Nowadays, coatings have been widely deposited on cutting tool inserts due to their superior
wear resistant and thermal barrier effect in metal manufacturing industry. Tool coatings avoid …

Micro-textured surfaces are widely used in aerospace, electronics, biomedical, optics and
other fields due to their excellent properties. By now there are many ways to obtain the …

Finite element (FE) simulation of machining can be used as a replacement or a
supplementary to the physical experiment allowing an analysis to be performed at a lower …

The parts produced by additive manufacturing (AM) are not usually appropriate for direct
applications and require several post-processing operations. Micro-milling, as a most …

Micro-milling process is a direct and flexible fabrication method in producing functional three
dimensional micro-products. The advance of micro-milling process ultimately depends on …

Micro-end milling is one of the promising methods for rapid fabrication of features with 3D
complex shapes. However, controlling the micro-end milling process to obtain the desired …

Finite element (FE) simulation is an efficient and time-saving method to optimize the high-
speed machining process of aluminum (Al) alloy. The constitutive model accurately …

The need for more effective and efficient manufacturing processes to transform the
biocompatible materials into high standard artificial human body components (implants) is …

Selective laser melting (SLM) is a three-dimensional (3D) printing process that can
manufacture functional parts with complex geometries as an alternative to using traditional …

The cutting mechanism changes back and forth between ploughing-dominated and
shearing-dominated in micro-milling of channel. This study was to research the tool wear …