Recent Progress of Thin Wall Machining, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Following the success of our previous Special Issue, titled “Recent Progress of Thin Wall Machining” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines/special_issues/9JE0726ZUM), we are pleased to announce the next issue in the series, titled “Recent Progress of Thin Wall Machining, 2nd Edition”.

Many thin-wall parts, such as aircraft structural parts, impellers, and turbine blades, are widely used in the fields of aviation, aerospace, energy, and other fields. Currently, manufacturing thin-wall parts to enable their high performance is challenging. These thin-wall parts are crucial because they generally enable the core functions of high-end equipment. Moreover, these high-added-value products are becoming increasingly sophisticated. This means their thin-walled sub-structures need to be built with increasingly higher accuracy in geometry and performance. Currently, manufacturers face many barriers in creating thin-wall parts with desired shapes and properties due to their complex geometry, complicated thermal–mechanical coupling effects, low structural rigidity, time-varying dynamic characteristics, difficult-to-cut materials, and so on. Therefore, related theories and technologies that embrace chatter detection and suppression, tool path optimization, the control of residual stress distribution, etc., are vital to manufacturing thin-wall parts with high accuracy and efficiency.

This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for research that addresses challenges and advanced theories in the manufacture of thin-wall parts, which will benefit both researchers and manufacturers. Both original research and review articles related to thin-wall components are welcome.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Machining dynamics, stability prediction, and chatter suppression theory/technology;
• Deformation and compensation theory/technology;
• Tool path design and optimization;
• Cutting force prediction;
• Residual stress prediction and control theory/technology;
• Simulation theory/technology using the finite element method (FEM);
• Surface integrity control theory/methods/technology;
• Computer-aided design theory/methods.

Prof. Dr. Yuwen Sun
Guest Editor

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• damage
• fracture
• failure
• thin-walled structure
• finite element method
• experimental testing
• machining
• dynamics

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