Abrasive waterjet cutting is one of the nontraditional machining processes capable of cutting wide range of hard-to-cut materials. This process incurs relatively higher initial investment, maintenance and operating costs. Therefore optimum choice of the process parameters is essential for the economic, efficient and effective utilization of this process. This paper assesses the influence of pro...

Consider a file that resides in a linear storage device with one read head. Suppose that several queries on the file must be answered simultaneously with no prespecified order. To satisfy the ith query the head must be located at point I., of the file and traverse the file up to point R, without interruptions, where 1~ L, < R, 4 N denote positions in the file. We wish to find the execution orde...

In this investigation, the effect of friction stir processing (FSP) parameters such as rotational speed, traverse speed and plunge depth on the tensile strength of AA6063 aluminum alloy was studied. The experiments were carried out as per response surface methodology parametric design concepts to study the influence of various combinations of process parameters. Statistical optimization techniq...

The widespread application of thermoplastic polymers in different aspects of industries has motivated researchers and companies to improve and upgrade their forming, joining and assembling processes to overcome their limitations. One of the newest joining methods of thermoplastics is friction stir welding which is based on frictional heat generated through contact between a rotating tool and th...

In this study, the effects of process parameters on the geometrical characteristics and the topography were investigated in milling of SS304 material using Abrasive Water Jet machining technique. In addition, optimal control of the input variables for achieving the quality of the channel was determined by using Grey relational analysis. The input process parameters include traverse speed, abras...

Abstract. With the advancement of technology, lowered cost in hardware and widely available development tools, more educators across different disciplines have used virtual reality as a mean to enhance their teaching. The hit pandemic has also speeded up adoption education where face-to-face classes practicals are suspended/cancelled. Virtual Reality tool facilitate teaching learning created ne...

The widespread application of thermoplastic polymers in different aspects of industries has motivated researchers and companies to improve and upgrade their forming, joining and assembling processes to overcome their limitations. One of the newest joining methods of thermoplastics is friction stir welding which is based on frictional heat generated through contact between a rotating tool and th...

We present an approximation algorithm for the shortest descending path problem. Given a source s and a destination t on a terrain, a shortest descending path from s to t is a path of minimum Euclidean length on the terrain subject to the constraint that the height decreases monotonically as we traverse that path from s to t. Given any ε ∈ (0, 1), our algorithm returns in O(n log(n/ε)) time a de...