Fabrication of aluminum-based composites reinforced by ceramic particles or intermetallic phases has focused considerable attention in recent decades because significant improvement in mechanical properties and thermal stability. This paper has considered in-situ fabrication by mean of reactive sintering of blended and compacted powders containing an aluminum-copper hardenable alloy and titanium dioxide. An experimental program has been dedicated to optimize the sintering parameters in terms of both treatments temperature, between 650 and 800°C, and duration, in the range of 3 to 6 hours. Microstructural analysis based on Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has been used to determine of distribution of elements involved in sintering reactions, such as aluminum, titanium and oxygen.

The paper describes the implementation of a new type of End-effector for testing touch screen devices. To automate the testing process of touch screens devices, a new type of end-effector is presented. The End-effector can be attached at diferent tipes of robotics sistem trough a connection part, which can be designed depending on the type of robot. For the movements in the test scenario, the end-effector is designed to move like a human hand. To create the physical parts in the prototype phase is used an field of rapid prototyping (RP) technology, called fused deposition modeling (FDM).

This paper presents the design of plastic injection mould for producing a plastic product. The plastic part was designed into two different types of product, but in the same usage function. The mould was designed using the CAD program ProEngeneering Wildfire 3.0 and the DepoCam software was used to simulate the manufacturing time. The execution of the mould and the experiments were done at a private factory. Designing and simulating an injection mould before actually producing it is very useful in order to save time and cut manufacturing costs