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...

Laser cutting is a complex multi-input multi-output machining process. To satisfy different requirements regarding laser cut quality it is necessary to determine optimal laser cutting conditions. This paper demonstrates the application of the grey relational analysis for optimization of different laser cut quality characteristics such as the depth of separation line, drag line separation and bu...

A R T I C L E I N F O AISI D2 steel, Tool wear, Workpiece surface temperature, Taguchi method, Regression analysis. Received 19 July 2012 Accepted 29 August 2012 Available online 31 December 2012 Now-a-days increasing the productivity and the quality of the machined parts are the main challenges of metal cutting industry during turning processes. Optimization methods in turning processes, consi...

Purpose: An adaptive control system is built which controlling the cutting force and maintaining constant roughness of the surface being milled by digital adaptation of cutting parameters. Design/methodology/approach: The paper discusses the use of combining the methods of neural networks, fuzzy logic and PSO evolutionary strategy (Particle Swarm Optimization) in modeling and adaptively control...

Laser based cutting processes comprise a significant part of industrial manufacturing. To ensure a high level of cutting quality the process parameters have to be kept at the right values and within defined tolerances. In this context, the position of the laser beam focus is one of the most important parameters. However, due to thermal heating of optical elements the focal position shows a tran...

Cutting tool and machining parameters selection are central activity in process planning, which was traditionally performed by numerical control programmers or machine tool operators. The surface integrity has great effect on part quality and the sudden tool failure increases the machining costs greatly. The present paper details the development of a cutting database system with surface integri...

Article history: Received January 1 2012 Received in revised format April 15 2013 Accepted April 15 2013 Available online April 15 2013 Cutting force and chip reduction coefficient is the important index of machinability as it determines the power consumption and amount of energy invested in machining actions. It is primarily influenced by process parameters like cutting speed, feed and depth o...

A R T I C L E I N F O Cutting tool vibration, Passive damping pad, Data acquisition, ANOVA, ANN. Received 20 February 2011 Accepted 23 February 2011 Available online 24 February 2011 Machining is a complex process in which many variables can deleterious the desired results. Among them, cutting tool vibration is the most critical phenomenon which influences dimensional precision of the component...

Taguchi's design of experiment is utilized to optimize the process parameters in turning operation with dry environment. Three parameters, cutting speed (v), feed (f), and depth of cut (d), with three different levels are taken for the responses like material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (R a ). The machining is conducted with Taguchi L9 orthogonal array, and based on the S/N analys...

Hard machining, as attractive replacement for many rough and finish grinding operation, generates high cutting forces and temperature that enhance tool wear when act together. Therefore, the tool geometry and machining parameters have to be carefully optimized for a given material. Because of high cost and time consuming experimental work up-to-date advanced software for modeling and simulation...