Some important properties of the metal foams that make them attractive materials for various
purposes are their excellent stiffness to weight ratio (light-weight structure), ability to take up …

This article is to capture some of the important developments in the rapidly growing areas of
laser-based manufacturing and materials processing and also to describe important …

Cellular structures are promising candidates for additive manufacturing (AM) due to their
lower material and energy consumption. In this work, an efficient method is proposed for …

As a kind of novel multifunctional structure with three-dimensional pores characterized by
low relative density, lattice structures can attain a lightweight design while maintaining high …

In the context of computer numeric control (CNC)-based sheet metal laser cutting, the
problem of heat transfer simulation is relevant for the optimization of CNC programs. Current …

Over the past several decades, aluminum foam (Al-foam) has found increasing popularity in
industrial applications due to its unique material properties. Unfortunately, till date Al-foam …

The Laser Cutting Process: Analysis and Applications presents a comprehensive
understanding of the laser cutting process and its practical applications. The book includes …

This experimental work describes the utilization of a hybrid approach of regression modeling
and particle swarm optimization (PSO) for optimizing the process parameters during the …

Aluminum foams are generally very attractive because of their ability of combining different
properties such as strength, light weight, thermal, and acoustic insulation. These materials …

An analytical design for proportional integral derivative (PID) controller cascaded with a
fractional-order filter is proposed for first-order unstable processes with time delay. The …