Boboulos Miltiadis A. Manufacturing Processes and Materials: Exercises

Bookboon, 2010. — 124 p. — ISBN: 978-87-7681-695-7The edition addresses issues essential to modern manufacturing, ranging from traditional topics such as casting, forming, machining, and joining, to advanced topics such as the fabrication of nanomaterials. Comprehensive coverage of relevant engineering fundamentals and traditional as well as advanced applications of manufacturing processes and operations. This book is written primarily for students in the mechanical, industrial, and metallurgical and materials engineering programs. A solid introduction to the fundamentals of manufacturing along with the most up-to-date information. Manufacturing processes and the concepts dealing with producing quality products are also covered.Non-conventional manufacturing processes
The Electro-discharge Machining (EDM) process
Factors causing tool wear
Acceptance sampling
Principles of the Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM)
Fibre reinforced plastic composites
A cutting test on a steel bar
Electro-discharge machining (EDM) requirements & properties
Hard and soft automation
Surface integrity of manufactured surfaces: properties & applications
Bored holes - plug and gap gauges
Integrated Manufacturing Systems: a facility of large and small machines
Simulation method, determining the time to complete the batch and the machine utilisation
Plain carbon steels and high strength low alloy steels (HSLA)
Ferritic stainless steel & the mechanism of corrosion
Impact Strength (J) to Test Temperature
Metal and polymer material applicability
Maximum tolerable through thickness crack size
Glass fibres production - Reinforced composite design