Manufacturing processes is an "umbrella" term which covers a wide range of diverse processes. They are used to manufacture products, where they transform raw materials into finished goods. Such finished goods may be used to produce other more complex products (such as aircraft, cars etc) or sold to consumers.
Over the past 20 years we have investigated manufacturing processes through a series of research projects that studied material behaviour in joining / welding , sheet metal forming, the use of nano materials in composites, and extended investigations of material behaviour.
Our efforts together with researchers and industrial partners from Greece, the Northwestern Polytechnical University in China and the Ufa State Aviation Technical University at the Russian Federation have produced to date a number of scientific papers on these subjects.
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Selected papers on Manufacturing processes
Vairis, A., “Superplasticity Effects and Strain Rate Dependency in a Material Joining Process”, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review, 2008, vol.1, pp.28-32.
Alexopoulos, A., Favvas, E.P., Vairis, A., Mitropoulos, A.Ch,.“MWCNTs/resin nanocomposites: structural, thermal, mechanical and dielectric investigation”, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review, 2015, vol.8, no.4, pp.7-14.
Vairis, A., Petousis, M., Vidakis, N., Savvakis, K., “On the Strain Rate Sensitivity of Abs and Abs Plus Fused Deposition Modelling Parts, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2016, DOI 10.1007/s11665-016-2198-x.
Li, N., Li, W.Y., Yang, XW., Xu, Y., Vairis, A., "Corrosion characteristics and wear performance of cold sprayed coatings of reinforced Al deposited onto friction stir welded AA2024-T3 joints”, Surface & Coatings Technology, vol.349, pp.1069-1076. Doi:10.1016/j.surfcoat.2018.06.058.
Su, Y., Li, W.Y., Liu, X., Gao, F., Vairis, A., “Strengthening mechanism of friction stir welded alpha titanium alloy specially designed T-joints”, Journal of Manufacturing Processes, 2020 accepted (IF: 3.462)
Sapalidis, A., Karantzis, P., Vairis, A., Nitodas, S., Barbe, S., Favvas, E., "A Study of the Reinforcement Effect of MWCNTs onto Polyimide Flat Sheet Membranes", Polymers, 2020, vol.12, no.6, pp.1381.
Christakis, N., Vairis, A., “The application of computer-aided methodologies in industrial process optimisation”, 4th International Conference in Industry, Business and Education, Corfu, 25-26 August 2005, pp.322-328, ISBN 960-85316-9-1.
Karachalios, E., Vairis, A., “The study of design constants in sheet metal forming”, 2nd International Conference “From Scientific Computing to Computational Engineering”, Athens, 5-8 July 2006, ISBN 960-530-080-X
Vairis, A., “Material flow modelling in a manufacturing process”, 8th HSTAM International Congress on Mechanics, Patras, 12 – 14 July, 2007, pp.773-778.
Karachalios, E., Vairis, A., “Bend Allowance Constants For Use In Sheet Metal Forming”, 2nd International Conference on Experiments / Process / System / Modelling / Simulation & Optimization, Athens, 4-7 July 2007, ISBN 960-530-090-7.
Alexopoulos, N., Lazaridou, I., Vairis, A., Petousis, M., “The effect of different carbon nanotube concentration on glass fiber reinforced plastic coupons under progressive damage accumulation tests”, 16th European Conference on Composite Materials ECCM 2014, Seville, 22-26 June 2014.
Lazaridou, I., Alexopoulos, N.D., Vairis, A., Petousis, M., “Mechanical behavior of MWCNT reinforced GFRP composites under fatigue constant amplitude loadings with the presence of artificial notches”, Second International Conference on Advances in Mechanical and Robotics Engineering - AMRE 2014, Zurich, 25-26 October 2014
Karantzis, P., Favvas, E.P., Alexopoulos, A., Vairis, A., Mitropoulos, A.Ch., “A study of MWCNTs behaviour as filler material in P84 polyimide films”, Fourth International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science, Riva del Garda, 20-22 May 2015.
Lazaridou, I., Alexopoulos, A., Favvas, E.P., Petousis, M., Vairis, A., “Fatigue mechanical behavior of MWCNT reinforced GFRP composites with surface artificial defects”, 20th International Conference on Composite Materials, Copenhagen, 19-24 July 2015.
Alexopoulos, N., Vairis, A., Petousis, M., “A study of fatigue mechanical properties of CNT composites”, 9th International Conference “New Horizons in Industry, Business and Education”, Skiathos, 27-29 August 2015, pp.99-103.