Process planning for corner machining based on a looping tool path strategy

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 225, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1578-1590

  Banerjee, A ^a,d   Feng, H Y ^b   Bordatchev, E V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d LIFE PREDICTION TECHNOLOGIES INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corner machining; Cutting force; Looping tool path; Process planning

Indexed keywords

CUTTING FORCE; CUTTING FORCES; DEPTH OF CUT; FEED-RATES; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED PROCESS; LOOPING TOOL PATH; MACHINING FEATURE; MACHINING PARAMETERS; MACHINING TIME; MULTIPLE LOOPS; OPTIMAL PROCESS; SURFACE FINISHES; TEST CASE; TOLERANCE LIMITS; TOOL DEFLECTION; TOOL PATH GENERATION; TOOL STRUCTURE; TOOLPATHS;

MACHINING CENTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS PLANNING;

SCANNING;

EID: 84855947709     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: 20412975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0954405411401687     Document Type: Conference Paper

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