A treatment consisting of resistance heat treatment and artificial aging was developed to improve the product strength and press formability of Al-Mg-Si alloy sheets having paint bake hardenability used for automobile...
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A treatment consisting of resistance heat treatment and artificial aging was developed to improve the product strength and press formability of Al-Mg-Si alloy sheets having paint bake hardenability used for automobile body panels. In this treatment, the sheets are re-solution heat-treated by resistance heating and water quenching just before the press forming. The formed sheets are artificially aged just after the press forming to increase the product strength. In the experiment, Al-0.60%Si-0.74%Mg (A6061) alloy sheets were chosen. The solution heat treatment of the sheets was sufficiently accomplished by the rapid resistance heat treatment, and the press formability of the sheets was improved. The hardness of formed products is increased by the artificial aging and paint bake hardening. It was found that the present heat treatment is effective in improving the product strength and press formability of the Al-Mg-Si alloy sheets having the paint bake hardenability.
The Department of Systems engineering at the United States Military Academy (USMA) offers an undergraduate major in engineering Management. This multi-disciplinary major is accredited by the Accreditation Board of Eng...
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The Andon device is traditionally used in the manufacturing industry. This visual management tool shows the status of operations in an area and signalizes the occurrence of abnormalities. This research work takes the ...
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The Andon device is traditionally used in the manufacturing industry. This visual management tool shows the status of operations in an area and signalizes the occurrence of abnormalities. This research work takes the view that its application is connected to lean construction concepts, as its main function is to identify problems within the production line. It becomes possible to determine the origin of the production disturbances during the building process and not only at the end of it, in a way that the required measures can be taken to avoid the repetition of such problems. It is noticed also that the use of Andon improves the continuous flow of the activities and avoids rework. Moreover it provides operative crews and production managers the opportunity of learning. The application of this managerial tool has gained adepts in construction companies in the Brazilian northeast. The objective of this article is to show the steps for the application of this tool within the building construction environment. This work was developed through a case study in a multi-storey building construction and it encompasses hardware installation (both at the work place and management office), development of control charts, and the production problems analyzes. This study is concluded with the presentation of the results acquired with the use of this managerial tool. The number of work stoppages was reduced significantly, communication was greatly enhanced and transparency was enacted as production problems were readily reported, discussed and analysed.
This work presents a new global optimization algorithm based on differential evolution (DE) method and DE combined with chaotic sequences (DEC) given by logistic map. In this paper, the optimal shape design of Loney...
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Over the past two decades the oil and gas industry has paid attention to the need of achieving reliability in well design. Reliability issues were addressed with little or no additional effort above and beyond standar...
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This paper presents a new discrete-time sliding-mode control design for multiple-input multi-output (MIMO) systems with tuning parameters by particle swarm optimization (PSO). PSO is a kind of evolutionary algorithm b...
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Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population-based swarm intelligence algorithm that shares many similarities with evolutionary computation techniques. However, the PSO is driven by the simulation of a social psy...
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The uncertain nature of construction requires the use of tools that generate useful information and support decision making in each phase of the product development process (PDP). Experimentation techniques have been ...
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The uncertain nature of construction requires the use of tools that generate useful information and support decision making in each phase of the product development process (PDP). Experimentation techniques have been adopted by other industrial sectors with the aim of supporting product development, especially due to the existing uncertainty and risk. However, those techniques have been poorly used in construction, especially in the study of production processes at building sites. This paper describes three studies that were carried out in construction companies with the aim of investigating the role of two experimentation techniques, FRS and on-line learning, and also the requirements for their implementation. The results suggest that these techniques can be used to understand work methods and to establish standard operation elements. The production constraints did not allow the standard work to be fully adopted and interrupted the continuity of the cycle observation - reflection - action that could create in-depth knowledge on work methods. The paper discusses the requirements for establishing an appropriate environment in order to increase the prototyping contributions for creating an in-depth knowledge on work-methods.
Advanced conceptions to design industrial control systems are, in general, dependent of mathematical models of the controlled process. Also, the task of the controllers is to achieve an optimum performance when facing...
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This work presents the use of particle swarm optimization (PSO) techniques with the particles' population space based on normative knowledge of cultural algorithms (CA). In this work, the optimal shape design of L...
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