1. Profile modification—a design approach for increasing the tooth strength in spur gear

   • Shanmugasundaram Sankar
   • Muthusamy Nataraj

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 1 - 10

2. Metaheuristic approaches for the design of machining lines

   • Olga Guschinskaya
   • Evgeny Gurevsky
   • Anton Eremeev

   Original Article 04 December 2010 Pages: 11 - 22

3. Optimization of green sand casting process parameters of a foundry by using Taguchi’s method

   • Sushil Kumar
   • P. S. Satsangi
   • D. R. Prajapati

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 December 2010 Pages: 23 - 34

4. Estimation of solidification time in investment casting process

   • Himadri Chattopadhyay

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 December 2010 Pages: 35 - 38

5. Functional check test for high-speed milling centres of up to five axes

   • José Luis Huertas Talón
   • David Rodrigo Boria
   • Juan José Garde Barace

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 November 2010 Pages: 39 - 51

6. Analytical modeling of ductile-regime machining of tungsten carbide by endmilling

   • Muhammad Arif
   • Mustafizur Rahman
   • Wong Yoke San

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 53 - 64

7. Investigations of flank wear, cutting force, and surface roughness in the machining of Al-6061–TiB₂ in situ metal matrix composites produced by flux-assisted synthesis

   • V. Anandakrishnan
   • A. Mahamani

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 December 2010 Pages: 65 - 73

8. Kernel TIF method for effective material removal control in rotating pitch tool-based optical figuring

   • Hyun-Su Yi
   • Ho-Soon Yang
   • Sug-Whan Kim

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 75 - 81

9. Application of the fuzzy-based Taguchi method for the structural design of drawing dies

   • Bor-Tsuen Lin
   • Chun-Chih Kuo

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 83 - 93

10. Study on forming defects in the rolling process of large aluminum alloy ring via adaptive controlled simulation

    • Jie Zhou
    • Feng-lin Wang
    • Wu-jiao Xu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 95 - 106

11. A FE technique to improve the accuracy of drawbead models and verification with channel drawing experiments of a high-strength steel

    • Mehmet Firat
    • Orhan Cicek

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 December 2010 Pages: 107 - 119

12. An experimental study of contact pressure distribution in panel stamping operations

    • Sripati Sah
    • Robert X. Gao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 121 - 132

13. Three-dimension surface characterization of grinding wheel using white light interferometer

    • Lan Yan
    • Y. M. Rong
    • Zhi Xiong Zhou

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 December 2010 Pages: 133 - 141

14. Analysis of transient temperature and residual thermal stresses in friction stir welding of aluminum alloy 6061-T6 via numerical simulation

    • Mohammad Riahi
    • Hamidreza Nazari

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 December 2010 Pages: 143 - 152

15. Microstructure and mechanical properties of electron beam-welded AISI 409M-grade ferritic stainless steel

    • A. K. Lakshminarayanan
    • V. Balasubramanian
    • G. Madhusudhan Reddy

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 December 2010 Pages: 153 - 162

16. Design, modeling, and testing of a novel 6-DOF micropositioning stage with low profile and low parasitic motion

    • Jun-Hee Moon
    • Heui Jae Pahk
    • Bong-Gu Lee

    Original Article 24 November 2010 Pages: 163 - 176

17. Surface characteristics of ECMed titanium work samples for biomedical applications

    • Shirish D. Dhobe
    • B. Doloi
    • B. Bhattacharyya

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 177 - 188

18. Microstructure of electrochemical micromachining using inert metal mask

    • Donglin Li
    • Di Zhu
    • Hansong Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 189 - 194

19. Development of microelectrodes for electrochemical micromachining

    • Yong Liu
    • Di Zhu
    • Hongbing Yu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 195 - 203

20. Influences of laser welding parameters on the geometric profile of NI-base superalloy Rene 80 weld-bead

    • Mahmood Moradi
    • Majid Ghoreishi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 205 - 215

21. Efficient method of positioning error analysis for aeronautical thin-walled structures multi-state riveting

    • Hui Cheng
    • Yuan Li
    • Jian-bin Su

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 November 2010 Pages: 217 - 233

22. Eutectic bonding of austenitic stainless steel 316L to magnesium alloy AZ31 using copper interlayer

    • Waled M. Elthalabawy
    • Tahir I. Khan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 235 - 241

23. Effect of fluid composition on nanofinishing of single-crystal silicon by magnetic field-assisted finishing process

    • Ajay Sidpara
    • Vijay Kumar Jain

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 January 2011 Pages: 243 - 252

24. Effect of CMP conditioner diamond shape on pad topography and oxide wafer performances

    • Ming Yi Tsai
    • Wei Kai Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 253 - 262

25. Regression modeling and optimization of machinability behavior of glass-coir-polyester hybrid composite using factorial design methodology

    • S. Jayabal
    • U. Natarajan
    • U. Sekar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 263 - 273

26. Measurement and compensation for volumetric positioning errors of CNC machine tools considering thermal effect

    • Hongtao Zhang
    • Jianguo Yang
    • Charles Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 275 - 283

27. Design of a spectrum inspection device based on a novel mechanism for optical filters in wavelength division multiplexing

    • Seung-Cheol Kim
    • Gyung-Bum Kim

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 November 2010 Pages: 285 - 292

28. Quality monitoring of a closed-loop system with parametric uncertainties and external disturbances: a fault detection and isolation approach

    • M. A. Rahim
    • Haris M. Khalid
    • Rajamani Doraiswami

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 293 - 306

29. Surface probing simulator for the evaluation of CMM probe radius correction software

    • Tibet Erkan
    • René Mayer
    • Adam Woźniak

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 307 - 315

30. Ant colony optimization technique for the sequence-dependent flowshop scheduling problem

    • Mohammad Mirabi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 December 2010 Pages: 317 - 326

31. A variable neighborhood binary particle swarm algorithm for cell layout problem

    • Fariborz Jolai
    • Mohammad Taghipour
    • Babak Javadi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 December 2010 Pages: 327 - 339

32. Branch-and-bound and simulated annealing algorithms for a total weighted completion time scheduling with ready times and learning effect

    • Chin-Chia Wu
    • Peng-Hsiang Hsu
    • Wen-Hung Wu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 341 - 353

33. Investigating the robustness of re-scheduling policies with multi-agent system simulation

    • Munir Merdan
    • Thomas Moser
    • Stefan Biffl

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 December 2010 Pages: 355 - 367

34. Mathematical modeling of a vehicle crash test based on elasto-plastic unloading scenarios of spring-mass models

    • Witold Pawlus
    • Hamid Reza Karimi
    • Kjell Gunnar Robbersmyr

    Original Article 10 December 2010 Pages: 369 - 378

35. Tolerance allocation of assemblies using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation and decision support process

    • Abhishek Kumar
    • Seung-Kyum Choi
    • Lorens Goksel

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 December 2010 Pages: 379 - 391

36. Robotic fiber placement process analysis and optimization using response surface method

    • Tauseef Aized
    • Bijan Shirinzadeh

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 November 2010 Pages: 393 - 404

37. Feature-based modeling of automobile gears and manufacturing resources for virtual manufacturing

    • Yanjuan Hu
    • Yiqiang Wang
    • Xiuhua Yuan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 08 December 2010 Pages: 405 - 419