Precision Machining

Dear Colleagues,

Material removal processes are considered exceptionally important manufacturing methods used, worldwide, for the production of mechanical components. A key feature of these processes is their ability to produce final products with high accuracy and of high quality. Conventional and non-conventional machining, as well as abrasive processes, are vital for the production of high quality components from many different materials categories. Automotive, aerospace and medical industries are only some of the sectors that machined components of high dimensional accuracy, exceptional properties, complex sizes and usually from difficult-to-machine materials, are employed.

The research in the refinement of machining or the introduction of new features is ongoing and fast-growing. Precision machining on large scale components but in the micro- and nano-regime as well, concentrate the interest of the researchers. In the success of the research there are other aspects that need to be considered as the machine tools design and control, cutting tools, metrology and quality control, manufacturing systems and automation and of course modeling and simulation with various methods such as finite elements method, molecular dynamics and soft computing.

This Special Issue aims at attracting researchers to present recent advances and technologies in the aforementioned fields and indicate the future trends for precision machining.

 Prof. Dr. Angelos P. Markopoulos

Guest Editor

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