In this paper a test bench of interior honing processes was studied, analyzed and adjusted in order to improve its performance. The system consists of a horizontal honing test machine where tubes are placed in a rotating device and a honing head, provided with three abrasive stones, that has alternative linear movement. The abrasive stones hone the interior surface of the tubes. The system has ...

This paper proposes a theory of creativity, referred to as honing theory, which posits that creativity fuels the process by which culture evolves through communal exchange amongst minds that are self-organizing, self-maintaining, and self-reproducing. According to honing theory, minds, like other self-organizing systems, modify their contents and adapt to their environments to minimize entropy....

Copyright: © 2017. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. What are the causes of disease? How best can laboratories detect them? And what can we do with the knowledge that laboratories generate to improve disease prevention, containment and treatment? These are questions that fall within the African Journal of Laboratory Medicine’s sc...

The article presents a literature review dealing with the effect of honing parameters on quality machined parts, as well recent innovations in processes. First, an overview about and plateau-honing processes is presented, considering main that can be varied during machining. Then, influence surface finish, shape deviation material removal rate presented. Finally, some special innovative applica...

Creativity is thought to involve searching and selecting amongst multiple discrete idea candidates. Honing theory predicts that it involves actualizing the potentiality of as few as a single ill-defined idea by viewing it from different contexts. This paper reports on a study that tests between these theories. Participants were invited to “Create a painting that expresses yourself in any style ...

In the present paper an indirect model based on neural networks is presented for modelling the rough honing process. It allows obtaining values to be set for different process variables (linear speed, tangential speed, pressure of abrasive stones, grain size of abrasive and density of abrasive) as a function of required average roughness Ra. A multilayer perceptron (feedforward) with a backprop...