Browsing Mechanical & Manufacturing Eng (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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Anomaly detection in drilling using neural networks
(1999)With increasing competitive pressures, manuf acturing systems in the automotive industry are being driven more and more aggressively. The pressures imposed on the processes and lack of system 'slack' have led to ... -
Rear impact inflicted temporomandibular joint injuries
(Taylor and Francis, 2000)Indirect injuries to the jaw can lead to a range of painful symptoms with serious consequences. These injuries are confirmed by clinical evidence but the injury mechanism is not understood. This work is an investigation ... -
Mechanics applied to skeletal ontogeny and phylogeny
(Springer, 2002)The musculo-skeletal system serves the mechanical function of creating motion and transmitting loads. It is made up mainly of four components: bone, cartilage, muscle and fibrous connective tissue. These have evolved over ... -
Evaluation of high frequency vibrations using electronic speckle pattern interferometry
(2002)The available techniques for the study of high frequency vibration using electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) are briefly surveyed. We concentrate on two methods in particular. The first is a straightforward ... -
Fast numerical simulation of vortex shedding in tube arrays using a discrete vortex method
(2003)Vortex shedding may occur in tube arrays, resulting in strong excitation forces at discrete frequencies. In the past the Strouhal numbers governing vortex shedding in these systems were determined primarily by experiment. ... -
The effect of prosthesis design on vibration of the reconstructed ossicular chain: a comparative finite element analysis of four prostheses
(Wolters Kluwer, 2003)Hypothesis: We hypothesize that the differences in the bioacoustic performance of ossicular replacement prosthesis designs, and insertion positions, can be quantified using finite element analysis. Background: Many ... -
Biomechanics of ossiculoplasty
(Rila, 2003)Many different designs of prostheses are available for middle ear surgery. Clinical comparisons of such prostheses are often difficult because of the large number of variables involved in the clinical outcome; including ... -
Natural convection around a horizontal heated cylinder: The effects of vertical confinement
(2003)Natural convection heat transfer from a single horizontal cylinder and a pair of vertically aligned horizontal cylinders is investigated. Surface heat transfer distributions around the circumference of the cylinders are ... -
Effect of a degraded core on the mechanical behaviour of tissue-engineered cartilage constructs: a poro-elastic finite element analysis
(Springer, 2004)The structure and functionality of tissue-engineered cartilage is determined by the tissue culture conditions and mechanical conditioning during growth. The quality of tissue-engineered cartilage can be evaluated using ... -
Study of pulsating flow in close-coupled catalyst manifolds using phase-locked hot-wire anemometry
(2004)Phase-locked sampling has been applied to hot-wire anemometry in order to investigate the pulsating flow inside two types of automotive exhaust manifolds fitted with a close-coupled catalyst. An isothermal dynamic flow ... -
Wear of grinding wheels - software for their selection
(2004)An existing model of the grinding process has been upgraded to predict grinding wheel wear as G ratios. It has been successfully benchmarked against experimental results for several combinations of coolant wheel and ... -
Control of Grinding Temperature by High Speed Air Jets
(Bled, 2004)Grinding, like other abrasive processes, may generate high local temperatures along the arc of cut. These can cause various forms of surface damage in the most sensitive finishing phase of the manufacturing cycle. Traditional ... -
Modelling damage growth and failure in elastic materials with random defect distributions
(Royal Irish Academy, 2004)Failure in materials under cyclic loading occurs by the growth and propagation of cracks. If they are sufficiently numerous, the cracks can be considered to be continuously distributed in the material. In this paper, a ... -
A new Approach for experimental evaluation of contact stresses
(2005)n metal forming operations, t he intensity and distribution o f stresses at the tool/material interface have great influence on the pattern and mode of deformation. This is due to the effect ... -
Under surface pressure sensing technique for the evaluation of contact stresses
(2005)In metal forming operations, the intensity and distribution of stresses at the tool/material interface have great influence on the pattern and mode of deformation. This is due to the effect of frictional forces, being ... -
Use of concealed pressure pins to determinate contact stresses in ring compression
(2005)new flexible experimental technique is introduced where a tool base that incorporates sensitive pressure pins is used. An industrial - tool that contains the forging geometry can be placed on top of the ... -
A Comparison of Coherence Based Acoustic Source Identification Techniques
(2005)Four techniques of source identification are examined and the performance of each evaluated with experimental data. The procedures are all frequency domain methods and depend to some extent on the coherence function. The ... -
Mechanobiological models of Skeletal Tissue Differentiation
(Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005)Mechanical forces may act within tissues at the cellular level to regulate biological processes, a field of study that has been termed mechanobiology. The aim of computational mechanobiology is to derive sets of equations ...
