Toroidal versus ball nose and flat bottom end mills

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 326-332

  Bedi, S ^a   Ismail, F ^a   Mahjoob, M J ^a   Chen, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

5 axis machining; Ball end mills; Feed mark; Flat end mills; Scallop height estimation; Toroidal end mill

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MILLING (MACHINING); SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FLAT END MILLS; SCALLOP HEIGHT ESTIMATION; TOROIDAL END MILL;

BALL MILLS;

EID: 0030677809     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01178252     Document Type: Article

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