1. Improving the quality of continuously cast slabs: by means of the pinch roll drive of the horizontal part of a continuous casting machine

   • A. E. Vasiliev
   • S. I. Lukyanov
   • A. L. Karyakin

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 January 2018 Pages: 1 - 9

2. Real-time product quality control system using optimized Gabor filter bank

   • Şaban Öztürk
   • Bayram Akdemir

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 January 2018 Pages: 11 - 19

3. Advance on friction of stamping forming

   • Gui Li
   • Xiaoyu Long
   • Zhongkai Liang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 January 2018 Pages: 21 - 38

4. A next-generation IoT-based collaborative framework for electronics assembly

   • Rajesh Krishnamurthy
   • J. Cecil

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 January 2018 Pages: 39 - 52

5. Optimal riser design method based on geometric reasoning method and fruit fly optimization algorithm in CAD

   • Tong Wang
   • Yajun Yin
   • Min Wang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 January 2018 Pages: 53 - 65

6. Tool condition monitoring of aluminum oxide grinding wheel using AE and fuzzy model

   • Felipe Aparecido Alexandre
   • Wenderson Nascimento Lopes
   • José Cláudio Lopes

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 January 2018 Pages: 67 - 79

7. Investigation of temperature distribution in orthogonal cutting through dual-zone contact model on the rake face

   • Esin Cakir
   • Emre Ozlu
   • Erhan Budak

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2018 Pages: 81 - 89

8. Development and analysis of energy consumption map for high-speed machining of Al 6061-T6 alloy

   • Salman Sagheer Warsi
   • Syed Husain Imran Jaffery
   • Liaqat Ali

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2018 Pages: 91 - 102

9. Technology of ablation milling by fast-moving electrode

   • Donglei Yang
   • Mingbo Qiu
   • Zhidong Liu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2018 Pages: 103 - 109

10. Combined machining of SiC/Al composites based on blasting erosion arc machining and CNC milling

    • Jipeng Chen
    • Lin Gu
    • Wansheng Zhao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2018 Pages: 111 - 121

11. Study of reliability index for high-density polyethylene based on pipe standard dimension ratio and fracture toughness limits

    • Latifa Alimi
    • Kamel Chaoui
    • Salaheddine Azzouz

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 January 2018 Pages: 123 - 136

12. Prediction of cutting force in five-axis flat-end milling

    • Z. C. Wei
    • M. L. Guo
    • S. X. Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 January 2018 Pages: 137 - 152

13. Fabrication and characterization of a bimetallic Al/Cu tube using the tube sinking process

    • Jalil Salehi
    • Ahmad Rezaeian
    • Mohammad Reza Toroghinejad

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 January 2018 Pages: 153 - 159

14. A staged haptic rendering approach for virtual assembly of bolted joints in mechanical assembly

    • Jing-Rong Li
    • Jia-Wu Liu
    • Guang-Hua Hu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 January 2018 Pages: 161 - 171

15. Ultra-precision diamond turning of optical silicon—a review

    • Lukman N. Abdulkadir
    • Khaled Abou-El-Hossein
    • Tirimisiyu A. Olaniyan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 173 - 208

16. Effect of droplet impact on molten pool dynamics in hybrid laser-MIG welding of aluminum alloy

    • Xuyang Chen
    • Gang Yu
    • Haibin Miao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 209 - 222

17. Build orientation optimization for additive manufacturing of functionally graded material objects

    • Prakhar Jaiswal
    • Jayankumar Patel
    • Rahul Rai

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 223 - 235

18. Development of a tool-workpiece thermocouple system for comparative study of the cutting temperature when high-speed ultrasonic vibration cutting Ti-6Al-4V alloys with and without cutting fluids

    • Xiangyu Zhang
    • Zhenghui Lu
    • Deyuan Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 237 - 246

19. Theoretical modeling and analysis for tensioning stress formation mechanism of laser shock tensioning process

    • Bo Li
    • Zhankuan Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 247 - 256

20. Optimum manufacturing parameters in selective laser sintering of PA12 with white cement additives

    • Saleh Ahmed Aldahash

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 257 - 270

21. A STEP-based machining data model for autonomous process generation of intelligent CNC controller

    • Wendan Zhu
    • Tianliang Hu
    • Chengrui Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 271 - 285

22. A novel approach for chatter online monitoring using coefficient of variation in machining process

    • Jian Ye
    • Pingfa Feng
    • Shuanggang Huang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 287 - 297

23. Effect of heat input on failure mode and connection mechanism of parallel micro-gap resistance welding for copper wire

    • S. Cong
    • W. W. Zhang
    • Y. H. Tian

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2018 Pages: 299 - 306

24. Torsion analysis of the anisotropic behavior of FDM technology

    • Cesar Omar Balderrama-Armendariz
    • Eric MacDonald
    • Aide Maldonado-Macias

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 January 2018 Pages: 307 - 317

25. Die structure and its trial manufacture for thread and spline synchronous rolling process

    • Da-Wei Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 January 2018 Pages: 319 - 325

26. Experimental study on hybrid machining of laser irradiation and grinding for sharpening of a CVD diamond micro-milling tool

    • Kaihua Yang
    • Yi Xia
    • Yuqi Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 January 2018 Pages: 327 - 336

27. Part re-registration during process interruption of electron beam melting additive manufacturing

    • Mohammad Shojib Hossain
    • Jorge Mireles
    • Ryan B. Wicker

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 January 2018 Pages: 337 - 344

28. Effect of ultrasound vibration on the ejection friction in microinjection molding

    • Davide Masato
    • Marco Sorgato
    • Giovanni Lucchetta

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 January 2018 Pages: 345 - 358

29. Effects of process parameters on electromagnetic sheet free forming of aluminium alloy

    • Huijuan Ma
    • Liang Huang
    • Fei Ma

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 January 2018 Pages: 359 - 369

30. Hot compression behavior and microstructure of selectively laser-melted IN718 alloy

    • Ahmad Mostafa
    • Davood Shahriari
    • Mamoun Medraj

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 January 2018 Pages: 371 - 385

31. Ultrasonic assisted high rotational speed diamond machining of dental glass ceramics

    • Xiao-Fei Song
    • Jia-Jun Yang
    • Ling Yin

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 22 January 2018 Pages: 387 - 399

32. Analysis-effective induction efficiency of laser in pulse laser-GTA welding of titanium alloy

    • Liming Liu
    • Jipeng Shi
    • Xinkun Xu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 January 2018 Pages: 401 - 410

33. Influence of electrochemical micromachining process parameters during fabrication of varactor micropattern

    • Sandip Kunar
    • Subrata Mahata
    • B. Bhattacharyya

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 January 2018 Pages: 411 - 427

34. Elimination of 3D micro-electrode’s step effect and applying it in micro-EDM

    • Bin Xu
    • Xiao-yu Wu
    • Deng-ji Guo

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 January 2018 Pages: 429 - 438

35. Fatigue reliability prediction of rubber parts based on Wöhler diagrams

    • S. Belkhiria
    • R. Seddik
    • R. Fathallah

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 January 2018 Pages: 439 - 450

36. Uniform concentrating design and mold machining of Fresnel lens for photovoltaic systems

    • Xing Gao
    • Yong Li
    • Chaojiang Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 January 2018 Pages: 451 - 460

37. The thermal-mechanical behavior of WTaMoNb high-entropy alloy via selective laser melting (SLM): experiment and simulation

    • Hang Zhang
    • Wang Xu
    • Dichen Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 461 - 474

38. A review on laser beam welding of copper alloys

    • S. T. Auwal
    • S. Ramesh
    • S. M. Manladan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 475 - 490

39. Effects of processing parameters on underfill defects in deep penetration laser welding of thick plates

    • Mingjun Zhang
    • Kun Tang
    • Genyu Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 491 - 501

40. A novel method towards approximation of the temperature distribution in electric discharge machining of Ti-6Al-4V by up-scaling approach

    • Hamid Reza Fazli Shahri
    • Ramezanali Mahdavinejad

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 503 - 520

41. An adaptive direct slicing method based on tilted voxel of two-photon polymerization

    • Xu Zheng
    • Kai Cheng
    • Xian Jing

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 521 - 530

42. A Nash bargaining model for flow shop scheduling problem under uncertainty: a case study from tire manufacturing in Iran

    • Ghasem Safari
    • Ashkan Hafezalkotob
    • Mohammad Khalilzadeh

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 531 - 546

43. A novel dynamic contour error estimation and control in high-speed CNC

    • Shiwei Pi
    • Qiang Liu
    • Qitong Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 547 - 560

44. Numerical study on the effect of mechanical properties variability in sheet metal forming processes

    • P. A. Prates
    • A. S. Adaixo
    • J. V. Fernandes

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 561 - 580

45. Cyber acoustic analysis of additively manufactured objects

    • Thomas Mativo
    • Colleen Fritz
    • Ismail Fidan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 581 - 586

46. The feasibility research on shot-peen forming of the novel fiber metal laminates based on aluminum-lithium alloy

    • Huaguan Li
    • Wei Zhang
    • Jie Tao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 587 - 596

47. Prediction and verification analysis of grinding force in the single grain grinding process of fused silica glass

    • Yunhua Su
    • Bin Lin
    • Zhongchen Cao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 24 January 2018 Pages: 597 - 606

48. Experiment and analytical model of laser milling process in soluble oil

    • Viboon Tangwarodomnukun
    • Chaiya Dumkum

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 January 2018 Pages: 607 - 621

49. The propagation and accumulation of dimensional shrinkage for ring-to-ring structure in investment casting

    • Donghong Wang
    • Anping Dong
    • Fei Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 January 2018 Pages: 623 - 629

50. Plastic deformation-based energy consumption modelling for machining

    • Yue Meng
    • Lihui Wang
    • Xianli Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 25 January 2018 Pages: 631 - 641