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   • Yonghua Lu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 March 2015 Pages: 1411 - 1423

2. On experimental optimization of friction stir welding of aluminum 6061: understanding processing-microstructure-property relations

   • M. Nourani
   • A. S. Milani
   • S. Yannacopoulos

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 04 March 2015 Pages: 1425 - 1441

3. Experimental and numerical study of grind-hardening-induced residual stresses on AISI 1045 Steel

   • K. Salonitis
   • A. Kolios

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2015 Pages: 1443 - 1452

4. Position-dependent stability analysis of turning with tool and workpiece compliance

   • Andreas Otto
   • Firas A. Khasawneh
   • Günter Radons

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2015 Pages: 1453 - 1463

5. An interoperability CAD assembly sequence plan approach

   • Moez Trigui
   • Riadh BenHadj
   • Nizar Aifaoui

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2015 Pages: 1465 - 1476

6. Online tangential laser profiling of coarse-grained bronze-bonded diamond wheels

   • Genyu Chen
   • Hui Deng
   • Song Cai

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2015 Pages: 1477 - 1482

7. Experimental investigation of the real-time micro-control of the WEDM process

   • Sin Kwon
   • Sunggun Lee
   • Minyang Yang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2015 Pages: 1483 - 1492

8. Supporting product development in the textile industry through the use of a product lifecycle management approach: a preliminary set of guidelines

   • Enrico Vezzetti
   • Marco Alemanni
   • Javier Macheda

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 05 March 2015 Pages: 1493 - 1504

9. Modeling and simulation of critical forces in the manipulation of cylindrical nanoparticles

   • A. H. Korayem
   • A. K. Hoshiar
   • M. H. Korayem

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2015 Pages: 1505 - 1517

10. Research and verification on neutral layer offset of bar in two-roll straightening process

    • Lifeng Ma
    • Ziyong Ma
    • Pengtao Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2015 Pages: 1519 - 1529

11. Ultra-precision face grinding with constant pressure, lapping kinematics, and SiC grinding wheels dressed with overlap factor

    • Arthur Alves Fiocchi
    • Carlos Alberto Fortulan
    • Luiz Eduardo de Angelo Sanchez

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2015 Pages: 1531 - 1543

12. Initial billet temperature influence and location investigation on tool wear in cross wedge rolling

    • Haibo Huang
    • Xing Chen
    • Xuedao Shu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2015 Pages: 1545 - 1556

13. Effects of microstructure and concavity on damage behavior of laser beam welded Ti-2Al-1.5Mn titanium alloy joints

    • Xiuyang Fang
    • Jianxun Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2015 Pages: 1557 - 1568

14. Comparison of methods for chipping quality estimation in turning

    • Juho Ratava
    • Tuomo Lindh
    • Juha Varis

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2015 Pages: 1569 - 1579

15. Thermal simulation modeling of a hydrostatic machine feed platform

    • Teng Liu
    • Weiguo Gao
    • Dawei Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 March 2015 Pages: 1581 - 1595

16. Double-sided laser welding of dissimilar titanium alloys with linear variable thickness

    • Zhenzhen Gui
    • Guoqing Min
    • Peipei Hu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1597 - 1606

17. Comparative study of the slurry erosion behavior of laser cladded Ni-WC coating modified by nanocrystalline WC and La₂O₃

    • Parisa Farahmand
    • Thomas Frosell
    • Radovan Kovacevic

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1607 - 1621

18. Thermomechanical processing of a Nb–Ti–V pipeline steel

    • M. Rakhshkhorshid
    • H. Monajati Zadeh
    • S. H. Hashemi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1623 - 1631

19. Sparc assisted electrochemical machining: a novel possibility for microdrilling into electrical conductive materials using the electrochemical discharge phenomenon

    • Harry Krötz
    • Konrad Wegener

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1633 - 1643

20. Laser-assisted milling of Ti-6Al-4V with the consideration of surface integrity

    • G. K. Hedberg
    • Y. C. Shin
    • L. Xu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1645 - 1658

21. Physics-based analysis of minimum quantity lubrication grinding

    • Yamin Shao
    • Beizhi Li
    • Steven Y. Liang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1659 - 1670

22. Identification of cutting force coefficients for the linear and nonlinear force models in end milling process using average forces and optimization technique methods

    • Khaled A. M Adem
    • Roger Fales
    • A. Sherif El-Gizawy

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1671 - 1687

23. A CNC grinding method and envelope residual model for face gear

    • Hui Guo
    • Xiongqi Peng
    • Shuyan Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1689 - 1698

24. An experimental study on milling of high-volume fraction SiC_P/Al composites with PCD tools of different grain size

    • Yinfei Yang
    • Qi Wu
    • Rabin Shrestha

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1699 - 1705

25. Chance constraint-based multi-objective stochastic model for supplier selection

    • Remica Aggarwal
    • S. P. Singh

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 March 2015 Pages: 1707 - 1719

26. ELID groove grinding of ball-bearing raceway and the accuracy durability of the grinding wheel

    • M. L. Wu
    • Chengzu Ren
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 08 March 2015 Pages: 1721 - 1731

27. The new hybrid rule-based tool to evaluate processes in manufacturing

    • A. Macioł
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 08 March 2015 Pages: 1733 - 1745

28. Optimal design of AS/RS storage systems with three-class-based assignment strategy under single and dual command operations

    • Marco Bortolini
    • Riccardo Accorsi
    • Alberto Regattieri

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 08 March 2015 Pages: 1747 - 1759

29. Numerical and experimental investigation of roll-forging of automotive front axle beam

    • Wuhao Zhuang
    • Lin Hua
    • Liying Dong

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 March 2015 Pages: 1761 - 1777

30. Acceptance sampling plans for multi-stage process based on time-truncated test for Weibull distribution

    • Muhammad Aslam
    • Muhammad Azam
    • Chi-Hyuck Jun

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 March 2015 Pages: 1779 - 1785

31. The ridge method in a radial basis function neural network

    • Rolando J. Praga-Alejo
    • David S. González-González
    • Luis M. Torres-Treviño

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 March 2015 Pages: 1787 - 1796

32. Energy-saving optimal control over heating of continuous cast billets

    • B. N. Parsunkin
    • S. M. Andreev
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 March 2015 Pages: 1797 - 1803

33. Fast analysis on metal flow in isothermal local loading process for multi-rib component using slab method

    • Da-Wei Zhang
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 March 2015 Pages: 1805 - 1820

34. Cost-constrained low-carbon product design

    • Bin He
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 March 2015 Pages: 1821 - 1828

35. Precision micro EDM based on real-time monitoring and electrode wear compensation

    • Van Quang Nguyen
    • Thanh Hung Duong
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 March 2015 Pages: 1829 - 1838

36. A precision generating grinding method for face gear using CBN wheel

    • Yanzhong Wang
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 March 2015 Pages: 1839 - 1848

37. Numerical and intelligent analysis of silicon nitride laser grooving

    • Pedram Parandoush
    • Altab Hossain
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 March 2015 Pages: 1849 - 1859

38. Intelligent system for prediction of liquid metal breakouts under a mold of slab continuous casting machines

    • S. I. Luk’yanov
    • E. S. Suspitsyn
    • D. V. Shvidchenko

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 March 2015 Pages: 1861 - 1868

39. Novel multi-level modeling method for complex forging processes on hydraulic press machines

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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 March 2015 Pages: 1869 - 1880

40. Development of spiroid worm gear drive having arched profile in axial section and a new technology of spiroid worm manufacturing with lathe center displacement

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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 March 2015 Pages: 1881 - 1892

41. Developing a fuzzy multivariate CUSUM control chart to monitor multinomial linguistic quality characteristics

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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 March 2015 Pages: 1893 - 1903

42. Grain size effect of thickness/average grain size on mechanical behaviour, fracture mechanism and constitutive model for phosphor bronze foil

    • Zhi Fang
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1905 - 1914

43. Surface-opening feature measurement using coordinate-measuring machines

    • Ye Li
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1915 - 1929

44. A model to describe stick–slip transition time during ultrasonic consolidation

    • Gregory S. Kelly
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    • John W. Gillespie Jr.

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1931 - 1937

45. The inducement of residual stress through deep rolling of AISI 1060 steel and its subsequent relaxation under cyclic loading

    • A. M. Abrão
    • B. Denkena
    • T. Mörke

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1939 - 1947

46. Cutting force, chip formation, and tool wear during the laser-assisted machining a near-alpha titanium alloy BTi-6431S

    • Yanfeng Gao
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    • Matthew S. Dargusch

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1949 - 1960

47. Simulation and optimization of hot extrusion process to produce rectangular waveguides

    • M. Sharififar
    • S. A. A. Akbari Mousavi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1961 - 1973

48. Feasibility of optimising bicycle helmet design safety through the use of additive manufactured TPE cellular structures

    • S. P. Soe
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1975 - 1982

49. A multi-sensor approach for rapid and precise digitization of free-form surface in reverse engineering

    • Keqing Lu
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 March 2015 Pages: 1983 - 1994

50. Tribological behaviors of two micro textured surfaces generated by vibrating milling under boundary lubricated sliding

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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 March 2015 Pages: 1995 - 2002