Friction stir welding (FSW) of high-strength materials like Inconel 718 and steel is more challenging than welding softer materials for several reasons, including high tool degradation and the potential for defective joint ...

The emerging interest to minimize fuel consumption and carbon emission, lightweight component design has become one of the important goals in the automotive industries. Among the lightweight materials, aluminium alloys are ...

The surface roughness of any component is a major concern in the medical, automotive, aerospace, military, and other industries. The performance and life of the components depend primarily on their surface quality. The ...

Real-world engineering systems are characterized by inherent uncertainty arising from factors such as incomplete knowledge of the physical system and dynamic working environments. Traditional deterministic design optimization ...

Fretting is a surface damage phenomenon and is observed at the contact interfaces like bolted, gasketed joints etc. Fretting related failures are observed in multiple components of an internal combustion engine. Such ...

Surface topography on implant surface at different length-scales are known to provide either mechanical stability or promote bone growth. Macro-textured surfaces are primarily provided to enhance mechanical stability to ...

The usage of polymer gears has increased significantly due to the improvements in design practices, material properties and manufacturing accuracy. In polymer gear drives, asymmetric tooth profile and polymer mating gear ...

Electric discharge alloying (EDA) is one of the evolving and promising techniques in the field of surface alloying. In EDA, deliberate transfer of tool material over the workpiece surface along with decomposed dielectric ...

Additive manufacturing (AM) has gained enormous attention in the present digital era of sustainable manufacturing. It is popularly known as 3D printing and is one of the foundations of the fourth industrial revolution, ...

Higher wave drag is a common problem for an object flying in the supersonic or hypersonic flow regime. Hence, the present investigations use computational fluid dynamics as a tool to study the dynamics of flow field to ...