Dear Colleagues,

Cutting tools represent the key factor and executor to support and promote technological progress in machining metallic parts (even including finish processing of the additive manufactured metallic parts). The cutting performance and property improvement of cutting tools will affect the machining efficiency and machined surface integrity and then affect the production technology level and economic benefits of the whole high-end intelligent equipment manufacturing industries. This Special Issue aims to invite all researchers interested in widely understood cutting tools and their machining process research of metallic materials, with the hope to present their results in papers related to experimental, finite element method (FEM) simulation, and theoretical studies. The high-efficiency cutting mechanisms of various metallic materials; the preparation, optimization, manufacturing and performance of new developed tool materials; the optimization of geometric parameters of the tool structure; the design and development of tool coating materials and the improvement of the coating process; the design and optimization of green machining tools and clean/sustainable cutting processes; the development of special-structure tool systems (such as precision internal cooling tools, vibration-damping tools and composite tools, additive manufacturing lightweight tools, etc.); and intelligent tools will improve the cutting efficiency of metallic materials and the machined surface quality. Moreover, the development of intelligent manufacturing technology puts forward new requirements for tool state control and intellectualization in the processing of metal materials. Intelligent tool systems have the functions of automatic sensing cutting force, cutting heat, cutting vibration, and other state parameters in the machining process. New manufacturing technologies such as inkjet printing and the electronic packaging of heterogeneous materials provide new means to realize the integration of intelligent sensors and cutting tools in intelligent tool systems.

Dr. Anhai Li
Guest Editor

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• cutting tools
• metallic materials
• tool material
• tool coating
• cutting mechanism
• cutting simulation
• green/clean and sustainable cutting
• intelligent tool system