Publications (a) Journal Papers (i) Overseas (1) Tor S.B. and A. E. Middleditch, 1984 Convex Decomposition of Simple Polygon, (Special issue on Computational Geometry), Transactions on Graphics, ACM, Vol 3, No. 4, U.S.A., October 1984, pp244-265. (2) Middleditch, A.E.; T. W. Stacey and S. B. Tor, 1989 Intersection Algorithms for Lines and Circles, Transactions on Graphics, ACM, Vol 8, No. 1, U.S.A., January 1989, pp25-40. (3) Lee, Y.T., Tor, S.B. and Soo, E.L., 1996 Mathematical Modelling and Simulation of Popup Books, (Special issue on Computer Graphics in Singapore) Computer & GraphicsU.K.: An International Journal of Systems & Applications in Computer Graphics, Vol 20, No. 1, U.K., January/February 1996, pp21-31. (4) Britton, G.A., Tor, S.B., Li, W.L. 1996 Automated process planning for plastic injection and blow moulds, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. PRO058/4, Elsevier Science, Switzerland, May 1996, pp390-395. (5) Britton, G.A., Whybrew, K. and Tor, S.B., 1996 An Industrial Implementation of Computer-Aided Tolerance Charting, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 12, 1996, pp122-131. (6) Lye S W, Lee S S G, Yeong H Y & Tor S B, 1996 A Modular Process Planner for Machining Polystyrene Protective Packaging Molds, International Journal of Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing, Begell House Inc., N.Y. 4(3&4),1996, pp241 254. (7) Tor, S. B., Loh, N.H., Khor, K.A. and Yoshida, H., 1997 The Effects of Gate Size in Powder Injection Molding, Journal of Materials and Manufacturing Processes (special issue on Metal Injection Molding), Vol 12 Number 4, 1997, pp629-640. (8) Khoo L. P., Tor S.B. and Lee S. 1998 The Potential of Intelligent Software Agents in the World Wide Web in Automating Part Procurement. Int Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, 34(1),1998, pp46-52. (9) Deng,Y.-M.; Britton,G.A. and Tor,S.B. 1998 A Design Perspective of Mechanical Functions and its Object-Oriented Representation Scheme, Journal of Engineering with Computers, Vol 14, 1998, pp309-320. (10) Lye S W, Lee S G, & Tor S B, 1998 A Parametric Study of the Shock Characteristics of Expandable Polystyrene Foam Protective Packaging, Journal Polym. Eng. & Sci. 38(4), April 1998, pp558-565. (11) Khoo L P, Tor S B and Zhai L Y, 1999 A Rough-Set Based Approach for Classification and Rule Induction, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 1999, Vol 15, pp438-444. -1- (12) Britton, G.A.; Tor, S.B. & Wang Y. 2000. Virtual Concurrent Product Development of Plastic Injection Moulds, Journal of Engineering Manafacture, Proc Instn Mech Engrs, ImechE 2000, Vol 214, No B2, pp165-168. (13) Deng,Y.-M.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A. 2000 Abstracting and Exploring Functional Design Information for Conceptual Mechanical Product Design, Journal of Engineering with Computers, Vol 16, 2000, pp36-52. (14) Tor,S.B.; Lee S.G.; Lye Sun Woh; Chung Yee Hian,S.H. 2000 Design Automation of a Two-Stage Collapsible Core Using Design Prototypes. Int. J. of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (U.K.), 2000, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp31-39. (15) Tor,S.B.; Lee S.G.; Chung Yee Hian,S.H. 2000 Two-Stage Collapsible Core for Injection Moulded Plastic Parts with Internal Undercuts. Int. J. of Machine Tools & Manufacture, (U.K.), 40 (2000), pp1215-1233. (16) Z. Y. Liu, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2000 Sintering of Injection Molded M2 High Speed Steel, Materials Letters, Elsevier Science, 45 (2000), pp32-38. (17) Z. Y. Liu, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2000 Microstructure evolution during sintering of injected molded M2 high speed steel, Materials Science & Engineering A, A293 (2000) pp46-55. (18) R Supati., N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2000 Mixing and Characterization of Feedstock for Powder Injection Molding, Materials Letters, Elsevier Science 46 (2000), pp109-114. (19) Deng,Y.-M.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A. 2000 A dual-stage functional modelling framework with multi-level design knowledge for conceptual mechanical product design, Journal of Engineering Design, 2000, vol 11, no 4, pp347-375. (20) Deng,Y.-M.; Britton,G.A. and Tor,S.B. 2000 Constraint-based Functional Verification for Conceptual Design, Computer Aided Design (U.K.) (special issue on Conceptual Design: Issues and Challenges), Vol 32, Issu 14, Dec 2000, pp889-899. (21) Khoo L P, Tor S B and Li J R. 2001 A Rough Set Approach to the Ordering of Basic Events in Fault Tree for Fault Diagnosis, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol 17, pp769-774. (22) Zhang,W.-Y.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A. 2001 A Prototype Knowledge-based System for Conceptual Synthesis of Design Process, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2001, Vol. 17, pp549–557. (23) Loh N H, Tor S B, Khor KA, 2000, Production of metal matrix composite part by powder injection molding, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol 108 (issue 3), pp398407. (24) Liu Z.Y; Loh, N.H.; Tor, S.B.;Khor K.A.;Murakoshi Y. and Maeda, R. 2001, Production of micro components by micro powder injection molding, Journal of Materials Science Letters Vol 20, No 4, pp307-309. (25) Z. Y. Liu, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2001 Binder system for micro powder injection molding, Materials Letters, Elsevier Science, 48 (2001) pp31-38. -2- (26) Z. Y. Liu, N. H. Loh, S. B. Tor and K. A. Khor 2001 , Sintering activation energy of powder injection molded 316L stainless steel, Scripta Materialia, vol 44 no. 7, pp11311137. (27) E. S. Thian, K. A. Khor, N. H. Loh and S. B. Tor, 2001 Processing of HA-coated Ti6Ai-4V by a ceramic slurry approach: an in vitro study, Biomaterials, 22 (11), 24 April 2001, pp1225-1232. (28) C. H. Ji, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2001 , Sintering study of 316L stainless steel MIM parts using Taguchi method: final density, Materials Science & Engineering A, Vol 311 (2001), pp74-82. (29) Z. Y. Liu, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2001 , Mechanical alloying of TiC/M2 high speed steel composite powders and sintering investigation, Materials Science & EngineeringA Vol 311 (1-2), pp13-21. (30) G A Britton, S B Tor, Y C Lam and Y-M Deng 2001, Modelling Functional Design Information for Injection Mould Design, International Journal of Production Research, 2001, vol 39, no 12, pp2501-2515. (31) E. S. Thian, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2001 Effects of Debinding Parameters on Powder Injection Molded Ti-6Ai-4V/HA Composite Parts, Advanced Powder Technology, 12, pp361-370. (32) Zhang,W.-Y.; Tor,S.B., Britton,G.A. and Deng, Y-M. 2001, EFDEX: A KnowledgeBased Expert System for Functional Design of Engineering Systems, Journal of Engineering with Computers, Vol 17, No 4, pp 339-353. (33) Deng,Y.-M.; Lam, Y.C.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A. 2002 A CAD-CAE Integrated Injection Molding Design System, Journal of Engineering with Computers (2002) 18:8092. (34) Gu Y.W., N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor, S. B. Tor and P Cheang 2002, Spark plasma sintering of hydroxyapatite powders, Biomaterials, vol. 23[1] (2002), pp37-43, Elsevier Science, U.K. (35) Li J R, Khoo L P and Tor S B 2002, A novel representation scheme for disassembly sequence planning, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 20: 621-630. (36) E. S. Thian, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2002 Dilation of Ti-6Ai-4V/HA Composite Tentile Parts, Advanced Composites Letters, Vol 11, No. 2, pp73-77. (37) E. S. Thian, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2002 Microstructures and mechanical properties of Powder Injection Molded Ti-6Ai-4V/HA powder, Biomaterials, Volume 23, Issue 14, July 2002, Pg 2927-2938 Elsevier Science (UK). (38) E. S. Thian, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor and S. B. Tor, 2002 In vitro behavior of sintered Powder Injection Molded Ti-6Ai-4V/HA, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, Vol 63, No 3, 79-87,2002. (39) Zhang, W.-Y.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A., 2002, A Two-Level Modeling Approach to Acquire Functional Design Knowledge in Mechanical Engineering Systems, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2002, 19 : 454-460. -3- (40) Zhang, W.-Y.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A., 2002, A Heuristic State-Space Approach to the Functional Design of Mechanical Systems, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (2002), 19:235-244. (41) M.A. Parvez, N.S. Ong, Y.C. Lam and S.B. Tor 2002 Gas-assisted injection molding: the effects of process variables and gas channel geometry, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 121 (2002), pp27-35. (42) Tor,S.B., Britton,G.A., Zhang, W.-Y. and Y-M Deng 2002, Guiding functional design of mechanical products through rule-based causal behavioral reasoning, International Journal of Production Research, 2002, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 667-682. (43) Zhang,W.-Y.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A. 2002 Automated functional design of engineering systems, The Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 13, pg 119-133, 2002. (44) Y.C.Ng, K.S.Tey, K.R.Subramanian, S.B.Tor, L.P.Khoo & S.G.Lee, 2002, An Intelligent Multi-Agent Environment for Concurrent and Collaborative Configuration of Personal Computers The International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research & Applications (CERA). Vol 10, Number 2 June 2002, pp143-151. (45) Liu Z.Y; Loh, N.H.; Tor, S.B.;Khor K.A.;Murakoshi Y.; Maeda, R. and Shimizu T. 2002, Micro powder injection molding, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol 127, pp165-168. (46) Thian ES, Loh NH, Khor K A, Tor SB, 2002, Ti-6Al-4V/HA composite feedstock for injection molding. Materials Letters, Vol 56 (4) pp522-532. (47) Deng, Y.-M., Britton, G.A., Lam, Y.C, Tor, S.B. and Ma Y. S., 2002, Feature-Based CAD-CAE Integration Model for Injection Moulded Product Design,, International Journal of Production Research, vol 40, no 15, pp3737-3750. (48) Li J R, Tor S B and Khoo L P 2002, A hybrid disassembly sequence planning approach for maintenance, ASME Transation, Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), Vol 2, number 1, March 2002, pp28-37. (49) G A Britton, Georg Thimm, S B Tor and Fan Jiang 2002, A graph representation scheme for porocess planning of machined parts, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 20(6), pp. 429-438. (50) N H Loh, S B Tor, B.Y Tay, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2003 "Micro powder injection molding of microstructures, Materials Science Forum, 426-432 (5), pp 4289-4294. (51) Ma Y.S.; Tor, S.B.; & Britton, G.A. 2003. The Development of a Standard Component Library for Plastic Injection Mould Design Using an Object Oriented Approach, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 22 (9-10), pp 611-618. (52) Zhang, W.-Y.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A., 2003, FunctDesigner - a functional design software system, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 22 (34), pp 295-305. (53) Li J R, Khoo L P and Tor S B 2003, A Tabu-enhanced Genetic Algorithm Approach for Assembly Process Planning, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (Special Issue) 14 (2), pp197-208. -4- (54) Mohua Xiong, Shu Beng Tor, Li Pheng Khoo and Chun-Hsien Chen, 2003, A Webenhanced Dynamic BOM-based Available-To-Promise System, International Journal of Production Economics 84 (2003) 133-147. (55) E. S. Thian, N. H. Loh, K. A. Khor, and S. B. Tor, 2003 Processing of Biocomposite Ti6Ai-4V/HA Powder, Journal of Materials Science Letters, 22, 2003, 775-778. (56) Z. Y. Liu, N. H. Loh, S. B. Tor, Y. Murakoshi, R. Maeda, K. A. Khor, T. Shimudzu 2003, Injection molding of 316L stainless steel microstructures, Microsystem Technologies Vol 9, No. 6-7, 507-510. (57) Li J R, Khoo L P and Tor S B 2003, V-REALISM: An Object Oriented Prototype Virtual Reality-enabled Intelligent System for Maintenance, Journal of Computers in Industry 52(2), pp109-125. (58) M. H. Xiong, S. B. Tor and L. P. Khoo 2003, WebATP: a Web-based Flexible Availableto-promise Computation System, Production Planning and Control, 14 (7), pp 662-672. (59) Liu ZY, Loh N H, Tor SB, Khor KA, 2003, Characterization of powder injection molding feedstock, Metarials Characterization 49 (2003) pp313-320. (60) Tor,S.B. ; Britton,G.A. and Zhang, W.-Y. 2003, Indexing and Retrieval in Metal Stamping Die Design Using Case-based Reasoning, ASME Transation, Journal of Computing & Information Science in Engineering (JCISE), Vol 3, No. 4, December 2003, 353-362. (61) C. Y. Chu, S. B. Tor, G. A. Britton 2004, A Graph Theoretic Approach for Stamping Operations Sequencing, Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Proc Instn Mech Engrs, ImechE B - Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2004, B4, 467-471. (62) G Fu, N H Loh, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2004 " Replication of metal microstructures by micro powder injection molding", Materials & Design, Vol 25 (8), 729733. (63) Ma Y.S.; Britton, G.A; Tor, S.B.; LY Jin; G Chen; S.H. Tang, 2004. Design of a feature-based mechanical assembly library, Computer-aided design and applications, Vol 1 number 1-4, pp397-403. (64) Zhang, W.-Y.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A., 2005, A graph & matrix representation scheme for functional design of mechanical products, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 25 (3-4), pp 221-232. (65) L Liu, N H Loh, B Y Tay, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2005 “Mixing and characterization of 316L stainless steel feedstock for micro powder injection molding”. Material Characterization, 54(3), pp 230-238. (66) B Y Tay, L Liu, N H Loh, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2005 “Surface roughness of microstructured component fabricated by uMIM”. Material Science and Engineering A 396 (1-2), pp 311-319. (67) G. Fu, N.H. Loh, S.B. Tor, B.Y. Tay, Y. Murakoshi, and R. Maeda 2005 "Injection molding, debinding and sintering of 316L stainless steel microstructures" Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 81 (3), pp 495-500. -5- (68) Li J R, Khoo L P and Tor S B 2005, An object oriented intelligent disassembly sequence planner for maintenance, Journal of Computers in Industry, 56 (7), pp 699-718. (69) B Y Tay, L Liu, N H Loh, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2005 “Injection Molding of 3D Microstructures by uPIM”. Journal of Microsystem Technologies, Vol11, No. 2-3, 210213. (70) Tor, S. B., Britton, G. A. and Zhang, W. Y., 2005 “Development of an object-oriented blackboard model for stamping process planning in progressive die design”, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Vol 16, No 4-5, pp. 499-513. (71) Tor, S. B., Britton, G. A. and Zhang, W. Y. 2005 A Knowledge-Based Blackboard Framework for Stamping Process Planning in Progressive Die Design, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 26(7-8), pp774-783. (72) Y. Liu, H.T. Loh, S.B. Tor, 2005, Comparison of Extreme Learning Machine with Support Vector Machine for Text Classification, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3533 / 2005, p390-399, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11504894_55. (73) G Fu, N H Loh, S B Tor, B Y Tay, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2005 “A variotherm mold for micro metal injection molding”. Journal of Microsystem Technologies, 11(12), pp12671271. (74) G Fu, N H Loh, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2005 “Effects of injection molding parameters on the production of microstructures by powder injection molding”. Materials and Manufacturing Pocesses, 20 (6), pp 977-985. (75) L Liu, N H Loh, B Y Tay, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2006 “Densification and grain growth of stainless steel microsize structures fabricated by uMIM”. Applied Physics A: materials science and processing, 83(1), pp31-36. (76) Li J R, Khoo L P and Tor S B, 2006 RMINE: A Rough Set Based Date Mining Prototype with Incomplete Data for Condition-based Fault Diagnosis, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 17(1), pp163-176. (77) Zhang, W. Y., Tor, S. B. and Britton, G. A., 2006 “Indexing and Retrieval in Case-Based Process Planning for Multi-Stage Non-Axisymmetric Deep Drawing”, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 28(1-2), pp12-22. (78) Li J R, Khoo L P and Tor S B 2006, Generation of Possible Multiple components Disassembly Sequence for Maintenance Using a Disassembly Constraint Graph, International Journal of Production Economics, 102(1), pp51-65. (79) B Y Tay, L Liu, N H Loh, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2006 “Characterization of metallic micro rod arrays fabricated by μMIM”, Material Characterization, Volume 57, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 80-85. (80) G Fu, N H Loh, S B Tor, B Y Tay, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2006 “Analysis of demolding in micro metal injection molding”, Journal of Microsystem Technologies, 12 (6), pp554-564. (81) M.H Xiong, S. B. Tor, Rohit Bhatnagar, L. P. Khoo and S. Venkat, 2006, A DSS approach to managing customer enquiries for SMEs at the customer enquiry stage, International Journal of Production Economics 103(1) pp 332-346. -6- (82) L Liu, N H Loh, B Y Tay, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2006 “Micro powder injection molding: sintering kinetics of microstructured components”. Scripta Materialia. Vol 55, Issue 12, December 2006, pp1103-1106. (83) Zhang, W. Y., Tor, S. B. and Britton, G. A., 2006 “Managing modularity in product family design with functional modeling”, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 30 (7-8), pp579-588. (84) L Liu, N H Loh, B Y Tay, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2007, “Effects of thermal debinding on surface roughness in micro powder injection molding” Materials Letters, 61 (3), pp 809-812. (85) Ma Y.S.; Britton, G.A.; Tor, S.B. & Lin LY, 2007 Associative assembly design features: concept, implementation and application, The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Volume 32, Issue 5-6, March 2007, Pages 434-444. (86) Fu G; S B Tor; N H Loh; B Y Tay; D E Hardt 2007 A Micro Powder Injection Molding apparatus for high aspect ratio metal micro-structures production, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 17 (2007) 1803-1809. (87) Fu G. , Li. S.G., Reading I., Chaturvedi P., Tor, S.B. , Yoon S.F. and Youcef-Toumi K., 2007, Investigation of the Dimensional Variation of Microstructures Through the μMIM Process, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing 2007, Vol 1 (6), p722-735. (88) Li. S.G., Fu G., Reading I., Tor, S.B., Loh N. H., Chaturvedi P., , Yoon S.F. and Youcef-Toumi K., 2007, Dimensional Variation in Production of High-Aspect-Ratio Micro-Pillars Array by Micro Powder Injection Molding, Applied Physics A : materials science and processing, V89 (3), Pp 721-728. (89) C. Y. Chu, S. B. Tor, G. A. Britton 2008, An efficient algoritham for automatic operation sequencing for progressive die design, International Journal of Production Research, Vol 46 Issue 11, pp2965-2988. (90) N H Loh, S.B. Tor, B Y Tay, Y. Murakoshi & R. Maeda, 2008, Fabrication of micro gear by micro powder injection molding, Microsystem Technologies 14(1), pp43-51. (91) S.B. Tor, S.G. Lee, G.A. Britton & W.Y. Zhang, 2008, Knowledge-Based Functional Design of Industrial Robots, International Journal of Production Research, Vol 46 Issue 16, pp4501-4519. (92) Fu G; S B Tor; N H Loh; B Y Tay; D E Hardt 2008 Demolding of powder injection molded micro-structures: analysis, simulation and experiment, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 18(7), Art no. 075024. (93) L Liu, N H Loh, B Y Tay, S B Tor, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2008, Constitutive modelling of microstructured components fabricated by micro powder injection molding, Acta Materialia, Vol 59, Issue 19, November 2008, pp5560-5566. (94) BY Tay, NH Loh, SB Tor, FL Ng, G Fu, 2009, Characterisation of micro gear produced by micro powder injection moulding, Powder Technology, Volume 188, Issue 3, 10 January 2009, Pages 179-182. -7- (95) G. Fu, S.B. Tor, N.H. Loh and D.E. Hardt, 2009, Micro Hot-embossing of 316L Stainless Steel Micro-structures, Applied Physics A : materials science and processing, Vol 97 Issue 4 (2009) Pg925-931. (96) M Mirkhalaf , S B Tor , V M Murukeshan, N H Loh and S W Lye, 2009, Fabrication of Stand-alone Polymer Microlens: Design of Molding Apparatus, Simulation and Experimental Results, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Volume 19 No 9 (September 2009) 095005 (10pp). (97) B Saha, E Liu , S B Tor, N W Khun, D E Hardt and J H Chun, 2009, Anti-sticking behavior of DLC coated silicon micro-molds, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Volume 19 No 10 (2009) 105025. (98) Liu, Y.; HT Loh; K Youcef-Toumi and S B Tor, 2009, A Hierarchical Text Classification System for Manufacturing Knowledge Management and Retrieval, International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (accepted for publication). (99) S. H. Yeo; S B Tor; N H Loh; P.C. Tan; E. Aligiri, 2009 Processing of Zirconium-Based Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG) Using Micro-Electrical Discharge Machining (Micro-EDM), Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Vol 24, Issue 12 : 1242-1248. (100) B Saha, E Liu , S B Tor, N W Khun, D E Hardt and J H Chun, 2010, Replication performance of Si-N-DLC coated Si micro-molds in micro hot embossing, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Volume 20, issue 4 (Apr 2010) 045007. (101) J. Meng, N. H. Loh; B. Y. Tay; G. Fu; S. B. Tor 2010, Tribological behavior of 316L stainless steel fabricated by micro powder injection molding, Wear, 268 (7-8), pp 10131019. (102) J. Meng, N. H. Loh; G. Fu; S. B. Tor; B. Y. Tay 2010, Replication and characterization of 316L stainless steel micro-mixer by micro powder injection molding, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 496 (1-2), pp 293-299. (103) G. Fu, S.B. Tor, N.H. Loh and D.E. Hardt, 2010, Fabrication of robust tooling for mass production of polymeric microfluidic devices, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, number 20 Vol 8, 085019. (104) B Saha, E Liu , S B Tor, D E Hardt, J H Chun and N W Khun, 2010, Improvement in lifetime and replication quality of Si micromold using N:DLC:Ni coatings for microfluidic devices, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical, Vol 150, issue 1, 21-sept-2010, pp174-182. (105) S.B. Tor, G. Fu, N.H. Loh, B.Y. Tay and D.E. Hardt, 2010, Metallic Mold Inserts for Fabrication of Polymer Microfluidic Devices, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing. DOI: 10.1504/IJNM.2010.034773, Vol 6 (1-4), pp 66-74. (106) D.E. Hardt, B. W. Anthony and S.B. Tor, 2010, A Teaching Factory for Polymer Microfabrication – μFac, International Journal of Nanomanufacturing, DOI: 10.1504/IJNM.2010.034779 , Vol 6 (1-4), pp 137-151. -8- (107) M Mirkhalaf , S B Tor , V M Murukeshan, N H Loh, S W Lye, 2010, Optimization of Compression Molding of Stand-alone Microlenses: Simulation and Experimental Results, Polymer Engineering & Science, Vol 50, Issue 11, pp 2216-2228, Nov 2010. (108) L Liu, NH Loh, BY Tay, SB Tor, 2011, Microstructure evolution of 316L stainless steel micro components prepared by micro powder injection molding, Powder Technology Volume 206, Issue 3, 30 January 2011, Pages 246-251. (109) Junhu Meng; Ngiap Hiang Loh; Bee Yen Tay; Shu Beng Tor; Gang Fu; Khiam Aik Khor; Ligen Yu, 2011, Pressureless spark plasma sintering of alumina micro-channel part produced by micro powder injection molding, Scripta Materialia Volume 64, Issue 3, February 2011, Pages 237-240. (110) L Liu, NH Loh, BY Tay, SB Tor, HQ Yin, XH Qu, 2011, Investigation on final stage sintering of microsize structures prepared by micro powder injection molding, Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, Volume 103, Issue 4, pp1145-1151, June 2011. (111) J. Meng, N. H. Loh; G. Fu; B. Y. Tay; S. B. Tor 2011, Micro powder injection moulding of alumina micro-channel part, Journal of the European Ceramic Society, Vol 31, Issue 6, June 2011, p1049-1056. (112) B. Saha, E. Liu, S. B. Tor, D. E. Hardt, J. H. Chun, 2011, Modification of surface properties of Si micro-molds by DLC coatings deposited with DC magnetron sputtering, Vacuum, Vol 85, Issue 12, pp1105-1107, 5 June 2011. (113) M Mirkhalaf , V M Murukeshan, S B Tor , Vengalathunadakal Shinoj, and Krishnan Sathiyamoorthy, 2011, Characteristics of Stand-alone Microlenses in Fiber-based Fluorescence Imaging Applications, Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume: 82 Issue: 4 Article Number: 043110 Published: APR 2011. (114) L Liu, NH Loh, BY Tay, SB Tor, HQ Yin, XH Qu, 2011, Preparation and characterization of micro components fabricated by micro powder injection molding, Materials Characterization, Volume 62, Issue 6, Pages 615-620. (115) B Saha, S B Tor, E Liu , D E Hardt, J H Chun, 2011, Hot-embossing performance of silicon micromold coated with self-assembled n-octadecyltrichlorosilane, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical, Vol 160 (2011), November_2011, P207-214.. (116) G. Fu, S. B. Tor, D. E. Hardt, N. H. Loh, 2011, Effects of processing parameters on the micro-channels replication in microfluidic devices fabricated by micro injection molding, Microsystem Technologies, Volume 17, Issue 12 (2011), Page 1791-1798, DOI: 10.1007/s00542-011-1363-2 Published: DEC 2011. (117) B Saha, S B Tor, E Liu , D E Hardt, J H Chun, 2012, Titanium-aluminumpolytetrafluoroethylene coated stainless steel micromold via co-sputtering deposition: replication performance and limitation in hot-embossing, Sensors & Actuators B: Chemical, 163 (2012), pp. 290-298 DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2011.12.096. (118) B Saha, M Dirckx, D E Hardt, S B Tor, E Liu, J H Chun, 2014, Effect of sputtering power on friction coefficient and surface energy of co-sputtered titanium and molybdenum disulfide coatings and its performance in micro hot-embossing, Microsystem Technologies: Volume 20, Issue 6 (2014), Page 1069-1078. -9- (119) Yu H; S B Tor; N H Loh and A K Asundi, 2014, Effect of injection-molding induced residual stress on microchannel deformation irregularity during thermal bonding, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 24 015012. doi:10.1088/0960-1317/24/1/015012. (120) Vengalathunadakal Shinoj, V M Murukeshan, S B Tor, N H Loh, S W Lye, 2014, Design, fabrication and characterization of thermoplastic microlenses for fiber-optic probe imaging, Applied Optics, vol 53, iss 6, pp1083-1088. (121) Yu H; S B Tor and N H Loh, 2014, Rapid bonding enhancement by auxiliary ultrasonic actuation for fabrication of Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) microfluidic devices, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Volume 24, Issue 11, 1 November 2014, Article number 115020. (122) Z Z Chong, SB Tor, NH Loh, TN Wong, A M Ganan-Galvo, SW Tan and NamTrung Nguyen 2014 Acoustofluidic control of bubble size in microfluidic flow-focusing configuration, Lab Chip, DOI: 10.1019/c4lc01139b. (123) H. Yu , Z. Z. Chong , S. B. Tor , E. Liu , N. H. Loh, 2014, Low temperature and deformation-free bonding of PMMA microfluidic devices with stable hydrophilicity via oxygen plasma treatment and PVA coating, RSC Advances, (submitted). (124) Nay Win Khun, Zhuang Zhi Chong, Pengyi Tian, Yu Tian, S B Tor, Erjia Liu, 2014, Replication and tribological performance of Zr-based bulk metallic glass micromolds, Intermetallics (submitted). (ii) Local (1) Tor Shu Beng, 1991 Parameterization of Rational Quadratic Arcs, Journal of IES, Vol 31, No. 5, Singapore September/October 1991 p63-66. (2) Tor S. B. and Yap S. F., 1993 PC Based Scanners, Journal of Industrial Automation, Vol 2 No. 1, Singapore 1993 p22-29. (b) Conference Papers (1) Tor Shu Beng, 1987 Identification of Closed Regions in a CAD System, AIM87 3rd International Conference on Automation in Manufacturing, Singapore October 1987 p6.336.49. (2) Tor Shu Beng, 1988 Data Structure for CAD, Technology 88, HP Singapore in-house engineering conference, Singapore November 1988 p220-241. (3) Tor Shu Beng, 1988 Generic Data Structuring System for CAD, AIM88 4th International Conference on Automation in Manufacturing, Singapore November 1988 p7.40-7.66. (4) Tor Shu Beng, 1991 Geometric Algorithms for CAD Systems, ICCIM 91 The International Conference on CIM, Singapore October 1991 p241-244. (5) Tor Shu Beng, 1992 Neighbourhood Operations Using DeMorgan's Theorem, Computer Graphics '92, Singapore September 1992. - 10 - (6) Tor Shu Beng and Yap Sook Foong, 1992 PC Based Scanners for Engineering Drawings Applications: A Case Study, MANUTECH 92 National Symposium on Manufacturing Technology, Singapore September 1992. (7) Lee H. S. Luong and Tor S. B., 1992 Configuration Management in Manufacturing, MANUTECH 92 National Symposium on Manufacturing Technology, Singapore September 1992. (8) Britton, R. deSouza and Tor S. B., 1992 Teaching CAD/CAM Technology, MANUTECH 92 National Symposium on Manufacturing Technology, Singapore September 1992. (9) Li, W.L.; Britton, G.A.; & Tor S.B. 1995., Automated Machining For Plastic Injection Moulds, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Singapore, pp. 1132-1138. (10) Jin S.; Tor, S.B.; & Britton, G.A. 1995, A Proposed Automatic Pin Injector System Design For Plastic Injection Moulding, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Singapore, pp. 1125-1131. (11) Agarwal S. Lee Y.T and Tor, S.B. 1995, Evaluation of Four CAD Systems Using Analytic Hierarchy Process, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Singapore, pp. 409-418. (12) Agarwal S. Lee Y.T and Tor, S.B. 1995, Concurrent Feature-Based Design and Manufacture, Proceeding of International Conference on Manafacturing Excellence, Bangalore, India, August 1995, pp 70-77. (13) Loh, N.H., Tor, S.B. and Khor, K.A., 1995 Injection Moulding of SUS 316L Stainless Steel Powders Seminar, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL), Tsukuba, Japan, 23rd June 1995. (14) Khor, K.A. Loh, N.H. and Tor, S.B., 1995 Sintering Characteristics of MIM 316L Stainless Steel Powders Seminar, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL), Tsukuba, Japan, 23rd June 1995. (15) VK Hew, B Song, SB Tor, 1995, “Implementation of STEP Interface on CAD systems, Industrial Electronics, ISIE'95., Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium of Industrial Electronics, Athens, Greece, July 10-14, 1995, pp872-877. (16) Loh, N.H., Khor, K.A. and Tor, S.B., 1996 Sintering Characteristics of Metal Injection Moulded Stainless Steel 316L, World Congress on Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 16th-20th June 1996. (17) Loh, N.H., Khor, K.A. and Tor, S.B., 1996 Metal Injection Moulding, R&D Awareness Seminar, NTU, 6th Sept.1996. (18) Loh, N.H., Khor, K.A. and Tor, S.B., 1997 Metal Injection Moulding of Stainless Steel 316L, 2nd symposium on High Performance Metal Matrix Composites, Japan.,1997. (19) Ji CH, Loh NH, Khor KA and Tor SB, 1997, Effects of debinding parameters on metal injection molding parts, Proceedings of the Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials VI, 24th to 26th Nov, 1997, Singapore. - 11 - (20) Fok, S.B. Tor, G.A. Britton, Samuel Y.E. Lim, 1998 "Potential of Virtual Reality in Manufacturing: A Singapore Perspective" (Invited Paper), Proc. of VR'98 Seminar and Workshop on Virtual Reality, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 14-15 April, 1998, pp. 102-107. (21) S.C. Fok, S.B. Tor and L.P. Khoo, 1998 "Potential of cyberspace with virtual reality and soft computing for advancing fluid power development", (Invited paper) International Scientific Forum on Developments in Fluid Power Control of Machinery and Manipulators, Cracow, Poland, 1998. (22) N H Loh, S B Tor & Khor K A, 1998 Powder injection molding - mixing study using Taguchi method. Pm2TEC '98. International Conference on powder metallurgy & Particulate Materials, May 31 to 4tgh June 1998, Las Vegas, USA. (23) Deng,Y.-M.; Tor,S.B.; Britton,G.A. and Chung Yee Hian,S.H. 1998 ‘Functional Design of Conveyor Systems for Factory Automation’. ICARCV’98 (Fifth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore), 9-11 December 1998, 848-852. (24) Chung Yee Hian,S.H.; Tor,S.B.; Lee S.G. 1998 ‘Automating the Design of a Moulding Tool for uPVC Pipe Fittings with an Internal Undercut. ICARCV’98 (Fifth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Singapore), 9-11 December 1998, 844-847. (25) Deng,Y.-M.; Tor,S.B.; Britton,G.A. 1999 ‘A Computerized Design Environment for Functional Modeling of Mechanical Products’. Fifth Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., 9-11 June 1999, 1-12. Tor, S.B., Loh, N.H., and Khor, K.A.1999 'Flow Analysis of Metal Injection Moulding process Using Flow Simulation Software, APEC/ITIT symposium on High Performance Metal Matrix Composites for Manufacturing Technology of Advanced Materials, Japan., 24/March 1999, 171-186. (27) Britton, G.A.; Ma Y.S. & Tor S.B. 1999. Object Technology Development and Unigraphics. Unigraphics User Group Spring Conference, March 14-18, Newport Beach, California, USA. (26) (28) Tor,S.B.; Deng,Y.-M.; Britton,G.A. 1999 ‘A Comprehensive Representation Model Functional Design of Mechanical Products’. 12th International Conference on Engineering Design, Munich, Germany, 24-26 August 1999, Vol 3, pp 1929-1932. (29) Xu Shuhong; Fok Sai Cheong and Tor,S.B. 2000 A rapid design of free-form shapes using data glove, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 28-30 March 2000, Singapore, pp. 857-867. (30) Deng,Y.-M.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A. 2000 Organizing Functional Design Knowledge to support Conceptual Mechanical Product Design, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 28-30 March 2000, Singapore, pp. 1036-1047. (31) Zhang,W.-Y.; Tor,S.B. and Britton,G.A. 2000 KBCS: A Knowledge-based Conceptual Synthesizer to Conceptual Design, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 28-30 March 2000, Singapore, pp. 1060-1071. - 12 - (32) Z Y Liu, LoH N H, Soh K S, Tor S B, Khor K A, Murakoshi Y, Maeda R and Shimizu T, Micro powder injection molding,International Conference on Precision Engineering (ICOPE) 2000, 21 - 23 March 2000, Singapore Expo, Singapore. (33) Xu Shuhong; Fok Sai Cheong and Tor,S.B. 2000, Rapid Creation and Direct Manipulation of Free-Form Curves Using Data Glove, The 4th International Conference on Engineering Design and Automation, Orlando, Florida, July 30-August 2, 2000 (34) Z Y Liu, Loh N H, Khor K A and Tor S B, 2000, Determination of sintering activation energy for powder injection molding 316L stainless steel parts, TMS Fall Meeting, 8-12 Oct 2000, St Louis, Missouri, USA. (35) Britton, G.A.; Whybrew, K.; Thimm, G.; Tor S.B.; Jiang, F. 2001, A Generic Graph Representation technique for Process Planning, 7th CIRP International Conference on Computer Aided Tolerancing, April 24-25, ENS de Cachan, Paris, France, pp. 103-110. (36) Lee S.G.; Tor S.B. and Lye S.W. 2001 Assessing the effectiveness of packaging operations of personal computers, 1st international conference on integrated logistics (LOGISTICS 2001), Singapore pp 489-493. (37) Britton, G.A.; Tor, S.B. and Wan, J. 2001, Mentor Mechanical: A Lifecycle Methodology for Designing Plastic Injection Moulds, 16th International Conference on Production Research, Prague, Czech Republic, F1.6, pp1-13. (38) Zhang Wen Yu, Tor,S.B.; Britton,G.A. 2001 ‘A knowledge-based Functional reasoning strategy to the conceptual Design of Mechanical Products’. 13th International Conference on Engineering Design,ICED 01, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K., 21-23 August 2001, ICED 01C586/658, pp 291-298. (39) Deng, Y.-M., Britton, G.A., Lam, Y.C., Tor, S.B. and Ma, Y.S. (2001). A Feature-Based CAD-CAE Integration Model for Injection Molded Product Design. 16th International Conference on Production Research, Prague, Czech Republic, L1.4, pp1-18. (40) Loh, N.H.; Tor, S.B.; Liu Z.Y; Lin L,; Khor K.A.; Murakoshi Y. and Maeda, R. 2001, Preliminary study on micro powder injection molding, 16th International Conference on Production Research, Prague, Czech Republic, K7.4, pp1-14. (41) Li J.R.; Tor, S.B. and Khoo L.P. 2001, Integrating Tabu search and generic algorithm for disassembly sequence optimization for maintenance, 16th International Conference on Production Research (in CD-ROM), Prague, Czech Republic, E2.4, pp1-19. (42) S B Tor, S.G. Lee & S W Lye, 2001, "Assessing the Effectiveness of Packaging Operations of Personal Computers", Proceedings, 1st International Conference on Integrated Logistics (LOGISTICS 2001), 22-24 August 2001, Singapore, pp 489 - 493. (43) Zhang, W. Y., Tor, S. B., Britton, G. A. and Deng Y-M (2002). Functional Design of Mechanical Products based on behaviour-driven function-environment-structure modelling framework, Proceedings of the 2nd SMA Annual Symposium, 14-16 January 2002, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/4031 (44) Mohua Xiong, Shu Beng Tor, Li Pheng Khoo, Rohit Bhatnagar (2002), Fulfillment of Rush Customer Orders under Limited Capacity, Proceedings of the 2nd SMA Annual Symposium, 14-16 January 2002, Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/4030 - 13 - (45) M. H. Xiong, S. B. Tor, L. P. Khoo and R. Bhatnagar (2002), An Approach for fulfilling Customer Demands Across Supply Chain, the 3rd International Conference on Quality and Reliability (ICQR2002). (46) N H Loh, S B Tor, Z Y Liu, Y Murakoshi, K A Khor, R Maeda, T Shimdizu (2002), Micro powder injection molding of 316L stainless steel powder , Proceedings of MSE Workshop: Key issues for comercialization of MEMS, 20-22 Feb 2002, Institute of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Tsukuba, Japan. (47) Y. S. Ma, S. B. Tor, Graeme A. Britton and T. Wijaya (2002), Design, Definition and Implementation of a Component Library for Mechanical Design, First International Conference on Information Technology & Applications (ICITA2002), Bathurst, Australia, 25-28 November 2002, paper# 183-5 (CD-ROM). (48) Xiong Mohua, Tor Shu Beng and Bhatnagar R., Manage customer enquiries at the customer enquiry stage for SMEs – Problems and Solutions. The 17th International conference on Production Research 2003 (49) Y. -S. Ma, G. A. Britton, S. B. Tor, E. Gunawan C. H. Lee (2003), Standard Component Library Design and Implementation for Plastic Injection Mold Design with a CAD Tool, IEEE proceedings of the 4th international Conference on Control and Automation, June 10 - 12, 2003, Montreal, Canada, pp. 981-1985. IEEE catalog Number: 03EX662, ISBN: 07803-7777-X, Library of Congress: 2003100102. (50) N H Loh, S B Tor, B Y Tay, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda (2003), "Micro powder injection molding of microstructures, THERMEC'2003, International Conference on Processing and Manufactuirng of Advanced Materials, July 7-11, 2003, Leganes Madrid, Spain. (51) Xiong, M.H.; Tor, Shu Beng; Bhatnagar, Rohit; Venkataramanaiah, S, 2003, Framework to Manage Customer Enquiries for SMEs, Collections in Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST), Singapore-MIT Symposium, Jan-2003, http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3741 (52) Tor, Shu Beng; Britton, G.A.; Zhang, W.Y., 2003, Functional Modeling in Conceptual Die Design, Collections in Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST), Singapore-MIT Symposium, Jan-2003, http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3742 (53) Tor, S. B.; Britton, G.A.; Zhang, W.Y., 2003, A graph and matrix representation scheme for functional modeling in conceptual die design, International conference on production research, U.S.A. (54) Chu, C. Y., Tor, S. B. and Britton G. A., 2004, A Graph Theoretic Operations Sequencing Approach for Progressive Die Design. Proceedings of the 34th international MATADOR conference, U.K. 2004, 69-74. (55) Tor, S. B., Mak, K. W., Lee, Y. T., 2004, A Study on the Boundary Conditions of 90° Paper Pop-up Structures, Collections in Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST), Singapore-MIT Symposium, Jan-2004 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3921 (56) Y.-S. Ma*, Graeme A Britton, S. B. Tor, L.-Y. Jin, and G. Chen and S.-H. Tang, 2004 Design of an feature-object-based mechanical assembly library, e-Proceedings of the International CAD’04 conference, Pattaya, Thailand, May 24-28, 2004. - 14 - (57) Y. -S. Ma, G. A. Britton, S. B. Tor, 2004 "Commercialization of product, design, software etc developed from academic researches", Invited plenary speech on the 3rd International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE'04), 26-27 July, 2004, Manila, Philippines. (58) Britton, G.A.; Tor, S.B. and Wang Yan, 2004, Virtual Collaborative Design Reference Model for Product Development, Proceedings of the TMCE 2004, April 12-16, 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland, Edited by Horváth and Xirouchakis. (59) Xiong,M.H.Tor,ShuBeng; Bhatnagar, Rohit; Venkataramanaiah, S., 2004, DSS Model for Profit Maximization at Customer Enquiry Evaluation Stage, Collections in Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST), Singapore-MIT Symposium, Jan-2004 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3902 (60) Zhang, W.Y.; Tor, Shu Beng; Britton, G.A, 2004, A Hybrid Intelligent System for Stamping Process Planning in Progressive Die Design, Collections in Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST), Singapore-MIT Symposium, Jan-2004, http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3905 (61) Zhang, W.Y.; Tor, S B; Britton, G.A, 2004, A functional modeling approach for modular product design, ICMA 2004—proceedings of the international conference on manufacturing automation: advanced design & manufacturing in global competition, pp 3138. (62) Liu, Y.; Loh, Han Tong; Tor, Shu Beng, 2004, Building a Document Corpus for Manufacturing Knowledge Retrieval, Collections in Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Technology (IMST), Singapore-MIT Symposium, Jan-2004, http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3900 (63) Tor, S. B., Mak, K. W., Lee, Y. T., 2005, ANALYSIS OF 90 degree POP-UP STRUCTURES FOR CAD SYSTEMS, 15th International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED 2005, Melbourne, Australia, 15-18 Auguast 2005. (64) Liu, Y.; HT Loh; S B Tor, 2005, Comparison of extreme learning machine with support vector machine for text classification, 18th international conference on industrial & engineering applications of artificial intelligence & expert systems, Bari, Italy, June 22-25, 2005. (65) Britton, G.A. and Tor, S B. 2005, Expert systems for design: the challenge for SWARM, SWARMFEST 2005, Italy.. (66) Fu G. , Reading I., Chaturvedi P., Li. S.G., Tor, S.B. , Yoon S.F. and Youcef-Toumi K., 2006, Investigation of the Dimensional Variation of Microstructures Through the μMIM Process, 4th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing, November 1-3, 2006, Cambridage, MA USA., pp215-220. (67) S. B. Tor, N. H. Loh, G. Fu and B. Y. Tay, 2006, Design of molding apparatus for high aspect ratio Micro Powder Injection Molding, 4th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing, November 1-3, 2006, Cambridage, MA USA., pp228-233. (68) S. B. Tor, N. H. Loh, G. Fu and B. Y. Tay 2007, Experimental study on the demolding force in Micro Metal Injection Molding, the annual SMA symposium 2007, 23-24 January Singapore. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/35810. - 15 - (69) Loke Y.W.; Tor S.B.; Chun J.H.; Loh N.H and Hardt D. E. 2007, Micro InjectionMolding of Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Using Metallic Glass Insert, the annual SMA symposium 2007, 23-24 January Singapore. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/35813. (70) Fu G. , Reading I., Li. S.G., Chaturvedi P., Tor, S.B. , Yoon S.F.; Fang, Z.P.and Youcef-Toumi K., 2007, Investigation of the Dimensional Variation of Microstructures Through the μMIM Process, the annual SMA symposium 2007, 23-24 January Singapore. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35811. (71) Y.W. Loke, S.B. Tor, J.H. Chun, N.H. Loh, D.E. Hardt, 2007. "Comparison between Amorphous Metallic Alloy and Silicon as Molding Insert for Micro Injection Molding of Polymers" Annaul Technical Conference, ANTEC conference proceedings volume 4 Proceedings of the 65th Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH, May 6-11. Society of Plastics Engineers, pp. 1968-1972. (72) Fu G., Tor S. B., Loh N. H., Tay B. Y., 2007 “Experimental study on the demolding force in Micro Metal Injection Molding”, 2nd International Conference on Micromanufacturing, Sept 10-13, Greenville SC, USA (2007). (73) G. Fu, S. B. Tor, N. H. Loh and B. Y. Tay 2008, Micro Hot-embossing of 316L Stainless Steel Micro-structures, 5th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing, 23-25 January 2008, Singapore. (74) S, G.Li, Z G Xu, A Mazzeo, D J. Burns, G Fu, M Dirckx, V Shilpiekandula, X Chen, N C. Nayak, E Wong,S F Yoon, Z P Fang, K Youcef-Toumi, D Hardt, S B Tor, C Y Yue, J H Chun, 2008, Review of production of microfluidic devices: material, manufacturing and metrology, PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF PHOTOOPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS (SPIE), Europe Photonics Europe 2008. Volume: 6993 Pages: F9930-F9930. (75) S.H.Yeo, P.C. Tan, E. Aligiri, S.B. Tor and N.H. Loh, 2008, Processing of ZirconiumBased Bulk Metallic Glass Using Micro Electrical Discharge Machining”, 13th International Conference on Machine Design and Production, Conference Proceedings, September 3-5, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey, pp.1029-1042. (76) S.B. Tor, G. Fu, N.H. Loh, B.Y. Tay and D.E. Hardt, 2008, Metallic Mold Inserts for Fabrication of Polymer Microfluidic Devices, 6th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing, 12-14th November 2008, Athens, Greece, 6A.1. (77) D.E. Hardt, B. W. Anthony and S.B. Tor, 2008, A Teaching Factory for Polymer Microfabrication – μFac, 6th International Symposium on Nanomanufacturing, 12-14th November 2008, Athens, Greece, 3A.2. (78) B. Saha, N. W. Khun, S. B. Tor, E. Liu, D. E. Hardt, Chun Jung Hoon, 2008, Structural and Tribological Properties of DLC Coatings Synthesized by dc Magnetron Cosputtering,The 7th International Conference on Materials Processing for Properties and Performance (MP3), 6th November 20, 2008, Paper No.: AMFT-7037. (79) B. Saha, S.B. Tor, E. Liu, D.E. Hardt, and J.H. Chun, 2009, Improvement of Replication of Patterns by Using Anti-sticking DLC Coating Micromolds, The Annual SMA Symposium 2009, 21-22 January Singapore. - 16 - (80) S.B. Tor, G. Fu, N.H. Loh and D.E. Hardt, 2009 A Universal Development Platform for the Design and Fabrication of Polymeric Microfluidic Devices, The Annual SMA Symposium 2009, 21-22 January Singapore. (81) D.E. Hardt, B. W. Anthony and S.B. Tor, 2009, A Teaching Factory for Polymer Microfluidic Devices, The Annual SMA Symposium 2009, 21-22 January Singapore. (82) N H Loh, S B Tor, Fu G., B Y Tay, Y Murakoshi, R Maeda, 2009, “PIM2009:Workshop on medical applications of micro powder injection molding”, March 4-5 2009. Orlando, Florida, USA. (83) G. Fu, S. B. Tor, N. H. Loh, B. Y. Tay and D. E. Hardt, 2009, Fabrication of robust tooling for mass production of polymeric microfluidic devices, Euro-PM2009, Copenhagen, Denmark. 12-14 October 2009. (84) G. Fu, S.B. Tor, N.H. Loh, B.Y. Tay and D.E. Hardt, 2010, Fabrication of robust tooling for mass production of Polymeric Microfluidic Devices, The Annual SMA Symposium 2010, 19 January 2010, Singapore. (85) B. Saha, S. B. Tor, E. Liu, D. E. Hardt, J. H. Chun, 2010, Improvement on Micro-mold Life and Duplication Quality via DLC Coatings, The Annual SMA symposium, 19th January 2010, Singapore. (86) B. Saha, E. Liu, S. B. Tor, D. E. Hardt, J. H. Chun, 2010, Modification of surface properties of Si micro-molds by DLC coatings deposited with DC magnetron sputtering, 11th European Vacuum Conference, EVC-11, Salamanca, Spain, September 20-24, 2010. (87) E. Liu, B. Saha, S. B. Tor, D. E. Hardt, J. H. Chun, 2010, Modification of surface properties of Si micro-molds by DLC coatings deposited with DC magnetron sputtering, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Annual Meeting and Exhibition 2010; Las Vegas, NV; 16 May 2010 through 20 May 2010, pp28-30. (88) B. Saha, S. B. Tor*, E. Liu, D. E. Hardt, J. H. Chun, 2011, A rigorous study on capability of OTS coating in hot-embossing process for fabrication of microfluidic device; SMA Symposium, January 2011, Singapore. (89) G. Fu, S. B. Tor, N. H. Loh and D. E. Hardt 2011, An automatic dual-stage micro hotembossing and bonding machine for mass fabrication of polymeric microfluidics devices, SMA Symposium, January 2011, Singapore. (90) Tor S.B. and Yue C.Y. 2011, Some Project Management Perspectives in Establishing Interdisciplinary Research: An Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) – MST perspective, invited keynote speech, ProMAC Symposium 2011, 29 Nov-2Dec 2011, Indonesia. (91) Wu W.J., Tor S.B. Chua C.K. Liu Z.H., Lui O.K.B. and Merchant A.A. 2014, Preliminary investigation on SLM of ASTM A131 EH36 high tensile strength steel for shipbuilding applications, Prodeedings of the 1st International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 26-28 May 2014, Singapore, pp158-163. (92) Tan X.P., Kok Y.H., Tor S.B. and Chua C.K., Application of electron beam melting(EBM) in additive manufacturing of an impeller, Prodeedings of the 1st International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 26-28 May 2014, Singapore, pp327-332, - 17 - (93) Kok Y.H., Tor S.B. and Loh N.H., 2014, Comparison of two additive manufacturing technologies: selective laser melting and electron beam melting, Prodeedings of the 1st International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 26-28 May 2014, Singapore, pp231-239. (94) Wu W.J. and Tor S.B. 2014, 3D printing for marketing and advistiment industry, Prodeedings of the 1st International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 26-28 May 2014, Singapore, pp303-308. (95) B. Saha, E. Liu, S. B. Tor. 2014, N:DLC:Ni antisticking coating for micromold, 28th International Conference on Surface Modification Technologies, 16th-18th June 2014, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. (96) Wu W.J., Tor S.B., Lui O.K.B. and Merchant A.A. 2014, Study of additive manufacturing in offshore & marine, Rapid 2014 Conference. (c) Books, Monographs and Chapters (1) Britton, S. B. Tor, and R. deSouza, 1992 CAD Solid Modelling and Interactive NC Programming, Hillview Publications, June 1992, Singapore, 200pages. (2) Tor, S.B.; Britton, G.A.; M. Chandrashekar; & Ng K.W. 1997. Functional Design. Chapter 2, Integrated Product and Process Development: Methods, Tools and Technologies, ed. J.M. Usher et al., Wiley: New York, pp 29-58. (3) Lye S.W.; Lee S.G.; Tor S.B.; Yeong H.Y., 1997 Integrated product & process development: methods, tools and technologies, an integrated framework for the design, manufacture and rapid protyping of protective product packaging buffers, J Wiley & Sons Inc. (4) Fok S.C., Tor S.B., Britton G.A., Lim S.Y.E., 1999 “Potential of V.R. in manufacturing: a Singapore perspective”, Halimahtun M. Khalid [Ed.], Virtual Reality: Selected Tools and Applications, UNIMAS, Malaysia. (5) Fok, S.C., Tor, S.B., & Khoo, L.P., 1999 Potential of cyberspace with virtual reality and soft computing for advancing fluid power development, in A. Garbacik & J.S. Stecki [ed], Developments in Fluid Power Control of Machinery and Manipulators, Fluid Power Net Publ., Australia, 1999. (6) Fok, S.C., Tor, S.B., Britton G.A. & Lim, S.Y.E., 2000 Virtual reality applications for design and manufacturing in Singapore, Halimantun [ed], Virtual Reality: Select Issues and Applications, Asean Academic Press, London, 2000, pp119-142. (7) Britton, G. A., Tor, S. B. and Zhang, W. Y., 2005 Techniques in knowledge-based expert systems for the design of engineering systems. In Leondes, C. T. (ed.), Intelligent Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 3, pp. 3-54, Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York. - 18 - (8) Ying Liu, Han Tong Loh, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Shu Beng Tor. 2007 Handling of Imbalanced Data in Text Classification: Category Based Term Weights. “Natural Language and Text Mining Processing”, Anne Kao & Steve Poteet (eds), pp171-193, Springer London, 2007/01, ISBN:9781846281754. (9) G. Fu, N. H. Loh, S. B. Tor and B. Y. Tay, 2011 Chapter 11: Metal Injection Molding at Micro-scales (µMIM), Editors: Muammer Koç and Tugrul Özel, Micro-Manufacturing: Design and Manufacturing of Micro-Products, pp347-369, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2011, ISBN: 978-0-470-55644-3. (10) B. Saha, E. Liu and S. B. Tor, 2013 Chapter1: Nanotribological phenomena, principles and mechanisms for MEMS, Editors: Sujeet K Sinha; N Satyanarayana; Seh Chun Lim, Nano-tribological and Materials for MEMS, p1-51, Springer publication, April 30, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-36934-6. - 19 -