...Zhongjia Gao; James F. Nowak; Johnathan Corbin; Lauren Delgado; Johnson Samuel Given the recent trend toward hybrid processing involving the integration of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) and machining capabilities, this paper aims to identify and correlate microstructural variations...

... rotary tool electrode resolidified layer stainless steel microstructure Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a noncontact processing method which can machine any electrically conductive materials regardless of their hardness. EDM can also fabricate complicated microstructures [ 1 – 3...

... feedstock filament is more suitable for grinding applications especially in clinical dentistry. Microstructure Polymers Tribological Size Effect 1 Corresponding author. Contributed by the Manufacturing Engineering Division of ASME for publication in the J OURNAL OF M ICRO- AND N ANO...

...Pedram Parandoush; Hanxiong Fan; Xiaolei Song; Dong Lin Bioceramics with porous microstructure has attracted intense attention in tissue engineering due to tissue growth facilitation in the human body. In the present work, a novel manufacturing process for producing hydroxyapatite (HA) aerogels...

... with the global electric field and with other charged particles/droplets governs the particles' trajectory and determines the microstructure of the printed deposit. In this study, we characterized the structure of nanoparticle deposits printed using electrospray for deposits with low particle count. During...

... Microextrusion Microstructure Numerical simulations Micro-manufacturing There is increasing demands for the ability to construct multifunctional heterogeneously structured objects with control of the macroscale external geometry and microscale internal structures as well as functional surface features...

... microstructures using visible light, with state-of-the-art accuracy. By combining imaging scatterometry and the software package infoscat , one can get a very user-friendly scatterometry technique. We have presented measurements of 1D and 2D gratings using a Fourier lens scatterometer. The system is able...

..., and the minimum delay time for refreshing resin was experimentally characterized. The experimental results verify that, compared with the existing MIP-μSL processes, the MIP-μSL process with single-layer movement separation method developed in this paper can build microstructures with complex geometry...

...Justin D. Morrow; Frank E. Pfefferkorn Laser surface melting is being increasingly used as a method of surface polishing steels and other alloys, but understanding the effect of this process on the microstructure and properties is still incomplete. This work experimentally explores several basic...

..., the replication of prismatic optical microstructures is investigated. EN AW-1050A (Al99.5) micrometal sheets with a thickness of 50 μ m and 300 μ m are electromagnetically micro-embossed. With this technique, it is possible to successfully replicate triangular cross section micro V-grooves of 86.6 μ m in width...

... Voltage and current waveforms in micro-EDM milling Edm Micro machining Microstructure Ecm Generally, in a micro-EDM process the assessment of process parameters [ 7 , 14 , 15 ] needs to be done taking into account the workpiece and electrode tool materials, the tool diameter...

... ICRO- AND N ANO -M ANUFACTURING . Manuscript received August 5, 2014; final manuscript received September 23, 2015; published online December 15, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Gracious Ngaile. 05 08 2014 23 09 2015 Metallic materials Micro forming Microstructure Plasma Processes...

... . Manuscript received August 15, 2014; final manuscript received August 26, 2015; published online September 22, 2015. Assoc. Editor: Martin Jun. 15 08 2014 26 08 2015 Electronic Micro machining Microstructure Nanomanufacturing Nanostructure Micro-manufacturing The emergence...

...A. M. Abdelrahman Elkaseer; S. S. Dimov; K. B. Popov; R. M. Minev Fig. 1 Microstructure of WCu [ 8 ] Popov et al. [ 9 ] investigated the machining response of mechanically and metallurgically modified Al 5083 alloy when milling thin features in microcomponents. It was showed...

... of the nanoindentation test. The Young's modulus and hardness are increased with increasing PIP process cycles. From energy dispersive X-ray measurement results, it is found that their distributions are related to the amount of oxygen and the carbon-to-silicon ratio. Microstructure Microelectromechanical...

... without leakage. Laser ablation Microstructure Polymers Process control Current patients receiving hemodialysis treatment at central facilities have decreased quality of life and higher mortality rates compared to those who receive nocturnal hemodialysis in the home [ 1 ]. The improved...