Effect of Cooling and Annealing Conditions on the Microstructure, Mechanical and Superelastic Behavior of a Rotary Forged Ti–18Zr–15Nb (at. %) Bar Stock for Spinal Implants by Konstantin Lukashevich, Vadim Sheremetyev, Alexander Komissarov, Vladimir Cheverikin, Vladimir Andreev, Sergey Prokoshkin, Vladimir Brailovski

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Nanoforging – Innovation in three-dimensional processing and shaping of nanoscaled structures by Andreas Landefeld, Joachim Rösler

“…With only three steps, a conical bar stock is transformed to a flat- and semicircular bent bar stock.Conclusion: Compared with other forming techniques in the reduced scale, nanoforging represents a beneficial approach in forming freestanding metallic structures, due to its simplicity, and supplements other forming techniques.…”
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An Accurate and Efficient Approach to Calculating the Wheel Location and Orientation for CNC Flute-Grinding by Yang Fang, Liming Wang, Jianping Yang, Jianfeng Li

“…Based on the geometrical constraint that the grinding wheel should always intersect with the bar-stock while grinding the flutes, the grinding wheel and bar-stock were simplified as an ellipse and circle via projecting in the cross-section. …”
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Design and Experimental Study of Rotary Type High-Speed Shearer for Metal Bars by Zhao Renfeng, Zhou Jingyu, Li Yan, Fan Shuqin, Li Jingxiang, Xiao Xudong, Yang Zhi

“…The experiment is carried out for the Φ8 mm diameter stainless steel bar stock by changing the speed of the cutting tool through the converter and controlling rod feeding efficiency. …”
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Chemical Eluates from Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene and Fibroblast Proliferation by Kate Y Wang, J Geoffrey Horne, Peter A Devane, Tracy Wilson, John H Miller

“…Eluates were prepared from UHMWPE bar stock and examined for their effects on 3 H-thymidine incorporation by human foreskin fibroblasts grown in 96-well culture plates. …”
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Impact of Processing on the Creep Properties of High Performance Ferritic (HiperFer) Steels by Bernd Kuhn, Michal Talik

“…This may constitute a key enabler for cost savings in component production, e.g., for the simple machining of “drop-in” turbine blades or bolts from forged bar stock material.…”
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Directed energy deposition build process control effects on microstructure and tensile failure behaviour by Tan, Eddie Zhi’En, Pang, John Hock Lye, Kaminski, Jacek

“…Tensile tests were conducted to characterise the variability in mechanical properties of the directed energy deposition built specimens compared to bar stock material properties. The results show different anisotropic properties for each build strategy. …”
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Effect of tool length on plain turning performance by Ibrahim, Norfaizem

“…Examine the relationship that exists between the length, at a specific diameter, and surface roughness of bar stock in unsupported turning operations in an attempt to reduce setup waste in turning operations. …”
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Research of High-Heat Treatment Effect on Phase and Chemical Composition of the VKNA-1V Alloy by M. V. Unchikova, Yu. V. Kostenko, O. A. Bazyleva, E. G. Arginbaeva, E. Y. Turenko

“…It examines the effect of heat treatment on the structure and phase parameters and on the short-term strength of the intermetallic VKNA-1B alloy.Smelting bar stock was made by technique of vacuum induction. …”
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Vision-based proprioception of a soft robotic finger with tactile sensing by Liu, Sandra Q.

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Exoskeleton-covered soft finger with vision-based proprioception and tactile sensing by She, Yu, Liu, Sandra Q., Yu, Peiyu, Adelson, Edward

“…Finally, we assemble 2 of the fingers together to form a robotic gripper and successfully perform a bar stock classification task, which requires both shape and tactile information. …”
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Characterization of pre-alloyed NiTi powders produced by electrode induction-melting inert gas atomization for additive manufacturing by Wang J.-W., He D.-Y., Wu X., Guo X.-Y., Tan Z., Zhou Z., Shao W.

“…The grain size of powders reduces with the decreasing of particle size. Both the bar stock and the powders of P1, P2, and P3 mainly exhibit the B2 phase. …”
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Additive friction stir deposition of AZ31B magnesium alloy by Sameehan S. Joshi, Shreyash M. Patil, Sangram Mazumder, Shashank Sharma, Daniel A. Riley, Shelden Dowden, Rajarshi Banerjee, Narendra B. Dahotre

“…The current work explored additive friction stir deposition of AZ31B magnesium alloy with the aid of MELD® technology. AZ31B magnesium bar stock was fed through a hollow friction stir tool rotating at constant velocity of 400 rpm and translating at linear velocity varied from 4.2 to 6.3 mm/s. …”
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DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROPOSALS FOR IMPROVING A SINGLE-PHASE TRANSFORMER WITH LAMINATED MAGNETIC CORE by A. A. Stavinskiy, A. M. Tsyganov

“…It was found that the decrease in the extrema of the mass and cost indicators, as well as the calculated decrease, under the condition that the coefficients of additional losses are identical, the extrema of the losses of the single-phase radial three-rod system of the transformer relative to the planar analogue with a bar stocked magnetic wire from anisotropic steel, respectively 13,0-12,3 %, 15,3-10,1 % and 15,1-18,1 % with copper windings and 10,8-10,2 %, 12,8-13,7 % and 12,6-12,3 % with aluminum windings. …”
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