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MASMICRO micro-/nano-materials processing, analysis, inspection and materials knowledge management

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The main goals of the ‘Material Innovation and Testing’ within MASMICRO are the identification of the miniature/micro-materials which are formable, development of new materials for forming and machining, development of an integrated material-testing system and study of material properties for design/analysis applications. Examples of collaborative work and results are presented regarding the processing of functional electrospun polymer micro-/nano-fibre structures and the characterization of their interface properties with tribological testing. By means of optical coherence tomography, a non-destructive inspection approach for these micro-/nano-structured webs was developed and it is also documented in the paper. Further, an application example of artificial neural networks (ANNs) is given, concerning the modelling of nano-fibres material behaviour under tensile testing. It is shown how artificial intelligence approaches (knowledge-based systems—KBS and ANNs) can support, significantly, the representation and processing of materials’ knowledge of both, symbolic type, in the case of KBS, and algorithmic type, in the case of ANNs, for the cases dealt within the MASMICRO.

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  1. Swerea IVF, Swedish Institute for Industrial Research & Development, Box 104, SE-431 22, Mölndal, Sweden

    Ioannis S. Chronakis

  2. ANTER Ltd.—Technology Development and Research Co, Feidippidou 22 Str., 11527, Athens, Greece

    Nikolaos D. Mekras

  3. Upper Austrian Research GmbH, Hafenstrasse 47-51, 4020, Linz, Austria

    Karin Wiesauer, Eva Breuer & David Stifter

  4. AIN, 31191 Cordovilla, Pamplona, Spain

    Gonzalo F. Fuentes

  5. DMEM, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XJ, UK

    Yi Qin

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Chronakis, I.S., Mekras, N.D., Wiesauer, K. et al. MASMICRO micro-/nano-materials processing, analysis, inspection and materials knowledge management. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 47, 963–971 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-009-2126-4

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