As a traditional high energy-consuming industry, the forging industry consumes a lot of energy. The activity consuming highest energy during forging process is the forging and heating. In order to solve the problem regarding how to separate work pieces with different holding temperature intervals and combine them for charging, a group of work pieces with compatible holding temperatures are anal...

This paper describes a review of automation techniques as currently practiced in the forging and forming industry. That industry has been relatively resistant to handling automation because of the severe challenges that are faced by having typically small batch sizes, extremely challenging operating conditions in terms of temperatures and pressures and lighting conditions. The paper discusses h...

Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of a new multi-directional power toothbrush in reducing plaque when compared to a standard manual toothbrush control in a single brushing design. Methods: This was a randomized, replicate use, single-brushing, two-treatment, double blinded crossover clinical trial at a single center. Qualified subjects entered an acclimation phase, after which they were r...

Sweeping has become the workhorse algorithm for creating conforming hexahedral meshes of complex models. This paper describes progress on the automatic, robust generation of MultiSwept meshes in CUBIT. MultiSweeping extends the class of volumes that may be swept to include those with multiple source and multiple target surfaces. While not yet perfect, CUBIT’s MultiSweeping has recently become m...