BACKGROUND Injection molding is an important manufacturing process for optical and mechanical components. The hard steel dies used in injection molding play a direct role in the quality of molded parts. Traditionally, fabricating the dies involved rough milling followed by heat treatment, grinding and polishing. Recently, high-speed machining of heattreated steel (hardness > 55 Rc) has become a...

Problem statement: The rotary inverted pendulum system was a highly nonlinear model, multivariable and absolutely unstable dynamic system. It was used for testing various design control techniques and in teaching modern control. The objectives of this study were to: (i) Develop a real rotary inverted pendulum which derived the mechanical model by using Euler-Lagrange and (ii) Design controller ...

Laser milling provides a new method of producing components for the micro tool manufacturing industry. This paper considers the technical capabilities of laser milling when applied to the machining of components for micro tooling. Characteristics important for laser milling as a micro tooling manufacturing process are reviewed. These characteristics are surface finish, aspect ratio, dimensional...

Machinability aspect is of considerable importance for efficient process planning in manufacturing. Machinability of an engineering material may be evaluated in terms of the process output variables like material removal rate, processed surface finish, cutting forces, tool life, specific power consumption, etc. In this paper, graph theoretic approach (GTA) is proposed to evaluate the cutting fo...

A modal-based model of milling machine tools subjected to time-periodic nonlinear cutting forces is introduced. The model describes the phenomenon of bistability for certain cutting parameters. In engineering, these parameter domains are referred to as unsafe zones, where steady-state milling may switch to chatter for certain perturbations. In mathematical terms, these are the parameter domains...

The objective of my research is to design and develop a unique tool-path planning system based on Micrography. CNC milling machines are extremely accurate, and fully automated; they are used widely in manufacturing industries. Thus, the some improvement of their tool-paths can have a widespread impact in this world. Figure 1 shows that tool-path planning for a simple pocket leads to various dif...

BACKGROUND Many new rotary files systems have been introduced, however, limited research has been conducted related to the surface irregularities of these files and if these have any effects on the files themselves. Hence, the aim of the present study was to analyze surface irregularities of the ProTaper® Universal rotary files (PTU) and the ProTaper Next™ rotary files (PTN) before and after in...

This paper was aimed at developing a computer aided design and manufacturing system for spatial cylindrical cams. In the proposed system, a milling tool with a diameter smaller than that of the roller, instead of the standard cutter for traditional machining process, was used to generate the tool path for spatial cams. To verify the feasibility of the proposed method, a multi-axis machining sim...

This paper deals with a predictive model of kinematical performance in 5-axis milling within the context of High Speed Machining. Indeed, 5-axis high speed milling makes it possible to improve quality and productivity thanks to the degrees of freedom brought by the tool axis orientation. The tool axis orientation can be set efficiently in terms of productivity by considering kinematical constra...