Metal cutting processes are important due to increased consumer demands for quality metal cutting related products (more precise tolerances and better product surface roughness) that has driven the metal cutting industry to continuously improve quality control of metal cutting processes. This paper presents optimum surface roughness by using milling mould aluminium alloys (AA6061-T6) with Respo...

Just recently Flank Milling has opened up new possibilities in detailing large-scale architectural building envelopes. Whereas examples such as the Hungerburgbahn by Zaha Hadid show the application of Flank Milling at the end of the architectural manufacturing process, our research, in contrast, focuses on the implementation of constraints immanent to manufacturing techniques as early architect...

We demonstrate propagation of plasmons in single crystalline silver nanostructures fabricated using a combination of a bottom-up and a top-down approach. Silver nanoplates of thickness around 65 nm and a surface area of about 100 μm(2) are made using a wet chemical method. Silver nanotips and nanowires are then sculptured by focused ion beam milling. The plasmons are excited by using the fluore...

Presents article is deal with optimization of the fixture for end milling process, the most important objective being the minimization of work piece deformation by changing the layout of fixture elements and the clamping forces. The main objective of this work has been the optimization of the fixtures Work piece deformation subjected to clamping forces for End milling operation. The present ana...

Tool wear increases cutting force, vibration, temperature, etc in end milling and reduces surface finish of the machined work piece. Mathematical model has been developed to predict the tool wear in terms of machining parameters such as helix angle of cutting tool, spindle speed, feed rate, axial and radial depth of cut. Central composite rotatable second order response surface methodology was ...

 In the present study, an attempt has been made to experimentally investigate the effects of cutting parameters on cutting force in end milling of AISI 304 steel with solid carbide tools. Experiments were conducted based on four factors and five level central composite rotatable design. Mathematical model has been developed to predict the cutting forces in terms of cutting parameters such as he...

A new analytical cutting force model is proposed for micro-end-milling operations. The model calculates the chip thickness by considering the trajectory of the tool tip while the tool rotates and moves ahead continuously. The proposed approach allows the calculation of the cutting forces to be done accurately in typical micro-end-milling operations with very aggressively selected feed per tooth...

Recent improvements in geometric modelling systems hove led to the need for more reliable end highly automated softwore for machine tool path generation. Current machining algorithms require that any port geometric information which cannot be determined from the modelling system be supplied by the user. Much geometric information Is needed i f the model used to represent the pert is incomplete....

This paper presents a new approach for surface roughness (Ra) prediction during milling by using dynamometer to measure cutting forces signals and cutting conditions. End milling machining process of hardened die steel with carbide end mill, was modeled in this paper using the adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to predict the effect of machining variables (spindle speed, feed rate an...