Metals Machining – Recent Advances in Experimental and Modeling of the Cutting Process

Dear Colleagues,

Metals machining involves severe loading at the cutting zone. Work-material behavior, cutting tool characteristics, cutting conditions and configuration, all have effects on cutting process performance, machined part quality, and cutting cost. In the last few years, several research works have been conducted to understand the physical phenomena occurring when machining metal-based materials. However, a great deal remains to be studied, because new high-performance metals are being developed and their machinability is not well controlled (excessive wear, built-up edge formation, surface integrity degradation, chip fragmentation difficulty, etc.). For instance, mechanisms of microstructure evolution when machining metals having a complex microstructure are not clearly explained (e.g., is there recrystallization or not?). Thus, the study of cutting phenomena in metals machining remains open.

This Special Issue invites the submission of high quality research articles related to the machining of metal-based materials. It covers a large topic and may include these main aspects:

• Metal machinability (e.g., cutting power, hardness, ductility, chemical reaction, etc.)
• Work-material behavior (e.g., work-hardening, ductility, heat generation, etc.)
• Tribological behavior, e.g., related to cutting conditions (dry or wet)
• Microstructure evolution (e.g., recrystallization, grain size, etc.)
• Chip formation mechanisms (e.g., segmentation, fragmentation, etc.)
• Surface integrity, e.g., related to the surface roughness and induced residual stresses, etc.
• Tools wear, related to the machined metal and tool characteristics
• Tools design based on work-material characteristics (e.g., chip breaker, edge preparation)

High quality research works on metals machining, related to experiments (e.g., instrumented cutting tests), characterization (e.g., hardness, fracture, microstructure), and modeling (e.g., analytical, numerical) are expected.

Assoc. Prof. Badis HADDAG
Guest Editor

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