1. Unequal thickness billet design for large-scale titanium alloy rib-web components under isothermal closed-die forging

   • Ke Wei
   • He Yang
   • Pengfei Gao

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 May 2015 Pages: 729 - 744

2. A mechanistic cutting force model with consideration of the intrinsic and geometric size effects decoupled

   • Il Hyuk Ahn
   • Seung Ki Moon
   • Jihong Hwang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 May 2015 Pages: 745 - 753

3. Thermal effects in magnetic pulse forming of magnesium alloy sheet

   • Junrui Xu
   • Jiai Su
   • Guangyao Li

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 May 2015 Pages: 755 - 770

4. One-step models for soft computing techniques. Industrial application to image processing in quality assurance process

   • Pascual Noradino Montes Dorantes
   • Marco Aurelio Jiménez Gómez
   • Jesús de la Rosa Elizondo

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 May 2015 Pages: 771 - 778

5. A hybrid process for complex-shaped parts electroforming

   • Zengwei Zhu
   • Xuelei Li
   • Di Zhu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 May 2015 Pages: 779 - 784

6. Useful fluid flow and flow rate in grinding: an experimental verification

   • Changhe Li
   • Qiang Zhang
   • Xiaowei Zhang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 13 May 2015 Pages: 785 - 794

7. Novel automated methods for coarse and fine registrations of point clouds in high precision metrology

   • Rindra Rantoson
   • Hichem Nouira
   • Charyar Mehdi-Souzani

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 795 - 810

8. A comparison of solid model and three-orthogonal dexelfield methods for cutter-workpiece engagement calculations in three- and five-axis virtual milling

   • Y. Boz
   • H. Erdim
   • I. Lazoglu

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 811 - 823

9. Microstructure and mechanical properties of laser-MAG hybrid welded thick-section weathered steel joint

   • X. Y. Gu
   • Z. Z. Duan
   • D. Q. Sun

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 825 - 831

10. Optimized dwell time algorithm in magnetorheological finishing

    • Longxiang Li
    • Ligong Zheng
    • Xuejun Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 833 - 841

11. Investigation on effects of process parameters on porosity in dissimilar Al alloy lap fillet welds

    • Wen Liu
    • Hui-Ping Wang
    • Xinhua Tang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 843 - 849

12. Investigation on welding parameters and bonding characteristics of underwater wet friction taper plug welding for pipeline steel

    • Yayun Yin
    • Xinqi Yang
    • Wei Xu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 851 - 861

13. Low-carbon conceptual design based on product life cycle assessment

    • Bin He
    • Wen Tang
    • Yan Wang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 863 - 874

14. A grinding force model for ultrasonic assisted internal grinding (UAIG) of SiC ceramics

    • Jianguo Cao
    • Yongbo Wu
    • Qinjian Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 875 - 885

15. Expert systems in manufacturing processes using soft computing

    • Dilip Kumar Pratihar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 887 - 896

16. Research on the electrolytic-magnetic abrasive finishing of nickel-based superalloy GH4169

    • Z. W. Du
    • Y. Chen
    • C. Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 897 - 903

17. Effect of vitrified bond microstructure and volume fraction in the grinding wheel on traverse internal cylindrical grinding of Inconel^® alloy 600

    • Krzysztof Nadolny
    • Daniela Herman

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 14 May 2015 Pages: 905 - 915

18. Engine blade regeneration: a literature review on common technologies in terms of machining

    • Berend Denkena
    • Volker Boess
    • Felix Rust

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 14 May 2015 Pages: 917 - 924

19. An improved two-point real-time measuring method for radial micro-displacement measurement on high-speed smart boring bar

    • Huanghu Peng
    • Yijie Wu
    • Yizhi Zhang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 May 2015 Pages: 925 - 933

20. Dynamic precision control in single-grit scratch tests using acoustic emission signals

    • James Marcus Griffin
    • Fernando Torres

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 May 2015 Pages: 935 - 953

21. Experimental investigation on the machining characteristics of single-crystal SiC sawing with the fixed diamond wire

    • Hui Huang
    • Yuxing Zhang
    • Xipeng Xu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 May 2015 Pages: 955 - 965

22. Deformation control in micro-milling of thin-walled structures

    • Zhaojun Kou
    • Yi Wan
    • Xichang Liang

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 May 2015 Pages: 967 - 974

23. Critical undeformed chip thickness of brittle materials in single point diamond turning

    • W. J. Zong
    • Z. M. Cao
    • T. Sun

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 May 2015 Pages: 975 - 984

24. Finite element investigation on the evolution of wear and stresses in brazed CBN grits during grinding

    • Wen-Feng Ding
    • Ye-Jun Zhu
    • Yu-Can Fu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 May 2015 Pages: 985 - 993

25. Understanding the effects of grinding speed and undeformed chip thickness on the chip formation in high-speed grinding

    • Jianbo Dai
    • Wenfeng Ding
    • Honghua Su

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 15 May 2015 Pages: 995 - 1005

26. Effect of fluid in molten pool on the welds with Ti-6Al-4V during pulsed arc welding

    • Mingxuan Yang
    • Zhou Yang
    • Bojin Qi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 May 2015 Pages: 1007 - 1016

27. Casting of array micro-holes on Al components

    • M. L. Jin
    • Y. D. Qu
    • R. D. Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 May 2015 Pages: 1017 - 1021

28. Energy criteria for machining-induced residual stresses in face milling and their relation with cutting power

    • Yuan Ma
    • Pingfa Feng
    • Dingwen Yu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 May 2015 Pages: 1023 - 1032

29. Effect of welding sequence of a multi-pass temper bead in gas-shielded flux-cored arc welding process: hardness, microstructure, and impact toughness analysis

    • Kuo-Hsia Ling
    • Yiin-Kuen Fuh
    • Sheng Xun-Tu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 May 2015 Pages: 1033 - 1046

30. X-MR control chart for autocorrelated fuzzy data using D _p,q -distance

    • Bahram Sadeghpour Gildeh
    • Niloufar Shafiee

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 May 2015 Pages: 1047 - 1054

31. A novel model to predict U-bending springback and time-dependent springback for a HSLA steel plate

    • Hao-Jie Jiang
    • Hong-Liang Dai

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 May 2015 Pages: 1055 - 1066

32. Further development of adaptable automated visual inspection—part I: concept and scheme

    • Jun Sun
    • Qiao Sun

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 30 May 2015 Pages: 1067 - 1076

33. Further development of adaptable automated visual inspection—part II: implementation and evaluation

    • Jun Sun
    • Qiao Sun

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 16 May 2015 Pages: 1077 - 1096

34. Comparative study on grinding of thin-walled and honeycomb-structured components with two CBN wheels

    • Y. B. Tian
    • Z. W. Zhong
    • R. Rawat

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 May 2015 Pages: 1097 - 1108

35. A kind of analytical model of arc welding temperature distribution under varying material properties

    • Liu Wenji
    • Li Liangyu
    • Yang Lei

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 May 2015 Pages: 1109 - 1116

36. Laser fabrication of diamond micro-cutting tool-related geometries using a high-numerical aperture micro-scanning system

    • Gregory Eberle
    • Claus Dold
    • Konrad Wegener

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 May 2015 Pages: 1117 - 1125

37. Automatic part localization in a CNC machine coordinate system by means of 3D scans

    • Harshad Srinivasan
    • Ola L. A. Harrysson
    • Richard A. Wysk

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 May 2015 Pages: 1127 - 1138

38. A group decision-making approach for supplier selection in configuration design: A case study

    • Shad Dowlatshahi
    • Mehdi Karimi-Nasab
    • Hasan Bahrololum

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 May 2015 Pages: 1139 - 1154

39. Elucidating of tool rotational speed in friction stir welding of 7020-T6 aluminum alloy

    • A. Salemi Golezani
    • R. Vatankhah Barenji
    • H. Pouraliakbar

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 17 May 2015 Pages: 1155 - 1164

40. Experimental investigation on the effects of different heat treatment processes on grinding machinability and surface integrity of 9Mn2V

    • Dapeng Dong
    • Guoqiang Guo
    • Ming Chen

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 May 2015 Pages: 1165 - 1174

41. Experimental study on internal cylindrical grinding of bearing steel with electrolytic in-process dressing grinding

    • Kaifei Zhang
    • Yongchang Yu
    • He Li

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 May 2015 Pages: 1175 - 1185

42. Tool failure detection method for high-speed milling using vibration signal and reconfigurable bandpass digital filtering

    • P. Y. Sevilla-Camacho
    • J. B. Robles-Ocampo
    • F. Lee-Orantes

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 May 2015 Pages: 1187 - 1194

43. Large-scale disassembly operations planning with parallel resources

    • Burak Gökgür
    • Mahmut Ali Gökçe
    • Selin Özpeynirci

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 May 2015 Pages: 1195 - 1214

44. Surface roughness inspection in milling operations with photometric stereo and PNN

    • Bulent Kaya

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 19 May 2015 Pages: 1215 - 1222

45. Development of a cutting force prediction model based on brittle fracture for carbon fiber reinforced polymers for rotary ultrasonic drilling

    • Songmei Yuan
    • Chong Zhang
    • Ming Liu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Open access 20 May 2015 Pages: 1223 - 1231

46. Smooth contour-parallel tool path generation for high-speed machining through a dual offset procedure

    • Zhiwei Lin
    • Jianzhong Fu
    • Xinhua Yao

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 May 2015 Pages: 1233 - 1245

47. A new collision avoidance strategy and its integration with collision detection for five-axis NC machining

    • Tran Duc Tang
    • Erik L. J. Bohez

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 May 2015 Pages: 1247 - 1258

48. Immersive virtual reality to vindicate the application of value stream mapping in an US-based SME

    • Satish Tyagi
    • Sarat Vadrevu

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 May 2015 Pages: 1259 - 1272

49. Heat input analysis of variable polarity arc welding of aluminum

    • Jungho Cho
    • Jung-Jae Lee
    • Seung-Hwan Bae

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 May 2015 Pages: 1273 - 1280

50. A procedure to form powder activated carbon into activated carbon monolith

    • Navid Saeidi
    • Mohammad Nader Lotfollahi

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE 20 May 2015 Pages: 1281 - 1288