Product Design and Manufacturing

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: The areas covered are advanced design technology; computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering; mechanical dynamics and its applications; and friction and wear. The some 150 papers discuss such matters as applying the single-point incremental forming technology of sheet metal in bus prototyping, creep behavior and mechanical properties of carbon fiber nano-composites, image registration based on mutual information and corner points, error interpretation for turbine vanes based on reverse engineering, the stability and natural characteristics of a supported beam, the influence of nozzle size and nozzle distance on the thickness of wall-wetted oil film, an improved design of universal multi-functional focusing mirrors for laser heat treatment, and a new method for measuring rotary precision in lathe spindles.