Machinability of Advanced Materials

Machinability of Advanced Materials addresses the level of difficulty involved in machining a material, or multiple materials, with the appropriate tooling and cutting parameters.  A variety of factors determine a material’s machinability, including tool life rate, cutting forces and power consumption, surface integrity, limiting rate of metal removal, and chip shape. These topics, among others, and multiple examples comprise this research resource for engineering students, academics, and practitioners.

Preface ix Chapter 1. Machinability: Existing and Advanced Concepts 1 Viktor P. Astakhov Chapter 2. Milling Burr Formation and Avoidance 57 Seyed A. Niknam, Walery Wygowski, Marek Balazinksi and Victor Songmene Chapter 3. Machinability of Titanium and Its Alloys 95 Ali Hosseini, Hossam A. Kishawy and Hussein M. Hussein Chapter 4. Effects of Alloying Elements on the Machinability of Near-Eutectic Al-Si Casting Alloys 119 Yasser Zedan, Saleh A. Alkahtani and Fawzy H. Samuel 5. The Machinability of Hard Materials – A Review 145 Paulo Campos, J. Paulo Davim, J. Roberto Ferreira, A. Paulo Paiva and P. Paulo Balestrassi Chapter 6. An Investigation of Ductile Regime Machining of Silicon Nitride Ceramics 175 Vijayan Krishnaraj and S. Senthil Kumar List of Authors 229 Index 233