Abrasive flow polishing plays an important part in modern ultra-precision machining. Ultrafine particles suspended in the medium of abrasive flow removes the material in nanoscale. In this paper, three-dimensional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to investigate the effect of impacting direction on abrasive cutting process during abrasive flow polishing. The molecular dynamics s...

Due to increasing demands on cutting tools, cutting edge preparation is of high priority because of its influence on the tool life. Current cutting edge preparation processes are mostly limited to generating simple roundings on the cutting edge. Multi-axis high precision form grinding processes offer great potential to generate defined cutting edge microgeometries. Knowledge about the relation ...

Boring is a frequently employed finishing operation in machine shops. Boring is a process in which pre-drilled holes or holes in cast, forged or extruded components are enlarged or finished with a cutting tool mounted on a boring bar. The process is mostly used in applications where close dimensional tolerances and good surface finish are required. In this research work based on the theoretical...

In this study, turning operation of Monel K500 copper-nickel super-alloy was evaluated. Ceramic cutting tools with two different cutting noses (conventional and wiper) were utilized. At first, the experimental tests were designed by using central composite design method. After implementation of the tests, the statistical models for output data (surface roughness, cutting force, and flank wear) ...

The condition of a cutting tool is an important factor in manufacturing processes. Tool wear has a strong influence on the cutting forces, resulting in a poor surface finish and impacting on the dimensional tolerance of the workpiece. Therefore, the use of a dynamometer during machining to measure cutting forces is a well-known approach but it has several limitations such as high cost, poor per...

Simulating cutting processes of human tissue is an important feature in virtual reality systems for medical training and rehearsal. In this paper we present a method to simulate the cutting operation in voxel-based virtual reality objects intended to simulate volume cutting in transurethral resection of the prostate. The method allows the user to directly interact with the three dimensional mod...

The d-dimensional bin packing problem (OBPP-d) is the problem of finding the minimum number of containers needed to contain a set of orthogonally packed d-dimensional rectangular boxes. In OBPP-d solvers two subproblems are crucial: Calculating lower bounds and solving the decision problem (OPP-d) of determining if a set of boxes can be orthogonally packed into a single container. This thesis f...

In this study, turning operation of Monel K500 copper-nickel super-alloy was evaluated. Ceramic cutting tools with two different cutting noses (conventional and wiper) were utilized. At first, the experimental tests were designed by using central composite design method. After implementation of the tests, the statistical models for output data (surface roughness, cutting force, and flank wear) ...

Cutting stock problems and bin packing problems are basically the same problems. They differ essentially on the variability of the input items. In the first, we have a set of items, each item with a given multiplicity; in the second, we have simply a list of items (each of which we may assume to have multiplicity 1). Many approximation algorithms have been designed for packing problems; a natur...