Tolerancing Challenges with Additive Manufacturing
Funding: NIST, Department of Commerce, USA
Funds awarded: $116,000
Proposed Timeline: August 2014 to June 2015
Indo-US Joint Center on Design of Sustainable Products, Services and Manufacturing Systems
Funding: Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, India (link)
Funds awarded: $162,700
Proposed Timeline: August 2013 to July 2015
PI's: Ameta G., Washington State University, Pullman WA, USA and Chakrabarti A, Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, India.
Partners: Davidson C., Syracuse University, USA; Dornfeld D., University of California, Berkley, CA, USA; Krishnan S.S., Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, Banglore, India; and Gupta A., Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
State of the art and current industry practices for modeling and exchange of composites information in PLM
Funding: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Funds awarded: $31,000
Timeline: May 2012 - Aug 2012
Publication in this project
- Ameta G., Brown C., Lubell J. and Lipman R., "A Survey of Standards for the Lifecycle Management of Composite Structural Products", Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineering- International Design Engineering Technical Conference-2013/ Computers and Information in Engineering-12655, Portland, OR, USA, Aug 4 - 7.
Novel Geometric Metric for Sustainability
Funding: National Science Foundation - Site REU and self supported students
Publications as part of this research topic
- Raman A., and Ameta G., "Novel Multi-Dimensional Geometric Metric for Uncertainty in Life-Cycle Assessment", Wiley Research Exposition, 2013, WSU, Pullman, WA.
- Noah G. and Ameta G., “Poster: Towards a Multidimensional Geometric Metric for Sustainability”, Summer REU, 2010.
- Ameta G., “Towards a Novel Geometric Metric for Sustainability Assessment”, PerMis Conference, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, September 21st-23rd 2009.
Students on this research topic
- Arvind Raman Shankar is working towards his MS as part of this project
- Amaninder Gill is working towards his MS as part of this project
- Noah Grainieri worked as Summer REU as part of this project
Framework to support Sustainable Design
Funding: MME Department support with Teaching Assistants
Publications in this research topic
- Three Journal papers are currently under review.
- Huang H., "A CAD-Based Software Framework for Estimating Energy Through a Product Lifecycle", Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
- Huang H. and Ameta G., “Towards a Computational Framework for Energy Estimation -- Needs, Requirements, and Its Generic Shell”, Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineering-Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference-2010, Montreal, CA, USA, Aug 15 - 18.
- Huang H. and Ameta G., “A Bi-level Framework for Estimating Manufacturing Energy and Carbon Weights of Turned Parts”, Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineering-Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference-2009, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Oct 4 - 7.
- Ameta G., Huang H. and Mahesh M., “A Bi-level Framework for Estimating Manufacturing Energy and Carbon Weights of Milled Parts and Assemblies”, Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineering-International Design Engineering Technical Conference-2009/ Computers and Information in Engineering-86805, San Deigo, CA, USA, August 30 - September 29.
Students on this reseach topic
- He Huang finished his Ph.D. as part of this project
Sustainable Selective Disassembly Planning
Funding: MME Department support with Teaching Assistants and self supported students
Publications in this research topic
- Yang Hu and Ameta G., "Poster: Graph based automatic computation of product disassembly time from assembly models", Wiley Research Exposition, 2013, WSU, Pullman, WA.
- Srinivasan R., Hu Yang and Ameta G., "Poster:Estimating Selective Disassembly Time using Disassembly Graph based on Connective Complexity Metrics", CIE Poster Award, International Design Engineering Technical Conference-2012/ Computers and Information in Engineering, Chicago, IL, USA, Aug 11 - 14, 2012.
- Srinivasan R., "Sustainability Analysis and Connective Complexity Method for Selective Disassembly Time Prediction", MS Thesis, 2011, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
- Srinivasan R. and Ameta G., “Poster: Use - phase energy impact of two toasters: towards sustainable selective disassembly planning”, Proceedings of American Society of Mechanical Engineering-Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference -2010, Erie, PA, Oct 12-15.
Students on this research topic
- Yang Hu is working towards her MS as part of this project
- Raghunathan Srinivasan finished his MS as part of this project
Tolerance Analysis, Allocation and Evaluation
Funding: National Science Foundation - Site REU, MME Department Support with Teaching Assistants+Equipment and self supported students
Publications in this research topic
- Gagandeep Singh, Ameta G., Davidson J.K., and Shah J.J., "Tolerance Analysis of a Self-Aligning Coupling Assembly using Tolerance-Maps in Design", Vol 135(3), Journal of Mechanical Design, March 2013, 14pp.
- Anazi M., "Effects of Arm Positions in a Stereolithography Machine on Geometric Quality of Manfuactured Surface", M.S. Project Report, 2012, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
- Ameta G., "Towards Establishing the Energy Profile for Geometric Variations of a Planar Surface", 12th CIRP Conference on Computer Aided Tolerancing, University of Huddersfield, 18th - 19th April 2012.
- Godinez, A. and Ameta G., "Poster:Flatness evaluation for a v-flash rapid prototype (rp) machine", Summer REU posters, Washington State University, 2012.
- Ameta G., Samper S. and Giordano M., "Comparison of Spatial Math Models for Tolerance Analysis: Tolerance-Maps, Deviation Domain, and TTRS", Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 11(2), 021004, 8pp, 2011.
- Ameta G., Davidson J.K., and Shah J.J., "Effects of Size, Orientation, and Form Tolerances on the Frequency Distributions of clearance between two planar faces", Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 11(1), 011002, 10pp, 2011, Journal's Impact factor -0.784
- Ameta G., Davidson J.K., and Shah J.J., "Influence of form on Tolerance-Map-generated frequency distributions for 1-D clearance in design", Journal of Precision Engineering. Vol 34, pp 22-27, 2010. Journal's impact factor - 1.137
- Ameta G., Davidson J.K., and Shah J.J., "Statistical Tolerance Allocation for Tab-Slot Assemblies using Tolerance-Maps", Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol 10(1), 2010. Journal's impact factor - 0.784
- Ameta G., and Hoffmann P., “Ontological Model of Tolerances for Interoperability in Product Life Cycle”, Chapter 26 In Geometric Variations within Product Lifecycle management (Selected Papers from the 11th CIRP International Conference on Computer-Aided Tolerancing, held at Université de Savoie, Annecy, France, 26-27 March 2009), Editors Max Giordano, Luc Mathieu and François Villeneuve, 2010, ISTE, HERMES publishers, London, UK.
- Ameta G., "Recent Patents on Mechanical Tolerancing", Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering, Vol 2(1), pp 55-60, January 2009.
- Singh G., Ameta G., Davidson J.K. and Shah J.J., “Worst-Case Tolerance Analysis of a Self-Aligning Coupling Assembly using Tolerance-Maps”, (Best Paper Award) Proc., 11th CIRP Int'l Seminar on CAT, March 22-23, 2009, Annecy, France.
- Many other publications before joining WSU.
Students on this research topic
- Mohammed Anazi finished his MSE as part of this project
- Abdon Godinez worked in this area as Summer REU