindentation hardness, and mechanical properties for additively manufactured (AM) samples built by a variety of AM processes: wire arc AM (WAAM), electron beam powder bed fusion (EB-PB...
In this report, a novel non-contact, non-invasive methodology for near and quasi real-time measurement of the structuring of metal surfaces using pulsed laser ablation is described. This methodology is based on the use of a multi-messenger data appro...
The titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V ELI is most commonly used for medical implant products because it is corrosion resistant, high strength, and lightweight. In actuality, the temperature will be very high during the machining of this material. This will ac...
Polymer-based engineering materials (plastics, polymer matrix composites, and similar) are becoming more widely used for the design and construction of consumer products and systems. While providing a host of design benefits, these materials also can...
Manufacturing tiny components into gigantic structures seems unimaginable without welding connections, whether it is for materials, parts, structures, or equipment. In the recent competitive market scenario, manufacturing industries are desperately l...
Copper is a key material for cooling of thermally stressed components in modern aerospace propulsion systems, due to its high thermal conductivity. The use of copper materials for such applications requires both high material strength and high stabil...
In binder jetting (BJ), an ink is inserted layerwise into a powder bed to selectively bond the particles in the cross-section of a part. By predicting the penetration depth of the ink, the ideal layer thickness for BJ can be set. Each layer should be...
Subtractive manufacturing processes are usually accompanied by the occurrence of tiny flakes and swarf, which later on cause severe wear and damage, especially in moving components such as rolling or sliding bearings, pistons, etc. However, up until...
The focus of this research is on thermal contact resistance between a mold and its insert, specifically inserts made by additive manufacturing (AM). Using a thermal steady-state system and varying contact pressures (0, 50, 75, and 100 bars), we prese...
Access to vacuum systems is limited because of economic costs. A rapidly growing approach to reduce the costs of scientific equipment is to combine open-source hardware methods with digital distributed manufacturing with 3D printers. Although high-en...
This paper introduces a novel approach to in-process monitoring of the cutting temperature at the tool-chip interface (TCI). Currently, there are no tools available in the commercial market for measuring and monitoring cutting processes at the TCI re...
Electro-discharge machining (EDM) is a useful non-conventional machining operation frequently applied to make different complex geometries in any conducting material. The objectives of the present paper are to study the effect of a variation of therm...
Dissimilar friction stir spot welds (FSSW) between the magnesium and aluminum alloys are joined, using a novel approach called refill friction stir spot welding. The present work aims to evaluate the macrostructural and mechanical properties of refil...
Friction stir welding (FSW) has been proposed as an alternative modern joining technology and demonstrated important benefits for the manufacturing of efficient and lightweight aircraft structures using high-strength aluminium alloys. These structure...
In times of short product life cycles, additive manufacturing and rapid tooling are important methods to make tool development and manufacturing more efficient. High-performance polymers are the key to mold production for prototypes and small series....
Additive Friction Stir Deposition (AFSD) is a recent innovation in non-beam-based metal additive manufacturing that achieves layer-by-layer deposition while avoiding the solid-to-liquid phase transformation. AFSD presents numerous benefits over other...
This paper presents an artificial neural network (ANN) approach to the estimation of the Vickers hardness parameter at the weld zone of laser-welded sintered duplex stainless steel. The sintered welded stainless-steel hardness is primarily determined...
