Modern Machining Technology

Prof. (Dr.) J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, with over 35 years of experience in Mechanical, Materials, and Industrial Engineering. He holds multiple distinguished academic titles, including a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and a DSc from London Metropolitan University. He has published over 300 books and 600 articles, with more than 36,500 citations. He is ranked among the world's top 2% scientists by Stanford University and holds leadership positions in numerous international journals, conferences, and research projects. J. Paulo Davim received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, the M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, the Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with a MBA and Specialist title in Engineering and Industrial Management. Currently, he is Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials and Mechanical Engineering with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management & Industrial Engineering and Higher Education for Sustainability & Engineering Education. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and masters students as well as coordinated & participated in several research projects. He has received several scientific awards. He has worked as evaluator of projects for international research agencies as well as examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 25 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 80 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 100 books and as author (and co-author) more than 10 books, 80 book chapters and 400 articles in journals and conferences (more than 200 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 45+/6000+ citations and SCOPUS/h-index 52+/8000+ citations).

"This publication is a digestible, practical guide to modern machining technology. It will be useful to production managers as well as mechanical engineering students." --Materials World, Professor Alan Stainer FIMMM

• List of figuresList of tablesPrefaceAbout the contributorsChapter 1: TurningAbstract:1.1 Introduction1.2 Basic motions1.3 The turning regime1.4 Cutting force and power1.5 Uncut (undeformed) chip thickness, equivalent cutting edge, chip flow direction, and true chip cross-section parameters1.6 Design of a turning operation1.7 Particularities of the geometry of cutting tool with indexable inserts1.8 Cutting feed and surface finish in turning1.9 Tool wear of SPTT1.10 How to deal with vibrations in turningChapter 2: DrillingAbstract:2.1 Introduction2.2 Drilling definition2.3 Drill classification2.4 Basic terms2.5 Drilling regime2.6 Drilling system2.7 Tool layout as the starting point in the drilling system design2.8 Drilling system – drillChapter 3: MillingAbstract:3.1 Milling and milling operations3.2 Cutting parameters in the milling operations3.3 Tool wear in milling3.4 The current milling machines3.5 Milling technology and machines for several sectors and applications3.6 Milling forces modelling3.7 Vibrations in milling3.8 Conclusion3.9 AcknowledgementsChapter 4: Grinding and finishing processesAbstract:4.1 Introduction4.2 High performance grinding using conventional abrasive wheels4.3 High performance grinding using cBN grinding wheels4.4 Superfinishing processes4.5 AcknowledgementsChapter 5: Thermal advanced machining processesAbstract:5.1 Introduction to thermal machining processes5.2 Thermal sources5.3 Laser beam machining5.4 Case study: thermal enhanced cutting processesIndex