Industrial robots are used in a great variety of applications for handling, welding and milling operations. They represent a cost-saving and flexible alternative for machining applications. A reduced pose and path accuracy, especially under process force load due to the high mechanical compliance, restrict the use of industrial robots for further machining applications. In this paper a method i...

Aluminium (Al)/Aluminium alloy composites are emerging as very promising materials, especially in the fields of aerospace and automotive for their various attractive and technically demanding properties. Discontinuously reinforced aluminium metal matrix composites with reinforcements as nanoparticles of ceramics in general and carbon nanotubes in particular have emerged as the forerunner for a ...

Force control is an effective means of improving the quality and productivity of machining operations. Metal cutting force models are difficult to accurately generate and, thus, there is large uncertainty in the model parameters. This has lead to investigations into robust force control techniques; however, the approaches reported in the literature include known process changes (e.g., a change ...

Many studies simulates the machining process by using a single degree of freedom springmass sytem to model the tool stiffness, or the workpiece stiffness, or the unit toolworkpiece stiffness in modelings 2D. Others impose the tool action, or use more or less complex modelings of the efforts applied by the tool taking account the tool geometry. Thus, all these models remain two-dimensional or so...

Machining of thin-walled (aluminium alloy) aerospace structures is a critical process due to the high warpage. Current practices in the fixture design and the choice of cutting parameters rely solely on conservative guidelines and the designer’s experience. This paper presents evaluation of clamping force to fix the work piecein aVacuum fixture using Vacuum pump. The ISCARonline calculator is u...

In traditional Computer Numerical Control (CNC) systems, machining parameters are usually selected prior to machining according to handbooks or user’s experience. These practices tend to select conservative parameters in order to avoid machining failure and assure product quality specifications. Less conservative practices try to find optimal machining parameters off-line to increase process pr...

This paper deals with the study of various machining process and show the effect of different cutting parameters on the properties of material. There are several important factors in the product quality which are surface finish, cutting temperature, tool life and coolant quality. The use of coolant generally causes life of tools and it also maintains work piece surface properties without damage...

Thin-walled workpieces, such as aero-engine blisks and casings, are usually made of hard-to-cut materials. The wall thickness is very small and it is easy to deflect during milling process under dynamic cutting forces, leading to inaccurate workpiece dimensions and poor surface integrity. To understand the workpiece deflection behavior in a machining process, a new real-time nonintrusive method...

This paper proposes a design method for chatter monitoring based on the fourth order statistics estimation applied to the modelling error. Usually, a test of hypothesis is built on an a priori knowledge of the statistical distribution. The frequency function is often assumed Gaussian. In the case of machining process without chatter, the Gaussian assumption is not valid. Consequently, the propo...

This Paper presents research on geometric errors of simulated geometry which are measured and compensate in vertical machining centres. There are many errors in CNC machine tools have effect on the accuracy and repeatability of manufacture. Most of these errors are based on specific parameters such as the strength and the stress, the dimensional deviations of the structure of the machine tool, ...