Surface topography analysis in high speed finish milling inclined hardened steel

Precision Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 386-398

  Toh, C K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cutter path; Hardened steel; High speed finish milling; Roughness; Surface topography

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; CRACKS; CUTTING TOOLS; HARDNESS; MILLING (MACHINING); SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CUTTER PATH; HARDENED STEEL; HIGH SPEED FINISH MILLING; TOOL VIBRATIONS;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 4544373944     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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