1. Feature classification of high-volume SiCp/Al composites under the condition of two-dimensional cutting based on cluster analysis theory

   • Keru Jiao
   • Shutao Huang
   • Dejin Zhou

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 06 November 2014 Pages: 677 - 686

2. Integrated cell formation and layout problem considering multi-row machine arrangement and continuous cell layout with aisle distance

   • Kamran Forghani
   • Mohammad Mohammadi
   • Vahidreza Ghezavati

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 12 December 2014 Pages: 687 - 705

3. Solving a multi-objective open shop problem for multi-processors under preventive maintenance

   • A. Azadeh
   • M. Hosseinabadi Farahani
   • M. Zarrin

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 December 2014 Pages: 707 - 722

4. A numerical approach to modeling keyhole laser welding

   • Georgios Pastras
   • Apostolos Fysikopoulos
   • George Chryssolouris

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 December 2014 Pages: 723 - 736

5. Design of an electrochemical micromachining machine

   • Alexandre Spieser
   • Atanas Ivanov

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 December 2014 Pages: 737 - 752

6. Implementation of cross-generation automation transportation system in the TFT-LCD industry

   • Dong Shang Chang
   • Shun Te Lai

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 December 2014 Pages: 753 - 763

7. Framework for the integration of assembly modeling and simulation based on assembly feature pair

   • Jie Zhang
   • Zhijia Xu
   • Shoushan Jiang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 December 2014 Pages: 765 - 780

8. Process characterisation of 3D-printed FDM components using improved evolutionary computational approach

   • V. Vijayaraghavan
   • A. Garg
   • S. S. Mahapatra

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 December 2014 Pages: 781 - 793

9. Optimal condition-based maintenance policy for a partially observable system with two sampling intervals

   • Farnoosh Naderkhani ZG
   • Viliam Makis

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 December 2014 Pages: 795 - 805

10. Automatic process planning of mold components with integration of feature recognition and group technology

    • Wen-Ren Jong
    • Po-Jung Lai
    • Yu-Hung Ting

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 December 2014 Pages: 807 - 824

11. Experimental and numerical analysis of a rectangular helical coil actuator for electromagnetic bulging

    • Ji Hoon Kim
    • Daeyong Kim
    • Myoung-Gyu Lee

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 December 2014 Pages: 825 - 839

12. A new method for nondestructive quality evaluation of the resistance spot welding based on the radar chart method and the decision tree classifier

    • Hongjie Zhang
    • Yanyan Hou
    • Fujun Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 December 2014 Pages: 841 - 851

13. Laser transmission welding of polycarbonates: experiments, modeling, and sensitivity analysis

    • Bappa Acherjee
    • Arunanshu S. Kuar
    • Dipten Misra

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 December 2014 Pages: 853 - 861

14. Weld-bonding of 6061 aluminium alloy

    • Md Faseeulla Khan
    • Gaurav Sharma
    • D. K. Dwivedi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 December 2014 Pages: 863 - 873

15. Improvement of toolpath quality combining polynomial interpolation with reduction of toolpath points

    • Hichem Bouchenitfa
    • Julien Chaves-Jacob
    • Salim Boukebbab

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 December 2014 Pages: 875 - 883

16. Study on manufacturing of W-Cu alloy thin wall parts by selective laser melting

    • Changhui Song
    • Yongqiang Yang
    • Jia-Kuo Yu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 December 2014 Pages: 885 - 893

17. Influence of additional tensile force on the stress and deformation of numerically controlled tube bending

    • Daxin E.
    • Rongting Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 December 2014 Pages: 895 - 905

18. A novel Bi-processing technique for metal matrix nanocomposites

    • Ashraf A. Ali
    • M. A. H. El-Meniawi
    • S. M. Khafagi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 December 2014 Pages: 907 - 915

19. The effect of chip breaker geometry on chip shape, bending moment, and cutting force: FE analysis and experimental study

    • Mohammad Lotfi
    • Ali Akhavan Farid
    • Hamid Soleimanimehr

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 December 2014 Pages: 917 - 925

20. Virtual tryout and optimization of the extrusion die for an aluminum profile with complex cross-sections

    • Cunsheng Zhang
    • Guoqun Zhao
    • Peng Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 December 2014 Pages: 927 - 937

21. The stability of 30-μm-diameter water jet for jet-guided laser machining

    • Eddie Yin-Kwee Ng
    • Du Guannan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 December 2014 Pages: 939 - 946

22. Optimal policies for integrated inventory system under fuzzy random framework

    • Hardik N. Soni
    • Kamlesh A. Patel

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 December 2014 Pages: 947 - 959

23. The kinematics and error modelling of a novel micro-CMM

    • Ali Rugbani
    • Kristiaan Schreve

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 December 2014 Pages: 961 - 969

24. Research on the grain refinement method of cylindrical parts by power spinning

    • Gangfeng Xiao
    • Qinxiang Xia
    • Yujing Zhou

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 December 2014 Pages: 971 - 979

25. Investigation of wrinkling failure mechanics in metal spinning by Box-Behnken design of experiments using finite element method

    • M. Watson
    • H. Long
    • B. Lu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 23 December 2014 Pages: 981 - 995

26. Design and evaluation of a high-speed and precision microspindle

    • W. Li
    • Z. X. Zhou
    • B. Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 December 2014 Pages: 997 - 1004

27. Drawability and frictional behavior of pure molybdenum sheet in deep-drawing process at elevated temperature

    • B. Meng
    • M. W. Fu
    • M. Wan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 December 2014 Pages: 1005 - 1014

28. A novel fine-blanking approach

    • Jang-Ping Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 December 2014 Pages: 1015 - 1019

29. Microtexture fabrication on cylindrical metallic surfaces and its application to a rotor-bearing system

    • Xiuqing Hao
    • Shiyuan Pei
    • Bingheng Lu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 December 2014 Pages: 1021 - 1029

30. Surface roughness modeling using RSM for HSLA steel by coated carbide tools

    • Muhammad Azam
    • Mirza Jahanzaib
    • Salman Hussain

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 December 2014 Pages: 1031 - 1041

31. Calibration of the cutting process and compensation of the compliance error by using on-machine probing

    • R. Guiassa
    • J. R. R. Mayer
    • S. Engin

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 27 December 2014 Pages: 1043 - 1051

32. Multi-objective optimization design method for the machine tool’s structural parts based on computer-aided engineering

    • Shihao Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 December 2014 Pages: 1053 - 1065

33. Mechanical truing of V-shape diamond wheels for micro-structured surface grinding

    • Bing Guo
    • Qingliang Zhao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 December 2014 Pages: 1067 - 1073

34. Study on springback in micro V-bending with consideration of grain heterogeneity

    • Zhi Fang
    • Zhengyi Jiang
    • Xianghua Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 December 2014 Pages: 1075 - 1085

35. A novel tool path generation algorithm for plane envelope grinding convex surface based on constant scallop height method

    • Shao-lei Wang
    • Bin Lin
    • Yan Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 December 2014 Pages: 1087 - 1099

36. Study on governing parameters of thermal history during underwater friction stir welding

    • Hossein Papahn
    • Pouya Bahemmat
    • Christof Sommitsch

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 December 2014 Pages: 1101 - 1111

37. Influence of cutting speed and tool wear on the surface integrity of the titanium alloy Ti-1023 during milling

    • Yang Houchuan
    • Chen Zhitong
    • Zhou ZiTong

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 28 December 2014 Pages: 1113 - 1126

38. An experimental investigation into the micro-electro-discharge machining behaviour of aluminium alloy (AA 2024)

    • M. P. Jahan
    • Pegah Kakavand
    • Y. S. Wong

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 December 2014 Pages: 1127 - 1139

39. Dynamic modeling for thermal error in motorized spindles

    • Baomin Wang
    • Xuesong Mei
    • Fei Zhu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 28 December 2014 Pages: 1141 - 1146

40. Selective element fission approach for fast FEM simulation of incremental sheet forming based on dual-mesh system

    • M. H. Zhang
    • B. Lu
    • H. Ou

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 28 December 2014 Pages: 1147 - 1160

41. Application of Grey Taguchi-based response surface methodology (GT-RSM) for optimizing the plasma arc cutting parameters of 304L stainless steel

    • R. Adalarasan
    • M. Santhanakumar
    • M. Rajmohan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1161 - 1170

42. Modeling machining of particle-reinforced aluminum-based metal matrix composites using cohesive zone elements

    • U. Umer
    • M. Ashfaq
    • A. R. Al-Ahmari

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1171 - 1179

43. Investigation of friction in end-milling of Ti-6Al-4V under different green cutting conditions

    • ZhiQiang Liu
    • Ming Chen
    • QingLong An

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1181 - 1192

44. Closed-loop automatic feedback control in electron beam melting

    • Jorge Mireles
    • Cesar Terrazas
    • Ryan B. Wicker

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1193 - 1199

45. Vision-based control of wire extension in GMA welding

    • Intuon Lertrusdachakul
    • Alexandre Mathieu
    • Olivier Aubreton

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1201 - 1210

46. Modeling of cutting forces in orthogonal turn-milling with round insert cutters

    • Wenwang Qiu
    • Qiang Liu
    • Songmei Yuan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1211 - 1222

47. Modeling and analysis of grinding forces based on the single grit scratch

    • Abdolhamid Azizi
    • Mehrdad Mohamadyari

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1223 - 1231

48. Laminated fabrication of micro-stepped gear mold based on WEDM and thermal diffusion welding

    • Jin-ming Zhong
    • Xiao-yu Wu
    • Shuang-chen Ruan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1233 - 1240

49. A NURBS interpolation method with minimal feedrate fluctuation for CNC machine tools

    • Huan Liu
    • Qiang Liu
    • Songmei Yuan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1241 - 1250

50. Wire electrochemical machining with monodirectional traveling wire

    • Yongbin Zeng
    • Qia Yu
    • Ningsong Qu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 07 January 2015 Pages: 1251 - 1257