Niobium based super alloys are an unusual class of metallic materials with an exceptional combination of high temperature strength, toughness, and resistance to degradation in corrosive or oxidizing environments. The focus of present work was to study the effect of cutting parameters – speed, feed and depth of cut on the machinability of Niobium C-103 under dry machining condition using respons...

Abstract Lumbar puncture (LP) procedures are commonly performed for diagnostic purposes by neurologists and emergency physicians, intrathecal local anesthesthetic administration spinal anesthesia anesthesiologists. Complications include post-dural headache, meningitis, epidural hematoma neurological injury. A recent article Ertas et al in the Journal of Clinical Neurology Neurosurgery highlight...

This paper presents the performance evaluation of three different cutting fluids used in a minimal quantity lubrication (MQL) system. The MQL system, developed in-house at the University of Malaya, was capable of delivering high velocity cutting fluid in narrow pulsed jet forms at a rate of 2 ml/min and a pressure of 20 MPa. The three cutting fluids chosen were neat oil, soluble oil and semi-sy...

Optimization of process parameters is the key step in response surface methods to achieve high quality without cost inflation. The multi-response optimization of the machining parameters viz, chip-tool interface temperature, main cutting force and feed force on lathe turning of En-31 steel as alloy steel using RSM with grey relational analysis is reported. A grey relational grade obtained from ...

4 Some specific cutting-plane methods 12 4.1 Bisection method on R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.2 Center of gravity method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.3 MVE cutting-plane method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.4 Chebyshev center cutting-plane method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.5 ...

In the mining and civil engineering industries point-attack picks (conical picks) are extensively employed on mechanical excavators such as roadheaders, continuous miners and longwall shearers to cut relatively harder rocks/coals compared with radial picks. They are more durable than radial picks, and can economically cut intact rocks having up to around 120 MPa uniaxial compressive strength at...

Laser cutting is a complex multi-input multi-output machining process. To satisfy different requirements regarding laser cut quality it is necessary to determine optimal laser cutting conditions. This paper demonstrates the application of the grey relational analysis for optimization of different laser cut quality characteristics such as the depth of separation line, drag line separation and bu...

* Corresponding author. 360S, Agricultural En 217 333 2969; fax: þ1 217 244 0323. E-mail address: [email protected] (A 1537-5110/$ e see front matter a 2012 IAgrE doi:10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2012.02.003 Previous studies highlighted the need to develop efficient harvesting and size reduction equipment for miscanthus. This study investigated the effect of blade oblique angles and cutting spee...