ultrasonic vibration assisted single point incremental forming (uvaspif) process is an attractive and adaptive method in which a sheet metal is gradually and locally formed by a vibrating hemispherical-head tool. the ultrasonic excitation of forming tool reduces the average of vertical component of forming force and spring-back rate of the formed sample. the spring-back phenomenon is one of the...

The present study aims to shed some light on an old controversy about the joint impact of acquiescence and social desirability on item responses. There are two main hypotheses: (a) of the two biases, social desirability is by far the prime determinant, and (b) acquiescence operates in all sorts of items, including those impacted by social desirability. A new methodology is harnessed to assess t...

The purpose of this article was to present a new drying method for agricultural products. Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) has been applied for drying of agricultural materials due to several advantages such as energy saving, low cost equipment, low drying temperatures, and superior material quality. To evaluate this method, an EHD dryer based on solar (photovoltaic) energy was designed and fabricated...

With the aim to improve the mass rearing feasibility of tobacco budworm, Helicoverpa armigera Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), design of experimental methodology using Taguchi orthogonal array was applied. To do so, the effect of 16 ingredients of an artificial diet including bean, wheat germ powder, Nipagin, ascorbic acid, formaldehyde, oil, agar, distilled water, ascorbate, yeast, chloramphen...

Optimization of multi response surface (MRS) in robust designs is applied to determine optimum characteristics of a process in a satisfactory region and reduce variation of responses. In this paper, a methodology is proposed for optimizing multi response surface in robust designs, which optimizes mean and variance simultaneously by applying fuzzy set theory. At first, a method is proposed to co...

In this study, injection molding of three poly lactic acid (PLA) based bone screws was simulated and optimized through minimizing the shrinkage and warpage of the bone screws. The optimization was carried out by investigating the process factors such as coolant temperature, mold temperature, melt temperature, packing time, injection time, and packing pressure. A response surface methodology (RS...

saturated fat consumption increases the risk of both coronary and cancer diseases. therefore, fat reduction in uf-feta cheese (≈ 45% fdm) is favorable but, unfortunately, it has some negative effects on the texture and sensory characteristics of the cheese. in this research, response surface methodology was employed to study the probably improving effects of wpc80 (0-20 gr kg-1), lecithin (0-2 ...

This paper presents an investigation on WEDM of pure titanium (grade-2). An attempt has been made to model the response variable i.e. surface roughness in WEDM process using response surface methodology. The experimental plan is based on Box-Behnken design. Six parameters i.e. pulse on time, pulse off time, peak current, spark gap voltage, wire feed and wire tension has been varied to investiga...