For the curved layer deposition with wire and arc additive manufacturing on complex
surface, the molten pool behavior and bead geometry are variant at different welding …

Off-line programming of the polishing tool trajectory for complex workpieces is challenging
due to the nontrivial material removal model and the polishing accuracy requirement …

Characterisation of freeform surfaces is an increasingly importance area of metrology.
Currently the characterisation of surfaces is performed using data that can be represented …

With the rapid progress of science and technology, complex optical surfaces have been
widely used in various devices. Due to the complexity of their geometric features, machining …

Currently, microscopic inverted conical holes, grooves, and other structures with inverted
cone angles are increasingly being utilized in aerospace equipment, medical devices, and …

For workpieces featured with complex shapes, it is difficult to plan their toolpaths for robotic
belt grinding by off-line programming (OLP) owing to frequent gouges between the …

Freeform surfaces are widely used in many industries for various purposes, and multi-axis
CNC machining is the most adopted method for machining them due to its high accuracy …

Surface finishing such as grinding or polishing is a time-consuming task, involves health
risks for humans and is still largely performed by hand. Due to the high curvatures of …

Complex curved surface parts are widely applied in the manufacturing industry for specific
functions. With the continuous improvement of the geometric complexity and the machining …

This paper reports a novel method to generate adaptive spiral tool path for the CNC
machining of complex sculptured surface represented in the form of cloud of points without …