The High Efficiency Machining Process and Machining of Complex Materials

Dear Colleagues,

The industrial production is undergoing some pragmatics changes. These changes are defined by key enabling technologies, also known as KET, implying a turning point in our understanding the production.

In this way, the production must be adapted to new performance models, where all the elements involved in the production system must improve their role in the best possible way. In other words, the production system must increase its efficiency significantly.

Traditionally, machining processes are a production operation in which the efficiency is generally low. Therefore, the search for a high efficiency machining process is a strategic necessity for the industry.

On top of that, the industry has the need to use complex, high-performance materials, which requires high-efficiency processes in order to improve the overall outcome.

This Special Issue is open to advances in the following two aspects: the improvement of the efficiency of the machining processes and the advancement of the use of complex materials in the machining process, involving the following:

• An mproved, efficient machining process (conventional and non-conventional);
• A new, high-efficiency machining process;
• Traditional machining applied to complex materials;
• New machining processes applied to complex materials;
• Improved, efficient machining of complex materials;
• The application of a KET to improve the machining process;
• New tools, new characterization methods, and tool wear control;
• An adaptive machining process;
• Improvement of the performance of the machining process;
• A hybrid machining process.

Dr. Moises Batista
Dr. Severo Raul Fernandez-Vidal
Dr. Jorge Salguero
Prof. Dr. J. Paulo Davim
Guest Editors

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