BACKGROUND Techniques for the skeletal attachment of amputation-prostheses have been developed over recent decades. This type of attachment has only been performed on a small number of patients. It poses various potential advantages compared to conventional treatment with a socket, but is also associated with an increased risk of bone or implant-bone interface fracture in the case of a fall. We...

ThomX is a compact machine based on the Compton back-scattering, which is being built by LAL in France. The ThomX ring has a short circumference of 16.8 m and a low design energy of 50 MeV, and the dipole bending radius of 0.352 m. With such a short bending radius, the nonlinear effects due to the second order dipole fringe field in the ring become non-trivial. In this paper, we discuss the app...

In this study, the Taguchi method is used to find the optimal process parameters for an injection moulding machine that was used to produce a consumer product (plastic tray) from polypropylene (PP) plastic material. An orthogonal array (OA), main effect, signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were employed to investigate the bending characteristics of the tray under a con...

The increasing availability of data, which becomes a continually trend in multiple fields application, has given machine learning approaches renewed interest recent years. Accordingly, manufacturing processes and sheet metal forming follow such directions, having mind the efficiency control many parameters involved, processing material characterization. In this article, two applications are con...