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Machining in its general concept forms the major part of manufacturing processes regarding time and cost. Therefore any progress in machining techniques would be well beneficial. High speed machining is one of the recent concepts in machining technology which has attracted much attention and effort. But high speed spindles as the main part of high speed machines, have been notorious for their lack of reliability and sudden failure which originates mostly from thermal problems. In order to ensure reliable operation of spindles it is necessary to predict thermo-mechanical behavior of machine-tool spindles. The major sources of heat in a spindle are angular contact ball bearings (the most... 

Referring to mortality increasment having sprung from atherosclerosis, work on treatment of coronary heart disease seems to be necessary. Stent implementation is one of stenosis treatment. Stent deployment has been done during past two decades, but clinical evidence showed that because of some weakness in designing and implementing, restenosis occurs again. Material, structure and coating texture of stent are the designing criteria beside stent implementation importance. Thus a lot of activities have been done in this area to improve performance of these applications. Nowadays a lot of companies' researchers try the best to get better their products; consequently there is different types of... 

Investigation stability of chatter vibration is of great importance in machining processes. Finding frequency response function (FRF) at the tool tip is an effective method to predict stable machining regions. Commonly, the tool tip FRF is obtained using experimental modal analysis but this approach is often time consuming and requires expertise. In addition, changing tool or holder requires modal test which is a disadvantage, consequently modeling methods are of interest for researchers. Moreover, optimum design of machine tool is another benefit of modeling method. Also, in machining with flexible or micro tools in which experimental tests can not be performed, modeling methods would be... 

Bones adapt their form and structure to make an efficient use of their mass against the applied mechanical loads. So, it is not surprising to assume that the geometry and density distribution of a bone contains information about its loading history. The objective of this work was to develop a framework to simulate the bone remodeling procedure as a topology optimization process and then use this framework to develop a simple technique for estimating the dominant joint loads based on the bone’s density distribution.
At first, the remodeling equation was derived from the structural optimization task of minimizing the strain energy in each time step, using the level set method. Employment... 

Forging process is recognized as the high speed method, economical and with ability to produce high strength parts between metal forming processes. Preform design is the most important step in forging process. In the past this work was done based on experiences. In the complex parts because of error in design there was probability of diverse dies, so that method needed to spent so many times and costs. However recently with progress in computer programming we don’t need to produce diverse dies but spend many times. In this field many investigations are done to dispose designers skills, so forging preform design based on inverse finite elements method is denoted for this gold. In this thesis... 

In conventional grinding of hard to cut materials such as Ti6Al4V alloys, surface burning, redeposition and adhesion of chips to wheel and workpeice occur visibly unless it is carried out at low speeds and with high volume of cutting fluid. Ultrasonic assisted grinding (UAG) is an efficient machining process for hard-to-cut materials with poor machinability. UAG improves the machinability of such materials by changing the kinematics of the process. In this research, the effect of imposition of ultrasonic vibration on the grinding of Ti6Al4V is studied. Longitudinal vibration at ultrasonic frequency range (20 kHz) is applied on the workpiece and machining forces and surface roughness are... 

In this thesis, an extended nonlinear model of peripheral milling process (2D) is presented. For the first time, cutting forces are described through a complete third order polynomial function of the axial depth of cut. Also, cubic nonlinearity is considered for the structural stiffness as a function of tool tip displacement. To complete the model, process damping and tool wear effects are also considered. A set of experiments including modal tests to determine natural frequencies and structural damping ratios; and also cutting force measurements at different feed rates to determine nonlinear cutting force coefficients, are carried out. Also, measurement of critical axial depth of cut at... 

An analytical method is developed for description of the assembly process and dimensional error propagation in planar truss structures using two core concepts of “triangular unit cell” and “redundant member”.In order to clarify backbone of the developed method, its connections with other studies in the fields of tolerance analysis, robust design and structural optimization are discussed.Subsequently, triangular unit cell is defined as the basic element of internally determinate trusses and a suitable formulation is derived for calculating its dimensional error propagations characteristics.It is shown that having such a model for a single unit cell is sufficient for tolerance analysis of the... 

Angular contact bearings are utilized in many industrial types of machinery, including machine tools’ spindle. Spindle is one of the most important parts of a machine tool, which has a substantial impact on dynamic properties and stability of machining processes. Spindles’ motion takes place under guidance of bearings, which are mainly angular contact type. Since bearings’ loading under forces that are resulted from angular velocity and temperature increment are intensified, it is required to control the applied forces in operating situation, in order to predict the hardness, accuracy, efficiency, and life time of spindle. Thus, determining the dynamic performance of machine tool’s spindle,... 

Machine tool spindles of late require high stiffness and fast rotation characteristics all at once for high- speed, high-efficient processing, as well as for a wide range of use rotation. Bearing preload is the main reason for Dynamic characteristics of spindle. As such, many studies are being carried out on automatic variable preload control methods that apply a preload to a spindle bearing as an alternative to the existing fixed position preload and constant pressure preload methods. This study introduces a newly design automatic variable preload system. This system can automatically reduced preload with increasing spindle rotational speed through the use of centrifugal force. The system... 

Human joints wear gradually by diseases like arthrosis and will fail. The Pain from joint erode, preventing tracking daily activities, wont disappear by medicines and joint replacement is a common treatment. Hip joint as one of the most important, largest and heaviest joints of the body,is no exception.
Over 600,000 worldwide annual hip replacement surgery is done. The joints are designed in such a way that it can move 15 years without significant wear. Different materials such as ceramics, polymers and metals are used in making it which before in vivo use, itmust succeed many tests like wear test.
Since making artificial joints become increasingly important in recent years and... 

Radial Flow compressors have broad applications in aero-space, transport, gas and oil industries and etc. This type of compressor is a better choice in meeting constraints on weight and space, especially when continuous high pressure stream in low volumetric rate is of interest.
Through main components of radial flow compressors, many investigations have been performed on design and optimization of the impellers and the diffusers, but the optimum design and optimization of compressor volute have received less attention.Volute design has direct and strong influence on compressor performance and its stable operating range.
In this research numerical and experimental investigations is... 

Micromilling is one of the promising micromanufacturing processes used for creating 3D complex micro-scale features such as those used in MEMS devices. The mechanism of chip formation in this technique is different from that in conventional machining, because the size effects due to hardening behavior of microstructures at micro-scales and also the crystallographic orientation of a workpiece texture affects the mechanical behavior where a severe plastic deformation occurs in an induced shear band in front of the tool edge. In the present thesis, micromachining process is investigated by considering these effects. In order to capture the effects of size scale during high speed and large... 

Providing high bandwidth network infrastructures for ever increasing need of data transport is of great importance. The underling infrastructure for many communication services such as GSM/3G/4G mobile networks and Internet services is Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) optical transport systems. SDH are standardized protocols that multiplex multiple lower rate digital bit streams, such as E1 and Ethernet, and transfer them synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or LEDs. In addition to high data transfer rates, flexible network management and protection mechanisms have great importance, hence are part of SDH standards. In order to obtain flexible network architecture and protected... 

Due to high strength, hardness and high resistance to abrasion, ceramics are difficult for machining. Also as the conductivity coefficient of these materials is low, major amount of produced heat during machining process will be absorbed in the cutting tool which causes intensive wear in cutting tool edge. As a result employing traditional machining for these materials because of low machining speed, tool wear, high roughness and large cutting force, has little efficiency in practice. Therefore non-traditional machining method may improve efficacy. In this thesis effect of utilizing ultrasonic vibration in machining process of fused cast silica ceramic has been studied. Aim of this study at... 

Due to recent advances in laser technology and instruments, laser assisted machining processes has gained extra attention by scientists and industries. Naturally, effective modeling of the process is of great interest for researchers. Machining processes are generally modeled via FE tools and based on the requirements of model, it can be performed either mechanically or thermos-mechanically. About the LAM problems, it is basically meaningless to have a model without considering thermal effects. Hence, modeling is performed in two steps where through the first one, a thermal problem is solved to bring the temperature distribution of the work piece as the initial conditions of the next step.... 

Machining chatter is unstable and destructive vibrations that leads to damages to the surface of workpiece and reduces the tool life. These damages have significant effects on surface quality and material removal rate. Many studies have been done on chatter modeling and control in various machining processes. On the other hand, recently, ultrasonic vibrations have been used in many manufacturing processes including cutting to enhance the quality of products. Therefore, it is important to investigate the effect of ultrasonic vibrations on the stability of cutting process. Although a number of advantages such as improved surface roughness of workpiece and reduced machining forces have been... 

Fused silica is an important industrial ceramics with low machinability due to high brittleness, low hardness and high chemical reactivity. Traditional machining of this ceramic is very inefficient. Ultrasonic vibrations assisted grinding of this ceramic could create pieces with high accuracy and good surface quality. The main objective of this thesis is to investigative Ultrasonic vibrations assisted grinding of fused silica. Ultrasonic vibrations with a frequency of 20 kHz and amplitude in the range of 10-40 micron is applied to workpiece during grinding process. It is shown that in the ultrasonic assisted grinding, machining forces decreases by up to 45% and surface roughness reduces by... 

Additive manufacturing (Simply called A.M.) is a group of manufacturing technologies that is developing rapidly and is being used widely in some industries like car manufacturing, Aerospace and producing Biomedical devices, In a way that some researchers believe that A.M. methods will change the future of manufacturing. One of the most important A.M. techniques is the Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) method that is mostly used in industrial applications. A SLS machine has a lot of sub systems and mechanisms that have key role in the Laser Sintering process. One of the mechanisms of SLS machine is the Powder Dispensing mechanism that produce layers of unsintered powder as thin as 100 microns... 

Nanocrystalline materials have received increasing attention during the last decades. Polycrystalline structures with grain sizes less than 100 nm are referred as nanocrystalline (NC). Their mechanical properties differ significantly from polycrystalline structures. As an example, hardness and wear resistance of nanocrystalline structures are higher than those of polycrystalline structures. With the reduction of grain size, hardness increases based on the Hall–Petch relation. However, at the very small grain sizes the Hall–Petch relation breaks down and a fundamental shift takes place in hardening mechanism. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation offers a powerful method for the investigation of...