Publications related to Tool management

Optimization of composition and structure of cemented carbide cutting tools

WC-Co cemented carbides are composites, which combine a hard phase consisting of WC grains and a metallic ductile phase as a binder. Their excellent mechanical properties, combining high hardness, toughness and refractory properties, make them excellent ma ...

EPFL2021

Risk assessment in a chemical plant with a CPN-HAZOP Tool

Damiano Nunzio Arena

In a previous research, a tool integrating the HAZOP analysis method and Coloured Petri Net formalism to support the analysis carried out by specialists during a HAZOP brainstorming session has been provided. In that work, the tool was used to simulate the ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

STEP-NC digital thread for additive manufacturing: data model, implementation and validation

Ian Anthony Stroud, Pascal Mognol

Substantial progress and development in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have been realised during the last decade but have hardly been implemented on AM systems due to old numerical solutions still used by the AM digital thread, for instance STL ( ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2018

Stereolithography-Based Antennas for Satellite Communications in Ka-Band

Juan Ramon Mosig, Tomislav Debogovic, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva

This paper illustrates the role of additive manufacturing (AM) as enabling technology to realize high-performance low-cost antennas for Ka-band applications. In addition to the inherent electromagnetic challenges implicit in the conception of such complex ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

STEP-NC compliant process planning of additive manufacturing: remanufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um

Additive manufacturing is becoming one of the key methods for reproducing repair sections in remanufacturing processes. The major advantage of using additive processes is to minimize production time and waste. However, the surface quality and shape accurac ...

Springer London Ltd2017

Méthodes de production par ultrasons, de la théorie à l'application industrielle

Csaba Laurenczy

The principle of the superposition of ultrasonic frequency vibrations to conventional machining techniques is known and practiced since the 1950s under the name of ultrasonic machining. Using ultrasonics, many good properties appear including reduced thrus ...

EPFL2015

Modeling chloride transport using travel time distributions at Plynlimon, Wales

Andrea Rinaldo, Paolo Benettin, Gianluca Botter

Here we present a theoretical interpretation of high-frequency, high-quality tracer time series from the Hafren catchment at Plynlimon in mid-Wales. We make use of the formulation of transport by travel time distributions to model chloride transport origin ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance as a Sensitive Detector of Metabolic Function

Arnaud Comment

Hyperpolarized magnetic resonance allows for noninvasive measurements of biochemical reactions in vivo. Although this technique provides a unique tool for assaying enzymatic activities in intact organs, the scope of its application is still elusive for the ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Factory planning system considering energy-efficient process under cloud manufacturing

Ian Anthony Stroud, Jumyung Um, Yong Chan Choi

Cloud computing sets to make a change in business between enterprises over the Internet based on services providing dynamically reconfigurable and virtualized networks. It is difficult for an aircraft manufacturer to consider the performance and status of ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Part Programming to Realize Chatter Free and Efficient High Speed Milling

Saurabh Aggarwal

High speed milling (HSM) is the most known machining process due to its application in various industries. In milling, a rotating cutting tool removes a large amount of material along a predefined toolpath to manufacture the final part with a desired shape ...

EPFL2012

Generation and characterization of a Notch1 signaling-specific reporter mouse line

Freddy Radtke, Yann Barrandon, Rajwinder Lehal, Stéphanie Claudinot, Luca Pellegrinet

Signaling through the Notch1 receptor is essential for the control of numerous developmental processes during embryonic life as well as in adult tissue homeostasis and disease. Since the outcome of Notch1 signaling is highly context-dependent, and its prec ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

Selection of Optimal Cutting Conditions for Pocket Milling Using Genetic Algorithm

Paul Xirouchakis, Saurabh Aggarwal

Pocket milling is the most known machining operation in the domains of aerospace, die and mold manufacturing. In the present work, GA-OptMill, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based optimization system for minimization of pocket milling time, is developed. A wide ...

Springer London Ltd2013

Modeling and Simulation of Energy Efficient Milling Process Plans for Prismatic Parts

Nenad Nesic

The milling process has been continuously optimized from many aspects: forces, velocities, stability, quality. Numerous papers have been published that report results in the domain of toolpath optimization with criteria such as raising the quality of the m ...

EPFL2012

NC tool path evaluator and generator for high speed milling

Sandeep Dhanik

Milling is a most common type of material removal process by rotating tools to create a variety of features on a part. The material is removed in a controlled way by sweeping a rotating cylindrical tool along the specific trajectory known as milling tool p ...

EPFL2009

SUNtool - A new modelling paradigm for simulating and optimising urban sustainability

Jessen Page, Darren Robinson, Nicolas Morel

This paper describes the development and application of a new unique tool to support designers to optimise the sustainability of urban neighbourhoods (SUNtool). In this the paper introduces (i) the software architecture, (ii) the integrated solver and rela ...

2007

Site selective functionalizations of fluorinated heterocycles

Heterocyclic chem. continues to be in the focus of life science-oriented research. Fluorine, a unique tool for finetuning biol. properties, offers an extra bonus in this context. The lecture features three pertinent issues. First, proven and novel routes t ...

2006