Abstract
Some recent trends and developments in advanced manufacturing of advanced materials from macro- to nanoscale subjected to impact and shock loading, with industrial applications to net-shape manufacturing, bioengineering, safety, transport, energy and environment, an outcome of the very extensive, over 45 years, work on this field performed by the author and his research international team, are briefly outlined. The benefits of such advanced materials, manufacturing and loading techniques, products and applications in many technological areas are significant, since their impact will make the manufacturing/machine tool sector, communications, transportations, data storage, health treatment, energy conservation, environmental and human-life protection and many other technological applications better, faster, safer, cleaner and cheaper.
Highlights
The performance of the machine tools together with the tool design are very important, whilst, the techno-economic aspects, e.g. manufacturing systems, automation, modeling and simulation, rapid prototyping, process planning and computer integrated manufacturing, energy conservation and recycling as well as environmental aspects are important in manufacturing engineering [1]
Advanced manufacturing is related to the tendency to miniaturization and is accompanied by the continuous increasing of the accuracy of the manufactured parts
Precision/ultraprecision engineering, carried out by machine tools with very high accuracy, and nanotechnology processing, defined as the fabrication of devices with atomic or molecular scale precision by employing new advanced energy beam processes that allow for atom manipulation, constitute the two main trends towards product miniaturization, see Figure 1(b)
Summary
Dimensional and shape accuracy, surface integrity as well as the functional properties of manufactured parts mainly determine their quality. Precision/ultraprecision engineering, carried out by machine tools with very high accuracy, and nanotechnology processing, defined as the fabrication of devices with atomic or molecular scale precision by employing new advanced energy beam processes that allow for atom manipulation, constitute the two main trends towards product miniaturization, see Figure 1(b). Manufacture of nanostructured materials (carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles), having every atom or molecule in a designated location and exhibiting novel and significantly improved optical, chemical, mechanical and electrical properties, is made possible Note that, nanoparticles have larger
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