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Nowadays, microgyroscopes are among the most important products of MEMS. The production of small, precise and inexpensive gyroscopes has become possible as the result of recent developments in fabrication technology. In this thesis it is intended to introduce a new method for manufacturing more precise microgyroscopes regarding manufacture facilities. Using this new method, sensitivity and resistance of microgyroscopes are increased against noises which are primarily caused by vibration and rotation about undesirable axes. The rotational movement imposed on the gyro is detected through fluid flow within its torus channel. This transformation facilitates the measurement of the initial motion.... 

The fiber-reinforced composite materials possess advantage for structural purpose in various industries. Delamination is recognized as one of the major causes of damage during drilling of fiber reinforced composites, which not only reduces the structural integrity, but also has the potential for long-term performance deterioration. It is difficult to produce precise quality holes with high efficiency by conventional drilling method. Drilling is frequently applied in production cycle while the anisotropy and nonhomogeneity of composite materials affect the chip deformation and machining behavior during drilling. In this thesis, a new non-traditional drilling technology is presented for solve... 

Superalloys are widely used in aerospace and power industries due to the good performance at high temperatures for examples gas turbines, steam turbines and aircraft components. In addition to the turbines cobalt-base superalloys are used in medical implants such as knee and hip joints. The main strengths of the superalloys are heat-resistant, retaining their high mechanical and chemical properties at high temperatures, high melting temperatures, high corrosion resistance, resistance to thermal fatigue, thermal shock, creep, and erosion. Because of difficult to machine properties of superalloys, grinding is one of the effective methods for machining superalloys. The surface integrity of the... 

U-shaped assembly lines usually are more effective than straight lines. Therefore special attention has been paid to u-shaped line balancing problem in recent years. On the other hand most articles on the line balancing problems are investigated for the first time. However, within the lifetime of an ALB, the balancing problems do not occur only once prior to its construction, but rather continuously as rebalancing. For example whenever the demand structure or production technology changes or producing seasonal products, the ALB needs to be reconfigured. So many balancing issues in the real world are related to re-balancing of production lines.
Therefore in this study, U-shaped assembly... 

Delamination is a major problem in drilling of fiber-reinforced composite materials. Thrust force is an important factor leading to propagation of delamination during drilling process. One of effective methods to reduce machining forces is application of ultrasonic vibrations. In this study ultrasonic assisted drilling is applied to reduce thrust force in drilling of GFRP laminates. In order to conduct experiments a setup is designed and fabricated to apply both vibrations and rotation to drill bits. Using Taguchi method, a set of experiments is conducted with feed rate, spindle speed, point angle and ultrasonic vibration amplitude as control factors. The results show that applying... 

Lameness in dairy cattle is a crucial welfare issue after infertility and mastitis in dairy industry, and over the years scientists are attempting to present a detection method. In recent it is attracting more attention to make the identification and discrimination of sounds and lames systematic and automatic. Right now, the most hopeful results have been obtained through the measurement of Ground Reaction Forces (GRF) of hooves, and analysis of load distribution between four legs, which seems applicable for wide use in dairy industry.However, the accuracy, validity, and reliability of discrimination is still far from an acceptable point, that is because of a great lack in understanding... 

Drilling super alloys with a good hole quality and acceptable surface finish is a constant challenge in modern industries dealing with such materials. Ultrasonic assisted drilling is a modern and nonconventional method of drilling which has attracted many researchers attention recently. In this study deep drilling on Inconel 738 LC is done using ultrasonic assisted drilling technique and the results are compared with those of Electro Discharge Machininng or EDM method. The results show that Ultrasonic Assisted Drilling or UAD is an appropriate alternative for EDM of Inconel. The whole process time is decrease dimensional accuracy is improved and surface roughness is decreased significantly.... 

Hydrocephalus is a desease which causes by unnatural accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain ventricles. One of the most convenient ways to treat hydrocephalus disease is to use a brain shunt which consists of ventricular catheter, valve and distal catheter. Ventricular catheter obstruction is the main reason for shunt replacement in the human brain. This project attempts to remove obstruction of the ventricular catheter by mechanical forces. For this purpose, a magnet and a variable magnetic field suggested to apply mechanical force on a brush sliding on the shunt. On the inner surface of the ring-shaped magnet, brushes have been embedded and the magnet is placed on the outer... 

Ultrasonically assisted machining process has been introduced as an effective solution to improve machining quality of mechanical parts. This study aims to reduce the drilling induced delamination to increase mechanical properties of CFRP laminates. Delamination decreases the strength of laminates under static and dynamic loads. Drilling parameters (feed and spindle speed) and ultrasonic vibrations amplitude are chosen as design experiment factors. Taguchi design of experiments method is used to study the effect of input factors on drilling thrust force, delamination factor and residual strength of drilled laminates. Input factors are in three levels and Taguchi L9 array is utilized. To... 

Ultrasonic assisted grinding is a novel method for improving the grinding process of difficult-to-cut materials. In the present research a novel set-up has been designed and manufactured for utilizing ultrasonic vibrations in cylindrical grinding. The designed ultrasonic head vibrates a rotating workpiece in axial direction. An alumina-zirconia ceramic (AZ90) has been selected as the workpiece material. Energy aspects and workpiece surface characteristics of ultrasonic assisted cylindrical grinding (UACG) and conventional cylindrical grinding (CG) processes have been analytically modeled and corresponding grinding experiments have been performed. The combined kinematics of the cylindrical... 

The issues relevant to lubricants in industry, construction and production processes such as machining and grinding have been recently taken into serious consideration. Unlike the positive effects of applying lubricants on machining forces, chip formation, thermal defects which lead to force reduction, lower power consumption and surface quality improvement, its conventional usage has adverse effects such as environmental problems, high cost of high volume lubricant application as well as recycling problems. Therefore, attention was drawn toward chip removal under dry or near dry conditions and as thermal defects such as surface burning is important particularly in grinding, grinding under... 

One of the most important parts of designing turbine blades is machining (milling) process of blade root. There is some implementing problem in material removal processing by milling. Because of low heat transferring of inconel 738 in machine parts there is huge amount of heat which cause high temperature in machine and burning, which reduces the efficiency of milling.One of the common way to reduce the temperature of machine is using coolant fluids, which increases expenses and makes environmental pollution, so it is not completely efficient as an industrial work. In this paper Whit using MQL and some new lubricant had been observed more efficient condition in milling process. The main goal... 

Today, titanium and its alloys are the most widely used metals in manufacturing of biomedical implants. But unfortunately, most of bulk (nonporous) titanium alloys implants are facing problems such as stress shielding. If titanium is produced in such a way that has sufficient amount of porosity on the surface and inside of the sample, it provides sufficient space for connection and proliferation of new bone tissues and transmission of body fluids. However, machining of porous titanium causes pore closing. Due to the importance of recognizing the machining mechanism of materials such as porous titanium for manufacturing of implants, in this study micromachining of porous titanium with the... 

Vertical milling machine is one of the most common machine tools for precision parts production. The static deflection of the machine tool and thus the displacement of the tool, is due to the high machining forces is the most important factor in reducing the dimensional Precision of the work piece. Also, the overlap of the frequency range of operation with the natural frequencies causes an undesirable resonance phenomenon. Reducing the strain energy of the column and thus the reducing the displacement of the tool, and increasing the first natural frequency of the milling machine, given that the frequency range of operating is below the first frequency, is a desirable change that can be... 

The aim of this study was to compare the effect of different cooling conditions (dry, flood, mql) on machined surface parameters (smoothness and protrusion of fibers) and tool erosion in carbon fiber reinforced plastic composite materials (CFRP) in the presence of ultrasonic vibrations or without it. Is. Today, carbon fiber reinforced plastic composite materials or CFRP have become one of the most widely used materials in industry due to their strength and light properties. For example, these materials have been used in the manufacture of products from commercial aircraft to shoes, tennis rackets, golf clubs, fishing rods, etc. The combination of carbon fibers woven with resin in alternating... 

Nowadays, processes with the ability to machine advanced materials are very much needed by industries. Therefore, compare of a rotary ultrasonic-assisted machining process with a conventional machining process is carried out in this study. In order to evaluate this process, the milling and drilling processes are conducted on the carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite and titanium materials where cutting forces, surface roughness, and fiber pull-out are selected as critical factors for analysis. As a result, it is seen that rotary ultrasonic-assisted machining has a good performance in the milling and drilling of advanced materials. In particular, it is shown that fiber pull-out is... 

The aim of this thesis is to provide a correct explanation of technological determinism. According to this theory, technology has changed our lifestyle and we have to adapt ourselves to it, which is obvious to us even without knowing about this theory. But is this really the essence of technology? Or does the user community act like this when faced with technology? This is the question that we seek to answer in this thesis. For this purpose, we first express different readings of technological determinism, and some theories aligned and not aligned with it. Then we address the dual nature of technology and show that "physical structure" and "the function intended by the designer" together... 

This study investigates the application of ionic liquids as a lubricant in the minimal lubrication system for P20 steel drilling. due to the wide use of cutting fluids in machining processes, it is important to research in this regard to reduce emissions of pollutants, reduce friction, and consequently reduce energy consumption and machining costs. in recent years, ionic liquids have been considered as a new lubricant due to the structure and composition of the special chemical in the fields of: bearings, metal forming, etc. however, in the application of ionic liquids as fluids In the process of machining, very little research has been done. Therefore, deserves that examining the effect of... 

Traditional tool life models and wear prediction do not take into account the variation inherent in metal cutting processes. These lead to additional manufacturing costs. This research presents a stochastic method for both tool life and tool wear prediction. In the first part, Bayesian inference is applied to estimate the two model constants of Taylor tool life prediction model using a discrete grid method. Tool wear tests are performed using an uncoated M42 HSS tool and AISI 1018 carbon steel work material. Test results are used to update initial beliefs about the constants and the updated beliefs are then used to predict tool life using a probability density function (pdf). Finally, the... 

One of the main arguments between scientific realists and scientific anti-realists is about observability. As a prominent anti-realist, van Fraassen and his theory of constructive empiricism and his views on observability and the use of scientific instruments, have been the subject of many debates. He believes that observation is the sole path to knowledge and observation is only possible through unaided human eye, so seeing through scientific instruments like microscopes does not count as observation, therefore the information gained from these procedures are not necessarily true.This thesis not only examines van Fraassen’s outlooks on the matter, but also examines his opponents’ view and...