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Sustainability in Mechanical Design and Product Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Products and Services".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 3992

Special Issue Editors

Dr. U. Ubaidillah

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sebelas Maret University, Surakarta 57126, Indonesia
Interests: mechanical design; smart materials; actuator design; functional product development; advanced manufacturing
Dr. Fitrian Imaduddin

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Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic University of Madinah, Medina 42351, Saudi Arabia
Interests: mechatronic system; actuator design; additive manufacturing; system identification and modeling; nonlinear system; artificial intelligent

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Sustainable Development Goals include 17 items in the agenda that comprise an extensive action plan established around three pillars, namely people, planet, and prosperity. They consequently influence the development strategies in global engineering systems. Therefore, mechanical engineering design and product development are also strongly affected. Mechanical design and product development are the main concerns of mechanical engineers in making relevant decisions throughout the lifecycle of infrastructure, processes, or products. Mechanical engineers and researchers indeed play numerous roles in such lifecycle decision making.

The aim of this Special issue is to provide a scientific platform for scientists, industrial practitioners, researchers, and academics to exchange ideas and findings related to mechanical engineering design and product development as well as sustainability in product development through the publication of insightful and influential findings. Manuscripts can be in the form of original research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, bibliometric reviews, and communications/letters.

Potential research topics include but are not limited to:

(i) sustainable energies, (ii) sustainable manufacturing and their system, (iii) sustainable functional materials, (iv) sustainable mechanical–electrical systems, (v) sustainable mechanical designs and products, (vi) sustainable mechanical computation, (vi) advanced industrial physics, (vii) sustainable biology-related mechanical systems, and (vii) other sustainable engineering applications.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. U. Ubaidillah
Dr. Fitrian Imaduddin
Guest Editors

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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

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A Quality Control Improvement Model That Takes into Account the Sustainability Concept and KPIs
by Andrzej Pacana and Karolina Czerwińska
Sustainability 2023, 15(12), 9627; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15129627 - 15 Jun 2023
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Nowadays, in addition to quality aspects, social and environmental issues are also a source of competitive advantage, as a result of changing socio-economic conditions and observed trends. The purpose of the study was to create a model for improving quality control in line [...] Read more.
Nowadays, in addition to quality aspects, social and environmental issues are also a source of competitive advantage, as a result of changing socio-economic conditions and observed trends. The purpose of the study was to create a model for improving quality control in line with the concept of sustainable development. The model captures the microfoundational approach, and allows identifying quality capability with the idea of sustainable development. The proposed method is based on analyses of the characteristic parameters of methods for detecting aluminum casting nonconformities using automated or semi-automated nondestructive methods. The interdisciplinary approach takes into account indicators from the leading areas of sustainable development (economic, environmental and social dimensions) to determine the gradation of detection methods. Verification of the model confirmed its usefulness in foundry companies. As a result, a ranking of the total efficiency of the analyzed detection methods used in the quality control of the studied product was obtained. This enabled the development of energy, emission and cost optimization of the inspection process while maintaining the expected level of quality. Further research directions will concern the expansion of the model with additional key indicators related to the concept of pure quality control and automation of the implementation of analysis. Full article
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Bibliometric Review of Magnetorheological Materials
by U Ubaidillah, Bhre Wangsa Lenggana and Seung-Bok Choi
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 15816; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142315816 - 28 Nov 2022
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The findings and technological developments related to intelligent materials are increasingly attracting the attention of scientists. One such field is that of magnetorheological (MR) materials. Scientific studies on MR materials have been carried out to determine the performance and characteristics of, for example, [...] Read more.
The findings and technological developments related to intelligent materials are increasingly attracting the attention of scientists. One such field is that of magnetorheological (MR) materials. Scientific studies on MR materials have been carried out to determine the performance and characteristics of, for example, MR dampers, MR elastomers, and MR foams. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there has been no statistical discussion in the form of bibliometric analyses of developments in the field of MR materials in the last ten years. This is fascinating, considering that bibliometric studies have considerable impacts and contributions, such as studies on the growth of research patterns, avoiding the repetition of research topics, and analyzing future research. This also supports the future sustainability of the topic of MR materials, helping to bridge the gap that has probably existed since the introduction of MR materials. The relationship between the authors’ scientific research, domestic and global collaborations, and the evolution of themes over the last few years is also shown in this analysis. Thus, this study aimed to fill the gap in such materials by conducting a bibliometric analysis of 1830 articles related to MR materials published over the last 10 years. The results indicated that the field of MR materials has exhibited good growth. The introduction of MR fluid materials to new types of MR materials is still in the early stages of research, such as in applications with MR foam. Further analysis showed that there is a connection and dominance of scientific publications related to MR technology. Furthermore, based on bibliometric analysis, dominant theme changes in the area of MR elastomers, particularly related to carbonyl iron particles and MR polishing, is seldom mentioned, as is also the case for MR gels, MR foam, and MR grease. However, the discussion of new MR materials is a good opportunity to promote developments in the field of MR materials. Full article
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