Mechatronics and Manufacturing Engineering

Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects. J. Paulo Davim received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, the Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with a MBA and Specialist title in Engineering and Industrial Management. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management & Industrial Engineering and Higher Education for Sustainability & Engineering Education. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and masters students as well as coordinated & participated in several research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 25 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 80 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 100 books and as author (and co-author) more than 10 books, 80 book chapters and 400 articles in journals and conferences (more than 200 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 45+/6000+ citations and SCOPUS/h-index 52+/8000+ citations).

• List of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAbout the contributorsChapter 1: Implementation of light-scattering instrumentation: innovation, design and developmentAbstract:Glossary1.1 Introduction1.2 Application and need1.3 Innovation1.3.1 Innovation strategies1.4 Do the right thing1.5 Funding1.6 The prototype1.7 How to keep ahead of the competition – design in saleability!1.8 The evolutionary history of the NS4910 protein aggregation monitor (PAM)1.9 Conclusions1.11 AcknowledgementsChapter 2: Planar micromanipulation on microconveyor platforms: recent developmentsAbstract:2.1 Introduction2.2 Microconveyor platforms for micromanipulation2.3 Manipulation of parts on microconveyor platforms: an integrated approach for programmable force field design and platform programming2.4 Future research directions and conclusionsChapter 3: Single-axis arm designed with an ultrasonic motor: basic active/passive joint torque controlAbstract:3.1 Introduction3.2 Single-axis arm designed with an ultrasonic motor3.3 Control system3.4 Example of application3.5 ConclusionsChapter 4: Signal processing for tool condition monitoring: from wavelet analysis to sparse decompositionAbstract:4.1 Overview of tool condition monitoring and signal processing issues4.2 Signal space, linear system and Fourier transform4.3 Wavelet analysis4.4 Sparse coding4.5 Applications4.6 ConclusionsChapter 5: ANN modelling of fractal dimension in machiningAbstract:5.1 Introduction5.2 Basic considerations5.3 CNC end milling5.4 CNC turning5.5 Cylindrical grinding5.6 Electrical discharge machining5.7 ConclusionChapter 6: Predicting forces and damage in drilling of polymer composites: soft computing techniquesAbstract:6.1 Drilling of polymer composites6.2 Soft computing techniquesChapter 7: Minimising burr size in drilling: integrating response surface methodology with particle swarm optimisationAbstract:7.1 Introduction7.2 Response surface methodology7.3 Particle swarm optimisation7.4 Experimental details7.5 Results and discussion7.6 ConclusionsChapter 8: Single-point incremental forming of polymersAbstract:8.1 Introduction8.2 Theoretical framework8.3 Experimental background8.4 Results and discussion8.5 Conclusions8.6 AcknowledgmentIndex