1. Analytical and numerical studies of fatigue stresses in friction stir welding

   • Z. Zhang
   • Q. Wu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 January 2015 Pages: 1371 - 1380

2. Quality control using a multivariate injection molding sensor

   • Guthrie Gordon
   • David O. Kazmer
   • Robert X. Gao

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 January 2015 Pages: 1381 - 1391

3. Finite element modeling of hard turning process via a micro-textured tool

   • Dong Min Kim
   • Vivek Bajpai
   • Hyung Wook Park

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 January 2015 Pages: 1393 - 1405

4. Researches on physical field evolution of micro-cutting of steel H13 by micron scale ceramic cutter based on finite element modeling

   • Hongjun Hu
   • Zhiye Zhai
   • Junlin Dai

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 January 2015 Pages: 1407 - 1414

5. Microstructural characteristics and mechanical properties of friction stir lap welding joint of Alclad 7B04-T74 aluminum alloy

   • Huijie Liu
   • Yunqiang Zhao
   • Zhe Lin

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 January 2015 Pages: 1415 - 1425

6. Enhancement of adhesion strength by micro-rolling-based surface texturing

   • Dongkai Xu
   • Man-Kwan Ng
   • Jian Cao

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 09 January 2015 Pages: 1427 - 1435

7. Effect of friction stir processing with B₄C particles on the microstructure and mechanical properties of 6061 aluminum alloy

   • Yong Zhao
   • Xiaolu Huang
   • Keng Yan

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 January 2015 Pages: 1437 - 1443

8. PCD tool performance in high-speed milling of high volume fraction SiCp/Al composites

   • Tao Wang
   • Lijing Xie
   • Zhiwei Ding

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 January 2015 Pages: 1445 - 1453

9. A decision-guidance framework for sustainability performance analysis of manufacturing processes

   • Duck Bong Kim
   • Seung-Jun Shin
   • Alexander Brodsky

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 January 2015 Pages: 1455 - 1471

10. Constant-load adaptive belt polishing of the weak-rigidity blisk blade

    • Guijian Xiao
    • Yun Huang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 January 2015 Pages: 1473 - 1484

11. Experimental and numerical investigation of laser hot wire welding

    • Wei Liu
    • Junjie Ma
    • Radovan Kovacevic

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 10 January 2015 Pages: 1485 - 1499

12. Improved method to predict cutting force in end milling considering cutting process dynamics

    • Sheng Qu
    • Jibin Zhao
    • Fengjie Tian

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1501 - 1510

13. Real time power consumption monitoring for energy efficiency analysis in micro EDM milling

    • Gianluca Tristo
    • Giuliano Bissacco
    • Joško Valentinčič

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1511 - 1521

14. Characteristics of an autogenous single pass electron beam weld in thick gage CA6NM steel

    • S. Sarafan
    • P. Wanjara
    • D. Thibault

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1523 - 1535

15. Tool steel material selection using PROMETHEE II method

    • Saikat Ranjan Maity
    • Shankar Chakraborty

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1537 - 1547

16. Direct laser writing of Fresnel microlenses with use of the scanning contour ablation method

    • Michał R. Wójcik
    • Arkadiusz J. Antończak
    • Krzysztof M. Abramski

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 11 January 2015 Pages: 1549 - 1556

17. Numerical shape optimization as an approach to reduce material waste in injection molding

    • Mario Studer
    • Frank Ehrig

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1557 - 1571

18. Experimental investigation of kerf of Ti6Al4V exposed to different heat treatment processes in WEDM and optimization of parameters using genetic algorithm

    • Mehmet Altug
    • Mehmet Erdem
    • Cetin Ozay

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1573 - 1583

19. Surface alloying of H11 die steel by tungsten using EDM process

    • Amoljit Singh Gill
    • Sanjeev Kumar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1585 - 1593

20. Ontology-based disassembly information system for enhancing disassembly planning and design

    • Bicheng Zhu
    • Utpal Roy

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1595 - 1608

21. A review of cryogenic treatment on cutting tools

    • Sıtkı Akincioğlu
    • Hasan Gökkaya
    • İlyas Uygur

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 11 January 2015 Pages: 1609 - 1627

22. Experiment-based regional characterization of HAZ mechanical properties for laser welding

    • Chunhua Wei
    • Jing Zhang
    • Weisheng Xia

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 January 2015 Pages: 1629 - 1640

23. FEM analysis on the abrasive erosion process in ultrasonic-assisted abrasive waterjet machining

    • Zhe Lv
    • Chuanzhen Huang
    • Zengwen Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 January 2015 Pages: 1641 - 1649

24. Experimental study on improving μ-WEDM and μ-EDM of doped silicon by temporary metallic coating

    • Tanveer Saleh
    • Aous Naji Rasheed
    • Asan G. A. Muthalif

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 January 2015 Pages: 1651 - 1663

25. Modeling and optimization of dilution in SAW in the presence of Cr₂O₃ nano-particles

    • Masood Aghakhani
    • Pooria Naderian

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 January 2015 Pages: 1665 - 1676

26. Numeric implementation of drop and tilt method of 5-axis tool positioning for machining of triangulated surfaces

    • Ravinder Kumar Duvedi
    • Sanjeev Bedi
    • Stephen Mann

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 January 2015 Pages: 1677 - 1690

27. A unique meta-heuristic algorithm for optimization of electricity consumption in energy-intensive industries with stochastic inputs

    • A. Azadeh
    • P. Sohrabi
    • M. Saberi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 January 2015 Pages: 1691 - 1703

28. Travel time model for shuttle-based storage and retrieval systems

    • Tone Lerher
    • Banu Y. Ekren
    • Bojan Rosi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 January 2015 Pages: 1705 - 1725

29. Degradation mode and criticality analysis based on product usage data

    • Jong-Ho Shin
    • Hong-Bae Jun
    • Paul Xirouchakis

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2015 Pages: 1727 - 1742

30. Identification and compensation for offset errors on the rotary axes of a multi-axis Magnetorheological Finishing machine tool

    • Yin Wang
    • Xiaoqiang Peng
    • Ci Songand Xuqing Nie

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2015 Pages: 1743 - 1749

31. Modeling of machined surface quality in high-speed ball-end milling of Inconel-718 thin cantilevers

    • Harshad A. Sonawane
    • Suhas S. Joshi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2015 Pages: 1751 - 1768

32. Characterization of deformation behavior of thin-walled tubes during incremental forming: a study with selected examples

    • Tong Wen
    • Chen Yang
    • Lantao Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2015 Pages: 1769 - 1780

33. A method for discovering typical process sequence using granular computing and similarity algorithm based on part features

    • Danchen Zhou
    • Xuan Dai

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2015 Pages: 1781 - 1793

34. Pin axis effects on forces in friction stir welding process

    • Saeid Amini
    • M. R. Amiri

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2015 Pages: 1795 - 1801

35. Kerf analysis and control in dry micro-wire electrical discharge machining

    • K. T. Hoang
    • S. H. Yang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 January 2015 Pages: 1803 - 1812

36. Multi-objective optimization design of injection molding process parameters based on the improved efficient global optimization algorithm and non-dominated sorting-based genetic algorithm

    • Jian Zhao
    • Gengdong Cheng
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2015 Pages: 1813 - 1826

37. A new method for prediction of forward slip in the tandem cold rolling mill

    • M. Poursina
    • M. Rahmatipour
    • H. Mirmohamadi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2015 Pages: 1827 - 1835

38. Integration of real-time Ethernet in LinuxCNC

    • Elmar Wings
    • Marcel Müller
    • Marc Rochler

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2015 Pages: 1837 - 1846

39. Study on the clamping capacity of profile jaws based on finite element analysis

    • Tongsheng Deng
    • Dongsheng Li
    • Pan Ding

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2015 Pages: 1847 - 1855

40. A study of the machining characteristics of micro EDM milling and its improvement by electrode coating

    • Ai-Huei Chiou
    • Chung-Chen Tsao
    • Chun-Yao Hsu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2015 Pages: 1857 - 1864

41. Research and development on key models and technology of PDM system

    • Hongtao Tang
    • Shunsheng Guo
    • Yibing Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2015 Pages: 1865 - 1878

42. The impact of contextual variables on learning organization in firms that are implementing lean: a study in Southern Brazil

    • Guilherme Luz Tortorella
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 18 January 2015 Pages: 1879 - 1892

43. Kinematics and experimental study on ultrasonic vibration-assisted micro end grinding of silica glass

    • Zhang Jian-Hua
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2015 Pages: 1893 - 1904

44. Groove configurations of a flux-cored arc welding process used in critical structures of precision mechanical presses—mechanical and metallurgical studies

    • Kuo-Hsia Ling
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2015 Pages: 1905 - 1916

45. Numerical simulation on MIG arc brazing-fusion welding of aluminum alloy to galvanized steel plate

    • Guoliang Qin
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2015 Pages: 1917 - 1925

46. Quality and pricing decisions in a two-echelon supply chain under multi-manufacturer competition

    • B. C. Giri
    • A. Chakraborty
    • T. Maiti

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 January 2015 Pages: 1927 - 1941

47. Analysis of loads on grinding wheel binder in grinding process: insights from discontinuum-hypothesis-based grinding simulation

    • Haonan Li
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 January 2015 Pages: 1943 - 1960

48. Scheduling a real-world hybrid flow shop with variable processing times using Lagrangian relaxation

    • Liangliang Sun
    • Shengping Yu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 January 2015 Pages: 1961 - 1970

49. A conceptual framework for a ubiquitous autonomous work system in the Engineer-To-Order environment

    • Damir Husejnagić
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 January 2015 Pages: 1971 - 1988

50. Deep-type hole machining by inner jetted aerosol dielectric ablation

    • Zhongli Cao
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    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 21 January 2015 Pages: 1989 - 1998