State of the Art in Metal Cutting and Machining
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2025 | Viewed by 164
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hardmetal processing; mechanical properties; additive manufacturing; coatings development; cutting tools; machining process
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Interests: cutting tools; metal cutting; laser surface modification; additive manufacturing; laser melting/sintering; hybrid laser manufacturing; multi-material design.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global requirements for more sustainable processes and materials bring new challenges that need to be addressed. Machining processes and metal cutting are substrative processes that require continuous improvements to fulfill the new demands. The continuous development of artificial intelligence, more specifically deep learning and machine learning techniques than can predict machining behavior, the wear of cutting tools, and help to improve the overall productivity of the process, is one of this investigation’s drives. Also, the progress in cutting tool sensorization in order to acquire cutting data in real time that can contribute to a cutting tools’ lifetime increase is another drive. For a more sustainable machining process, minimum-quantity lubrication (MQL) methods are also being investigated. Therefore, we are currently seeing an increase in publications within this topic, reinforcing the publication of this Special Issue.
This Special Issue provides an opportunity to present the recent advances in metal cutting and machining process. In this Special Issue, we welcome high-quality reviews, articles, and short communications that focus on new developments in cutting tools and performance evaluations, machining simulations, deep and machine learning techniques, and process sensorization, MQL investigation.
Dr. Cristina M. Fernandes
Dr. Bruno Guimarães
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal cutting
- machining processes
- artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- machine learning
- sensorization
- minimum-quantity lubrication
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