Although current rapid prototyping methods have had a significant impact on product and process design, they are often limited in both accuracy and choice of suitable materials. Also, the current methods share little similarity to typical manufacturing processes. In this paper, a method for using CNC machining as a Rapid Prototyping process is described in order to exploit the creation of funct...

CNC machining is known as an advanced machining process increasingly used for modern materials. This paper outlines modeling methodology applied to optimize cutting parameters during CNC milling with ball end mill tool. The parameters taken into account were radial depth of cut and feed per tooth. A predictive model was based on artificial neural network approach. Key-Words: Modeling, artificia...

Accurate prediction on energy consumption in machining is helpful to evaluate process energy characteristics and choose process methods for energy saving. Specific energy consumption expresses the required energy consumption when cutting unit volume material. The Back Propagation (BP) neural network prediction method for specific energy consumption in machining is set up in the paper. The predi...

A new dynamic friction model for modeling of elliptical vibration assisted turning (EVAT) was developed in this research. The periodic change of the friction force direction is known to be one of the most important causes of this phenomenon. In modeling of machining processes (including the EVAT process), static Coulomb friction model was employed by most of the researchers. Because of the peri...

Optimization of operating parameters is an important step in machining, particularly for operating unconventional machining procedure like Wirecut Electro Discharge Machining. Since wire-cut EDM has experienced explosive growth in application users demand and need maximum productivity and through-put, increased accuracy, and predictable performance. Also machines and job requirements vary great...

WEDM is a one of the non-conventional machining processes used for machining complex shape components and hard materials to produce intricate shapes on the wide variety of materials. With the increasing demands of high surface finish and high rate of MRR of complex shape geometries, WEDM machining process is now being replaced by non-traditional machining processes. According to this paper, opt...

Sustainability has become a very significant research topic since it impacts many different manufacturing industries. The adoption of sustainable manufacturing practices and technologies offers industry a cost effective route to improve economic, environmental, and social performance. As a major manufacturing process, the machining system plays an important role for sustainable manufacturing on...

Due to the widespread use of highly automated machine tools in the industry, manufacturing requires reliable models and methods for the prediction of output performance of machining processes. The prediction of optimal machining conditions for good surface finish and dimensional accuracy plays a very important role in process planning. The present work deals with the study and development of a ...

In this paper, it is shown that dynamic optimization problems of first-order systems can be transformed into a static parametric programming problem, where the state plays the role of the parameter. Thus, an optimal feedback law is obtained. This concept is applied to the diesinking Electrical Discharge Machining, a highly time varying industrial process which necessitates adaptation of machini...

Flood cooling is primarily used to cool and lubricate the cutting tool and workpiece interface during machining process. The adverse health effects caused by the use of coolants and the potential economic advantages of greener machining methods are drawing manufacturer’s attention to adapt and develop new methods of using lubricants. Microlubrication serves as an alternative to flood cooling by...