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 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.
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.
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, 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.