1. Investigation of the milling stability based on modified variable cutting force coefficients

   • Xianli Liu
   • Haining Gao
   • Lin Yang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 February 2018 Pages: 2991 - 3002

2. Multi-task scheduling of distributed 3D printing services in cloud manufacturing

   • Longfei Zhou
   • Lin Zhang
   • Yingying Xiao

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 February 2018 Pages: 3003 - 3017

3. Study on volt-ampere characteristics of spark discharge for transistor resistor pulse power of EDM

   • Yin-Sheng Fan
   • Ji-Cheng Bai

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 February 2018 Pages: 3019 - 3031

4. Acquisition and optimization of weld trajectory and pose information for robot welding of spatial corrugated web sheet based on laser sensing

   • Xizhang Chen
   • Jie Yu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3033 - 3041

5. Investigation of foamed cathode through-mask electrochemical micromachining developed for uniform texturing on metallic cylindrical surface

   • Pingmei Ming
   • Chenhao Zhao
   • Liang Yan

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3043 - 3056

6. Study on failure mechanism of mechanical clinching in aluminium sheet materials

   • Yue Zhang
   • Xiaocong He
   • Andrew Ball

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3057 - 3068

7. Multi-response optimization on single-point incremental forming of hyperbolic shape Al-1050/Cu bimetal using response surface methodology

   • M. Honarpisheh
   • M. Mohammadi Jobedar
   • I. Alinaghian

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3069 - 3080

8. Study on the grinding behavior of laser-structured grinding in silicon nitride ceramic

   • X. H. Zhang
   • D. D. Wen
   • J. Jiang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3081 - 3091

9. Electron beam melting of gamma titanium aluminide and investigating the effect of EBM layer orientation on milling performance

   • Saqib Anwar
   • Naveed Ahmed
   • Abdulrahman M. Alahmari

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3093 - 3107

10. Alternative method to determine parting direction automatically for generating core and cavity of two-plate mold using B-rep of visibility map

    • Mursyidah Md Yusof
    • Mohd Salman Abu Mansor

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3109 - 3126

11. Multi-objective optimization of VBHF in sheet metal deep-drawing using Kriging, MOABC, and set pair analysis

    • Yixiong Feng
    • Runjie Lu
    • Wenjia Mo

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 February 2018 Pages: 3127 - 3138

12. Friction stir butt welding thin aluminum alloy sheets

    • Yumei Yue
    • Guoqiang Wang
    • Dejun Yan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 March 2018 Pages: 3139 - 3147

13. Nonplanar slicing and path generation methods for robotic additive manufacturing

    • Gang Zhao
    • Guocai Ma
    • Wenlei Xiao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 March 2018 Pages: 3149 - 3159

14. A novel machining of multi irregular surface using improved noncircular turning method

    • Yong Zhang
    • Yu Huang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 March 2018 Pages: 3161 - 3174

15. Depth of thermal penetration in straight grinding

    • J. L. González-Santander
    • H. Espinós-Morató

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 March 2018 Pages: 3175 - 3190

16. Fabrication of graphene/nickel composite microcomponents using electroforming

    • Meng Li
    • Jian Liu
    • Kyle Jiang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 01 March 2018 Pages: 3191 - 3196

17. Effect of electropulsing on springback during V-bending of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy sheet

    • Dongwei Ao
    • Xingrong Chu
    • Jun Gao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 March 2018 Pages: 3197 - 3207

18. Electric assistance hot incremental sheet forming: an integral heating design

    • Zhengfang Li
    • Shihong Lu
    • Zhixiang Mao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 March 2018 Pages: 3209 - 3215

19. Experimental research on improving accuracy of electrochemical machining of deep narrow grooves

    • Wang Feng
    • Zhao Jianshe
    • Tian Zongjun

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 March 2018 Pages: 3217 - 3225

20. Effect of hardening on the machinability of C22 steel under drilling operations using twist HSS drill bit

    • N. Mokas
    • L. Boulanouar
    • L. Gautier

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 March 2018 Pages: 3227 - 3234

21. Dynamic digital fringe projection technique for measuring the warpage of unpainted PBGA packages and boards

    • Sungbum Kang
    • I. Charles Ume

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 March 2018 Pages: 3235 - 3249

22. Ductile-brittle transition behavior in the ultrasonic vibration-assisted internal grinding of silicon carbide ceramics

    • Jianguo Cao
    • Meng Nie
    • Jianyong Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 March 2018 Pages: 3251 - 3262

23. Improvement of the useful life of the machining tool with the carbonitrides multilayer system

    • J. C. Caicedo
    • O. A. Zambrano
    • W. Aperador

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 02 March 2018 Pages: 3263 - 3277

24. An effective adaptive dynamic evolution computing approach of roughing process for part with complex pockets

    • Huang Rui
    • Zhang Shusheng

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 March 2018 Pages: 3279 - 3293

25. Numerical calculation and experimental evaluation of counter-gravity investment casting of Ti-48Al-2Cr-2Nb alloy

    • Jieren Yang
    • Hu Wang
    • Rui Hu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 03 March 2018 Pages: 3295 - 3309

    

26. Effects of the relative tool rotation direction on formability during the incremental forming of titanium sheets

    • E. H. Uheida
    • G. A. Oosthuizen
    • P. A. Hugo

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 03 March 2018 Pages: 3311 - 3319

27. An experimental investigation into roughness transfer in skin-pass rolling of steel strips

    • Bilal Çolak
    • Naci Kurgan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 March 2018 Pages: 3321 - 3330

28. A layers-overlapping strategy for robotic wire and arc additive manufacturing of multi-layer multi-bead components with homogeneous layers

    • Yongzhe Li
    • Qinglin Han
    • Imre Horváth

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 March 2018 Pages: 3331 - 3344

29. Prediction of chatter considering the effect of axial cutting depth on cutting force coefficients in end milling

    • Guang Yu
    • Liping Wang
    • Jun Wu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2018 Pages: 3345 - 3354

30. A numerical-analytical approach to predict white and dark layer thickness of hard machining

    • S. Arfaoui
    • F. Zemzemi
    • Z. Tourki

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2018 Pages: 3355 - 3364

31. Determination of optimal measurement configurations for self-calibrating a robotic visual inspection system with multiple point constraints

    • Chengyi Yu
    • Xiaobo Chen
    • Juntong Xi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2018 Pages: 3365 - 3375

32. Damage reconstruction from tri-dexel data for laser-aided repairing of metallic components

    • Xinchang Zhang
    • Wei Li
    • Frank Liou

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2018 Pages: 3377 - 3390

33. Verification of turning insert specifications through three-dimensional vision system

    • Geng-Hao Ping
    • Jui-Hung Chien
    • Pei-Ju Chiang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3391 - 3401

34. High-performance parallel hexapod-robotic light abrasive grinding using real-time tool deflection compensation and constant resultant force control

    • Masoud Latifinavid
    • Abdulhamit Donder
    • Erhan ilhan Konukseven

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3403 - 3416

35. Design and development of an extrusion system for 3D printing biopolymer pellets

    • Sean Whyman
    • Khalid Mahmood Arif
    • Johan Potgieter

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3417 - 3428

36. Research on surface generating model in ultrasonic vibration-assisted grinding

    • Yan Wang
    • Zhiqiang Fu
    • Shangqian Lu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3429 - 3436

37. Prediction and experimental validation of temperature rise in ductile mode end milling of soda-lime glass

    • Mst. Nasima Bagum
    • Mohamed Konneh
    • A. K. M. Nurul Amin

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3437 - 3447

38. Effects of nano-cutting fluids on tool performance and chip morphology during machining Inconel 718

    • H. Hegab
    • U. Umer
    • H A. Kishawy

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3449 - 3458

39. Additive manufacturing functionally graded titanium structures with selective closed cell layout and controlled morphology

    • Esmat Sheydaeian
    • Ehsan Toyserkani

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3459 - 3469

40. How convection on the substrate affects the thermal history of the build in direct laser deposition—finite element analysis

    • E. A. Hochmann
    • I. Salehinia

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3471 - 3480

41. Finite element simulation on investigations, modeling, and multiobjective optimization for clinch joining process design accounting for process parameters and design constraints

    • Xiao Wang
    • Xinding Li
    • Huixia Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3481 - 3501

42. An improved full-discretization method for chatter stability prediction

    • Yuebang Dai
    • Hongkun Li
    • Baitian Hao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3503 - 3510

43. Formability and fracture of metallic sheet materials in microscale punching processes using laser-accelerated flyer impact

    • Ji-Hye You
    • Hong Seok Kim

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2018 Pages: 3511 - 3520

44. Three-dimensional topography modelling of regular prismatic grain coated abrasive discs

    • Adhithya Plato Sidharth Arunachalam
    • Sridhar Idapalapati

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2018 Pages: 3521 - 3532

45. Rolling contact fatigue performance evaluation of Ti–6Al–4V parts processed by selective laser melting

    • Peng Zhang
    • David Z. Zhang
    • Zhongfa Mao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2018 Pages: 3533 - 3543

46. Influence of relative tool sharpness (RTS) on different ultra-precision machining regimes of Mg alloy

    • M. Azizur Rahman
    • Mustafizur Rahman
    • A. Senthil Kumar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2018 Pages: 3545 - 3563

47. An investigation into surface integrity of AISI P20 machined under the influence of spindle forced vibrations

    • Sadaf Zahoor
    • Nadeem Ahmad Mufti
    • Adeel Shehzad

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2018 Pages: 3565 - 3574

48. Serrated chip formation mechanism analysis using a modified model based on the material defect theory in machining Ti-6Al-4 V alloy

    • Jiangtao Che
    • Tianfeng Zhou
    • Xibin Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 08 March 2018 Pages: 3575 - 3584

49. Free-bending process characteristics and forming process design of copper tubular components

    • Xunzhong Guo
    • Hao Xiong
    • Kai Jin

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 March 2018 Pages: 3585 - 3601

50. Finishing of Ge nanomachined surfaces for X-ray crystal optics

    • Matej Jergel
    • Yuriy Halahovets
    • Eva Majková

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 March 2018 Pages: 3603 - 3617