The aerospace community widely uses difficult-to-cut materials, such as titanium alloys, high-
temperature alloys, metal/ceramic/polymer matrix composites, hard and brittle materials, and …

Hard and brittle materials (HBMs) are promising materials for aerospace and astronomy
applications, due to their excellent mechanical, optical, and chemical properties. However …

Laser-assisted machining is a promising method to achieve high efficiency and low damage
when machining high-strength alloys. To explore the surface formation in laser-assisted …

Manufacturing activity is a major consumer of energy and natural resources. In machining
process, a large amount of heat is produced whose removal requires the use of suitable …

Titanium alloys are known as difficult-to-machine materials. The problems of machining
titanium are many folds which depend on types of titanium alloys. This paper investigates …

Hybrid additive manufacturing (hybrid-AM) has described hybrid processes and machines
as well as multimaterial, multistructural, and multifunctional printing. The capabilities …

The brittle–ductile transition (BDT) widely exists in the manufacturing with extremely small
deformation scale, thermally assisted machining, and high-speed machining. This paper …

The use of cryogenic coolant in metal cutting has received renewed recent attention
because liquid nitrogen is a safe, clean, non-toxic coolant that requires no expensive …

Surface defects like porosity, cracks, coarse grains, surface roughness, etc. have a huge
impact on the strength and performance of materials. Due to this, surface treatments have …

Today, hybrid manufacturing technology has drawn significant interests from both academia
and industry due to the capability to make products in a more efficient and productive way …