introduction: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of three methods in removal of resilon/new epiphany self-etch (se) soft resin endodontic obturation system. materials and methods: thirty extracted single rooted human teeth were prepared for endodontic treatment and obturated with resilon/epiphany se. the roots were randomly divided into three groups; group 1 roots were retre...

Abstract. Tool wear sensing plays an important role in the optimisation of tool exchange and tip geometry compensation during automated machining in flexible manufacturing system. The focus of this work is to develop a reliable method to estimate flank wear during end milling process. A neural-fuzzy scheme is applied to perform one-step-ahead prediction of flank wear from cutting force signals ...

This paper describes geometric algorithms for automatically selecting an optimal sequence of cutters for machining a set of 21⁄2D parts. In milling operations, cutter size affects the machining time significantly. Meanwhile, if the batch size is small, it is also important to shorten the time spent on loading tools into the tool magazine and establishing z-length compensation values. Therefore,...

Chatter is a complicated problem faced by machine tool operators. Chatter is a self-excited vibration that can occur during machining operations. This is an undesirable phenomenon which limits the productivity of the machine. A lot of techniques have been developed to control the chatter. Stability lobe diagram is an effective tool which helps the operator to select specific spindle speeds duri...