Abstract Textured surfaces have been widely applied in many fields due to their excellent functional performances. Although several micro-scale surface texturing techniques used fabricate textures, most are either very expensive, material limitations, or lack flexibility. In this study, a novel textured generation method using vibration-assisted ball-end milling with non-resonant vibrator is pr...

Cereal Chem. 86(4):470–476 The degree of similarity between rice milled in a McGill #2 laboratory mill and commercial milling processes was evaluated using eight physical, physicochemical, and end-use properties. There was no statistical difference between the two milling systems with respect to color parameters L* and a*, final viscosity, texture, and end-use cooking properties (α = 0.05). Ove...

A visual cutting chip control system is designed to automatically adjust feed rate in order to maintain constant surface roughness in ball-end milling. The proposed visual control system has a modular structure, consisting of an optical vision system (OVS), an adaptive cutting chip size-control loop for a feed servo and a surface roughness in-process prediction model. The OVS is employed to acq...

Milling is the mechanical process of removing material from a piece of stock through the use of a rapidly spinning circular milling tool in order to form some desired geometric shape. An important problem in computer-aided design and manufacturing is the automated generation of efficient milling plans for computerized numerically controlled (CNC) milling machines. Among the most common milling ...