All Outputs (105)

The effect of interstitial fluid on the machining behaviour of cortical bone (2022)
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Robles-Linares, J. A., Liao, Z., Axinte, D., & Gameros, A. (2022). The effect of interstitial fluid on the machining behaviour of cortical bone. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 307, Article 117697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2022.117697

Bone machining research is usually conducted ex-vivo with standard laboratory equipment, implying mostly that the cutting process takes place in dry state. While these studies are useful for understanding the bone cutting process, they cannot represe... Read More about The effect of interstitial fluid on the machining behaviour of cortical bone.

A Novel Underactuated Continuum Robot With Shape Memory Alloy Clutches (2022)
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Bishop, C., Russo, M., Dong, X., & Axinte, D. (2022). A Novel Underactuated Continuum Robot With Shape Memory Alloy Clutches. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(6), 5339-5350. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2022.3179812

The many degrees of freedom of continuum robots (CRs) enable unique applications in the search and rescue, medical and aerospace industries. However, the many motors required result in unwieldy external actuation packs and additional weight. Underact... Read More about A Novel Underactuated Continuum Robot With Shape Memory Alloy Clutches.

On the importance of interface stability in cellular automata models: Planar and dendritic solidification in laser melted YSZ (2022)
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Ushmaev, D., Liao, Z., Notron, A., & Axinte, D. (2022). On the importance of interface stability in cellular automata models: Planar and dendritic solidification in laser melted YSZ. Materials and Design, 219, Article 110823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110823

Laser-processing technologies are often applied to enhance the properties of ceramics, such as laser glazing of Yttria Stabilised Zirconia (YSZ). However, very limited attention was paid to the solidification phenomena and mechanisms of YSZ. In this... Read More about On the importance of interface stability in cellular automata models: Planar and dendritic solidification in laser melted YSZ.

Temperature-dependent shear localisation and microstructural evolution in machining of nickel-base superalloys (2022)
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la Monaca, A., Axinte, D. A., Liao, Z., M'Saoubi, R., & Hardy, M. C. (2022). Temperature-dependent shear localisation and microstructural evolution in machining of nickel-base superalloys. Materials and Design, 219, Article 110792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2022.110792

Understanding the microstructural evolution mechanisms in machining of advanced materials is essential to achieve excellent surface integrity levels within the manufacture of safety–critical components. However, as thermal and mechanical effects are... Read More about Temperature-dependent shear localisation and microstructural evolution in machining of nickel-base superalloys.

Can higher cutting speeds and temperatures improve the microstructural surface integrity of advanced Ni-base superalloys? (2022)
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la Monaca, A., Liao, Z., Axinte, D. A., M'Saoubi, R., & Hardy, M. C. (2022). Can higher cutting speeds and temperatures improve the microstructural surface integrity of advanced Ni-base superalloys?. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 71(1), 113-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2022.04.061

Future Ni-base superalloys are designed to deliver outstanding mechanical behaviour at high temperatures, which may translate in significant machining challenges. In this work, a paradigm is presented by which is proven how machining of these materia... Read More about Can higher cutting speeds and temperatures improve the microstructural surface integrity of advanced Ni-base superalloys?.

Overlapped wire-fed laser cladding on inclined surfaces: An analytical model considering gravity and a model application (2022)
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Li, J., Li, H. N., Liao, Z., & Axinte, D. (2022). Overlapped wire-fed laser cladding on inclined surfaces: An analytical model considering gravity and a model application. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 304, Article 117559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2022.117559

The controllable wire-fed laser cladding (WLC) on inclined surfaces is one of the most challenging issues to repair free-form surfaces of high-valued parts because of the gravity effect, and therefore has attracted substantial attentions. Numerical m... Read More about Overlapped wire-fed laser cladding on inclined surfaces: An analytical model considering gravity and a model application.

Continuum Robots Collaborate for Safe Manipulation of High-Temperature Flame to Enable Repairs in Challenging Environments (2022)
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Dong, X., Wang, M., Mohammad, A. E. K., Ba, W., Russo, M., Norton, A., …Axinte, D. (2022). Continuum Robots Collaborate for Safe Manipulation of High-Temperature Flame to Enable Repairs in Challenging Environments. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(5), 4217-4220. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2021.3138222

This letter presents two long continuum robots, inserted through small holes, and working collaboratively in a crammed space to manipulate an extreme-temperature (>2000 °C) flame for coating repair on aeroengines without the need of their disassembly... Read More about Continuum Robots Collaborate for Safe Manipulation of High-Temperature Flame to Enable Repairs in Challenging Environments.

Cooperative continuum robots: Enhancing individual continuum arms by reconfiguring into a parallel manipulator (2021)
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Russo, M., Sriratanasak, N., Ba, W., Dong, X., Mohammad, A., & Axinte, D. (2022). Cooperative continuum robots: Enhancing individual continuum arms by reconfiguring into a parallel manipulator. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 7(2), 1558-1565. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3139371

Continuum robots are able of in-situ inspection tasks in cluttered environments and narrow passages, where conventional robots and human operators cannot intervene. However, such intervention often requires the robot to interact with the environment,... Read More about Cooperative continuum robots: Enhancing individual continuum arms by reconfiguring into a parallel manipulator.

Towards the understanding the effect of surface integrity on the fatigue performance of silicon carbide particle reinforced aluminium matrix composites (2021)
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Han, X., Liao, Z., Luna, G. G., Li, H. N., & Axinte, D. (2022). Towards the understanding the effect of surface integrity on the fatigue performance of silicon carbide particle reinforced aluminium matrix composites. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 73, 518-530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2021.11.029

The fatigue performance of metal matrix composites (MMCs) is highly related to their surface integrity due to the intensive tool-particle interactions and metallographic alterations of matrix, especially under extreme cutting parameters, which could... Read More about Towards the understanding the effect of surface integrity on the fatigue performance of silicon carbide particle reinforced aluminium matrix composites.

Analytical model for predicting residual stresses in abrasive waterjet peening (2021)
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Wang, Z., Liao, Z., Axinte, D., Dong, X., Xu, D., & Augustinavicius, G. (2021). Analytical model for predicting residual stresses in abrasive waterjet peening. Materials and Design, 212, Article 110209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.110209

Abrasive waterjet peening (AWJP) is a new mechanical surface treatment where particles are delivered by a waterjet to induce plastic deformation and achieve surface strengthening effects on a workpiece. Although fatigue strength can be improved by in... Read More about Analytical model for predicting residual stresses in abrasive waterjet peening.

How non-conventional machining affects the surface integrity and magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steel (2021)
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Winter, K., Liao, Z., Ramanathan, R., Axinte, D., Vakil, G., & Gerada, C. (2021). How non-conventional machining affects the surface integrity and magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steel. Materials and Design, 210, Article 110051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.110051

Non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) laminations are commonly used to manufacture the rotor and stator core of electric machines. To achieve high machine efficiencies, it is desirable for these NOES laminations to be able to achieve a high saturation... Read More about How non-conventional machining affects the surface integrity and magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steel.

Influence of surface integrity induced by multiple machining processes upon the fatigue performance of a nickel based superalloy (2021)
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Liao, Z., Xu, D., Luna, G. G., Axinte, D., Augustinavicius, G., Sarasua, J. A., & Wretland, A. (2021). Influence of surface integrity induced by multiple machining processes upon the fatigue performance of a nickel based superalloy. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 298, Article 117313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2021.117313

Machining operations are of key importance to the fatigue performance of nickel based superalloys due to the high thermal/mechanical loadings yielded on the machined workpiece which can significantly alter the surface integrity of the components. The... Read More about Influence of surface integrity induced by multiple machining processes upon the fatigue performance of a nickel based superalloy.

On the importance of stochasticity of composite workpiece structures for post-processing operations: An analysis of errors on fixturing problems (2021)
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Gameros, A., Diaz, O. G., Axinte, D., & Novovic, D. (2021). On the importance of stochasticity of composite workpiece structures for post-processing operations: An analysis of errors on fixturing problems. Composite Structures, 274, Article 114362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.114362

As woven composites have attracted the attention of high-value industries, their broader implementation should be supported by an enhanced understating of the impact that their characteristic uneven surface has on high-precision post-processing opera... Read More about On the importance of stochasticity of composite workpiece structures for post-processing operations: An analysis of errors on fixturing problems.

Regional temperature control in ceramic injection moulding: an approach based on cooling rate optimisation (2021)
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Bianchi, M. F., Gameros, A., Axinte, D. A., Lowth, S., Cendrowicz, A. M., & Welch, S. T. (2021). Regional temperature control in ceramic injection moulding: an approach based on cooling rate optimisation. Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 68(Part A), 1767-1783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2021.06.069

The injection moulding of ceramic components with uneven wall thickness presents challenges due to differential cooling rates developing in the injected parts, which cause premature solidification of the feedstock at thin features and lead to detrime... Read More about Regional temperature control in ceramic injection moulding: an approach based on cooling rate optimisation.

An efficient follow-the-leader strategy for continuum robot navigation and coiling (2021)
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Mohammad, A., Russo, M., Fang, Y., Dong, X., Axinte, D., & Kell, J. (2021). An efficient follow-the-leader strategy for continuum robot navigation and coiling. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(4), 7493 - 7500. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3097265

Efficient path planning for hyper-redundant continuum and snake-like robots is a challenging task due to limited sensing capabilities, high computational loads, multiple possible solutions, and non-linear models. This paper presents a new approach to... Read More about An efficient follow-the-leader strategy for continuum robot navigation and coiling.

Towards understanding the thermal history of microstructural surface deformation when cutting a next generation powder metallurgy nickel-base superalloy (2021)
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la Monaca, A., Axinte, D. A., Liao, Z., M’Saoubi, R., & Hardy, M. C. (2021). Towards understanding the thermal history of microstructural surface deformation when cutting a next generation powder metallurgy nickel-base superalloy. International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture, 168(Part B), Article 103765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2021.103765

Despite the ongoing progress in metallurgical characterisation of machined surfaces, knowledge of the thermal conditions under which they originate during the workpiece-flank interaction is still lacking. When cutting advanced superalloys, little is... Read More about Towards understanding the thermal history of microstructural surface deformation when cutting a next generation powder metallurgy nickel-base superalloy.

Signal-based analysis of the dynamic behaviour of the system in inertia friction welding and its impact on part contact evolution (2021)
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Raimondi, L., Bennett, C. J., Gameros, A., & Axinte, D. (2021). Signal-based analysis of the dynamic behaviour of the system in inertia friction welding and its impact on part contact evolution. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 161, Article 107985. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2021.107985

Inertia friction welding (IFW) is a process used to create joints with high geometrical accuracy and near net shape form. To cope with the complex phenomena occurring during welding, the majority of available studies have analysed the interaction of... Read More about Signal-based analysis of the dynamic behaviour of the system in inertia friction welding and its impact on part contact evolution.

Revealing Nanoscale deformation mechanisms caused by shear-based material removal on individual grains of a Ni-based superalloy (2021)
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Axinte, D., Michler, J., Jain, M., Liao, Z., Maeder, X., Ramachandramoorthy, R., …Xu, D. (2021). Revealing Nanoscale deformation mechanisms caused by shear-based material removal on individual grains of a Ni-based superalloy. Acta Materialia, 212, Article 116929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116929

Shear-based material removal processes significantly influence the quality of workpiece surface and implicitly the component functional performance. An in-situ SEM nano-cutting enabled the study of crystal flow and lattice rotation occurring below th... Read More about Revealing Nanoscale deformation mechanisms caused by shear-based material removal on individual grains of a Ni-based superalloy.

A kinematic coupling mechanism with binary electromagnetic actuators for high-precision positioning (2021)
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Russo, M., Barrientos-Diez, J., & Axinte, D. (2022). A kinematic coupling mechanism with binary electromagnetic actuators for high-precision positioning. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 27(2), 892-903. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMECH.2021.3074286

Rather than working in a continuous range of motion, binary actuators can only maintain two positions. This lack of flexibility is compensated by high accuracy, repeatability, and reliability. These features make binary-actuated mechanisms appealing... Read More about A kinematic coupling mechanism with binary electromagnetic actuators for high-precision positioning.

Surface formation mechanism in waterjet guided laser cutting of a Ni-based superalloy (2021)
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Liao, Z., Xu, D., Axinte, D., Diboine, J., & Wretland, A. (2021). Surface formation mechanism in waterjet guided laser cutting of a Ni-based superalloy. CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology, 70(1), 155-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2021.03.007

Waterjet guided laser (WJGL) cutting is a relatively new technology for high-precision machining of difficult-to-cut materials. However, its material removal mechanism presents some unique features because of the interaction between laser, waterjet a... Read More about Surface formation mechanism in waterjet guided laser cutting of a Ni-based superalloy.