Drilling is one of the important machining processes in hole making operations. Delamination is a vital problem during any drilling operation. It causes structural integrity reduction and poor assembly tolerance as well as potential for long-term performance deterioration. As a result, drilling of any material requires dimensional stability and interface quality. In this study, glass fibre rein...

Process capability indices are designed to describe how the process of interest can achieve to meet specification limits under a condition of statistical control. One of the capability indices is denoted as Cpm proposed by Chan, Cheng and Spiring (1988), sometimes termed the Taguchi index. The primary goal of this paper attempts to construct a confidence interval for Cpm, which measures proces...

Metal matrix composites (MMCs) are now gaining their usage in aerospace, automotive and biomedical industries because of their inherent properties like high strength to weight ratio, low wear rate etc. To machine these types of materials conventional machining methods are unsuitable because of high tool wear and tooling cost. Electrochemical Machining (ECM) is one of the important non-tradition...

The utilization of TiB2 particles reinforced aluminum (Al6063) metal matrix composite materials in many different engineering fields has undergone a tremendous increase. Accordingly, the need of accurate machining of composites has increased enormously; an attempt has been made to assess the factors influencing surface roughness and material removal rate on machining the composite. The orthogon...

Modernization of mechanical industry has lead to the increase in demand for hard and tough materials and thus various non traditional methods have been developed in order to machine such hard and tough materials. Wire Electric discharge machine is one of the most commonly used machine which is employed in machining of conductive metals of any hardness or that are difficult or impossible to cut ...

The present work analyses different parameters of pressure die casting to minimize the casting defects. Pressure diecasting is usually applied for casting of aluminium alloys. Good surface finish with required tolerances and dimensional accuracy can be achieved by optimization of controllable process parameters such as solidification time, molten temperature, filling time, injection pressure an...

In this paper, a novel binary fruit fly optimization algorithm (bFOA) is proposed to solve the multidimensional knapsack problem (MKP). In the bFOA, binary string is used to represent the solution of the MKP, and three main search processes are designed to perform evolutionary search, including smell-based search process, local vision-based search process and global vision-based search process....

Received Jun 8, 2017 Revised Aug 10, 2017 Accepted Aug 24, 2017 The term “appropriate parameters” signifies the correct choice of values has considerable effect on the performance that directs the search process towards the global optima. The performance typically is measured considering both quality of the results obtained and time requires in finding them. A genetic algorithm is a search and ...

WEDM is a one of the non-conventional machining processes used for machining complex shape components and hard materials to produce intricate shapes on the wide variety of materials. With the increasing demands of high surface finish and high rate of MRR of complex shape geometries, WEDM machining process is now being replaced by non-traditional machining processes. According to this paper, opt...

This paper presents a methodology for selection of optimal softu’are design parameters using the experimental design. When an organization is at the point of taking up a new project with an objective of improving the software quality, Taguchi method is appliedfor the software design process with an objective that not more than one error is found per software module. The strategy in robust desig...