Ultra-precision machining as an essential manufacturing technology has been widely
employed to acquire high surface quality and shape accuracy. However, the understanding …

In latest years small scale machining has been widely used in advanced engineering
applications such as medical and optical devices, micro-and nano-electro-mechanical …

Titanium alloy parts are usually hypothesized as isotropic mechanical properties during
micromachining operation. However, the crystal anisotropic mechanical property is an …

Crystal plasticity model with physics-based dislocation kinetics and hardening relations is
presented in this work. The model is applied to simple shearing of machining to determine …

In ultra-precision machining (UPM), the depth of cut is within an extremely small fraction of
the average grain size of the substrate materials to be cut. Polycrystalline materials …

For a range of precision machining and micromachining operations, the crystallographic
anisotropy plays a critical role in determining the machining forces. Part II of this work …

In this study, micro-machining of fcc single-crystal materials was investigated based on a
hybrid modelling approach combining smoothed particle hydrodynamics and continuum …

With the increased application of micromachining, including micromilling and microdrilling,
the need to develop accurate models for machining at the microscale has been recognized …

The micron components or structures with characteristic sizes ranging from a few hundred
nanometres to several micrometres, have been widely applied in various advanced areas …

Microstructural-related deformation behavior leads to anisotropic machining characteristics
of polycrystalline materials. In the present work, we develop a crystal plasticity finite element …