Casting is the preferred primary manufacturing process for many industrial components as it offers processing flexibility and economy. Use of microwave energy for casting is usually motivated by time compression, eco-friendly ...

Epoxy is a thermosetting polymer and due to its versatile characteristic it is made useful as matrix material in fabrication of polymer composite. Wide diversity of epoxy composites make its application in different ...

The invention of novel functional materials and their investigation at the molecular level are vital in today’s nanotechnology era. Atomistic modelling approaches are cost-effective and time-consuming alternatives to ...

The in-situ microwave casting of metallic materials is a recently developed casting process. The process works on the principles of hybrid microwave heating and is accomplished inside the applicator cavity. The process ...

The use of microwave for sintering of green compacts during powder metallurgy process is emerging as a novel and innovative technology with many advantages over conventional sintering. This review paper provides the ...

Processing of metallic materials using microwave energy has been a challenge. However, exploiting the size factor of particles in these candidate materials opened up further opportunities. The amount of heat evolved inside ...

The present experimental study was carried out to explore the possibility of joining mild steel (MS) pipes using microwave hybrid heating (MHH) technique. Candidate MS pipes, with a thin sandwich layer of Ni powder in ...

The demand for processing of aluminum alloys is increasing owing to their extensive use in high specific strength products. Consequently, need for development of a faster and economic route to process such materials has ...

Efforts to use microwaves in material processing are gradually increasing. However, the phenomena associated with the processing are less understood; popular mechanisms such as dipolar heating and conduction heating have ...

The wire and Arc Additive Manufacturing process has marked attention due to its higher deposition rates and lower fabrication cost. Many of the researchers have investigated the effect of process parameters of arc-based ...