Cutter path strategies in high speed rough milling of hardened steel

Materials and Design

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-114

  Toh, C K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ferrous metal and alloys; Machining; Performance indices

Indexed keywords

CUTTING TOOLS; MACHINABILITY; MACHINE TOOLS; METAL CUTTING; MILLING (MACHINING);

CUTTER PATH GENERATION; HARDENED STEEL; HIGH SPEED MILLING; PERFORMANCE INDICES; ROUGH MILLING;

STEEL;

CUTTING TOOL; FERROUS METAL;

EID: 23944472749     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2004.09.021     Document Type: Article

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