{"id":33,"date":"2011-09-13T20:27:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:38:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:38:49","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My research focuses on two main, complementary areas: <b>surfaces<\/b> and <b>manufacturing<\/b>. Analyzing the surface after manufacturing provides valuable insights into the physics of the process that created the part. Variations in surface topography can indicate fluctuations in processing conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Processes of interest include<a href=\"https:\/\/camac.charlotte.edu\/\"><b> Ceramic additive manufacturing<\/b><\/a> and <b>abrasive processes<\/b> (grinding, polishing, and loose abrasives)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><b>Surface topography<\/b>, with a focus on advanced processing metrics, machine learning and AI-assisted interpretable surface classification, and understanding how a surface&#8217;s geometric topography affects its functionality.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Specific examples include<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;font-size: small\">A review paper on the approaches and challenges in surface imperfection detection and evaluation &#8211; \u00a0paper\u00a0 details: http:\/\/10.0.3.248\/j.cirp.2022.05.004<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A robust approach towards surface feature identification for interpretable classification challenges &#8211; \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2025\/09\/SQuiD-for-webpage.pdf\">presentation<\/a>, paper details: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jmsy.2023.08.002<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assessment of Alumina parts printed via stereolithography (SLA) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2025\/09\/Mullany-ASPE.pdf\">presentation<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;font-size: small\">Fiber based polishing tools\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/05\/Fiber_public-Mullany.pdf\">details (fiber tool)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;font-size: small\">Mass finishing of freeform surfaces &#8211; Additional details can be found at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC7JwRf8IpJ19qqzvYm4OZ3g\">YouTube<\/a> page and here <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/05\/STC-G3-Mullany.pdf\">details (vib finish)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;font-size: small\">Polar plots for surface characterization and defect detection &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/05\/Farzad-defense_public.pdf\">details (surface char)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading entry-title\"><span style=\"color: #008000\">High Speed Videos of Vibratory Finishing<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Videos referred to in the following paper(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A. Sood,B. Mullany, \u201cAdvanced Surface Analysis to Identify Media-Workpiece Contact Modes in a Vibratory Finishing Processes\u201d, Procedia Manufacturing, Volume 53,Pages 155-161, 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>B. Mullany, H. Shahinian, J. Navare, F. Azimi, E. Fleischhauer, P. Tkacik, R. Keanini, \u201cThe application of computational fluid dynamics to vibratory finishing processes\u201d, Annals of the CIRP, 66\/1\/2017, 309-312, 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sample orientated Normal to the media flow<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mq2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mq2.jpg\" alt=\"Sample orientated Normal to the media flow\" class=\"wp-image-669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mq2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mq2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sample orientated Tangential to the media flow<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mqtangential.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mqtangential.jpg\" alt=\"Sample orientated Tangential to the media flow\" class=\"wp-image-672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mqtangential.jpg 320w, https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/files\/2020\/12\/mqtangential-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research focuses on two main, complementary areas: surfaces and manufacturing. Analyzing the surface after manufacturing provides valuable insights into the physics of the process that created the part. Variations in surface topography can indicate fluctuations in processing conditions. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coefs.charlotte.edu\/bamullan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}