Nowadays, coatings have been widely deposited on cutting tool inserts due to their superior
wear resistant and thermal barrier effect in metal manufacturing industry. Tool coatings avoid …

Laser additive manufacturing using directed energy deposition (LAM-DED) is an advanced
manufacturing process widely deployed for fabricating near net-shaped engineering …

Manufacturing industries are constantly pressured by market demands to produce low-cost,
high-quality products. Market demands tend to be complex and full of variations, especially …

Functionally graded materials (FGMs) refer to advanced engineering materials that exhibit
exceptional thermo-mechanical characteristics due to their intrinsic spatial variation in …

Recently, 3D printing is a very promising method for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor
packaging, the physical and chemical properties of the printing materials will directly affect …

As advances in manufacturing technology grow, so does the need for better cutting tools and
sensors to execute and monitor manufacturing processes, respectively. By integrating these …

A tool system integrated with machining and measurement is constructed by using thin film
strain sensors and tool integration technology, which provides a new research method for …

Additive manufacturing (AM) enables the spatially configurable 3D integration of sensors in
metal components to realize smart materials and structures. Outstanding sensing …

Metal components with integrated sensing technologies are currently an interesting yet
challenging process. The industry's demand for embedded sensors for long-lasting …

This paper describes a combined fabrication method for creating a bi-material micro-scale
coating on fiber Bragg grating (FBG) optical sensors using laser-assisted maskless …