In a production of filigree and complex geometries, different NC-controlled processes such as laser cutting, EDM milling, and micromachining require a constant feed rate to ensure high-quality manufacturing results. Due to the technically limited acc...
In recent years, much research has been devoted to the evaluation of physical phenomena and the technological effects of precise and micromilling processes. However, the available current literature lacks synthetic work covering the current state of...
In the most recent decades the introduction of unconventional machining processes allowed the development of micromachining techniques. In this work, the influence of material microstructures on the micromilling process was investigated. Ti6Al4V allo...
Due to the strong plasticity of Inconel 718 and the significant size effect of micromachining, a large number of burrs will be produced in traditional processing. The addition of ultrasonic vibration during machining can reduce the burr problem. The...
Compared to milling on a macro scale, the micromilling process has several cumbersome points that need to be addressed. Rapid tool wear and fracture, severe burr formation, and poor surface quality are the major problems encountered in the micromilli...
Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is of growing interest in the application of microfluidic devices and high precision optical elements due to its excellent moldability and formability. Micromilling is one of the micromachining methods which has been...
The diagnosis of several diseases can be performed by analyzing the blood plasma of a patient. Despite extensive research work, there is still a need to improve current low-cost fabrication techniques and devices for the separation of plasma from blo...
The increasing demand for complex and wear-resistant forming tools made of difficult-to-machine materials requires efficient manufacturing processes. In terms of high-strength materials; highly suitable processes such as micromilling are limited in t...
The high quality demand for machined functional surfaces of forming tools, entail extensive investigations for the adjustment of the manufacturing process. Since the surface quality depends on a multitude of influencing factors in face micromilling,...
Titanium alloys are widely used in aerospace and biomedicine because of their excellent mechanical characteristics, but these properties also make such alloys difficult to cut. Jet electrochemical micromilling (JEMM) is based on the principle of elec...
Optimization of cutting parameters in micro-milling is an important measure to improve surface quality and machining efficiency of the workpiece. Investigation of micro-milling forces prediction plays a positive role in improving machining capacity....
Micro-milling tools are usually used for the 3D precision processing of micro metal parts under ultra-high speed. However, due to the structural characteristics of small scale, variable cross-section, and weak stiffness, the vibration of micro-millin...
Surface roughness and burr formation are among the most important surface quality metrics which determine the quality of the fabricated parts. High precision machined microparts with complex features require micromachining process to achieve the desi...
Micro-milling, widely employed across various fields, faces significant challenges due to the small diameter and limited stiffness of its tools, making the process highly susceptible to cutting chatter and premature tool breakage. Ensuring stable and...
In the process of micro-milling, the appearance of the edge-size-effect of micro-milling tools cannot be ignored when the cutting parameters are smaller than the cutting edge arc radius (r0) of the micro-milling tool or close to it, and it could easi...
Deep-and-narrow micro-grooves are the common functional structures of miniature parts. The fabrication of the micromilled grooves with high quality and accuracy is the essential guarantee of the causative performance for these miniature parts, and mi...
Difficult-to-cut titanium matrix composites (TiB+TiC)/Ti6Al4V have extensive application prospects in the fields of biomedical and aerospace metal microcomponents due to their excellent mechanical properties. Jet electrochemical micromilling (JEMM) t...
The micro-machining scale effect makes it challenging to forecast and control the process parameters of the micro-milling process, which makes the micro-flanking-milling of weak-rigidity micro-thin-walled parts prone to deformation. To determine the...
The minimum uncut chip thickness (MUCT), dividing the cutting zone into the shear region and the ploughing region, has a strong nonlinear effect on the cutting force of micro-milling. Determining the MUCT value is fundamental in order to predict the...
This study aims to enhance surgical safety and facilitate patient recovery through the investigation of vibration-assisted micro-milling technology for bone-material removal. The primary objective is to reduce cutting force and improve surface qualit...
In micro-milling, the periodically varying chip thickness, which varies with tool rotation, leads to varying degrees of minimum chip thickness effect and ploughing effect during surface generation. This results in a change of roughness in the cross-s...
The vibration of the micro-milling tool presents a significant chaotic vibration phenomenon, which has a great influence on the tool life and part machining precision, and is one of the basic problems restricting the improvement of machining efficien...
Mechanistic cutting force model has the potential for monitoring micro-milling tool wear. However, the existing studies mainly consider the linear cutting force model, and they are incompetent to monitor the micro-milling tool wear which has a signif...
Aluminum alloy LF 21 has a strong ability to reflect electromagnetic waves. LF 21 waveguide slit array structure is widely used in waveguide radar antenna. The stiffness of the slit array structure is relatively weak. So, the structure is prone to de...
The evaluation of micromilled parts quality requires detailed assessments of both geometry and surface topography. However, in many cases, the reduced accessibility caused by the complex geometry of the part makes it impossible to perform direct meas...
The surface quality of the sidewall in waveguide antennae is important, especially surface roughness, which directly affects the electrical performance of the slotted waveguide antenna. Micro-milling is a potentially effective processing technique fo...
In this study, minimum quantity coolant/lubrication (MQCL) is found to have significant impact on the surface quality and mechanical properties of the micromilled thin-walled work piece that is the core component of an aeroaccelerometer. Three kinds...
In order to avoid catastrophic events that degrade the quality of machined products, such as tool breakage, it is vital to have a prognostic system for monitoring tool wear during the micro-milling process. Despite the long history of the tool wear m...
Microfluidics provides precise control of microscale fluid transport and has become central to biomedical, pharmaceutical, and industrial technologies. However, conventional fabrication methods such as photolithography and soft lithography require cl...
Micro-milling has found extensive applications in machining components with thin-walled microstructures, such as terahertz slow-wave structures, microfluidic chips, and micro-molds. Due to the influence of size effects, micro-milling exhibits higher...
Cobalt-chromium-molybdenum (Co-Cr-Mo) alloys are very promising materials, in particular, in the biomedical field where their unique properties of biocompatibility and wear resistance can be exploited for surgery applications, prostheses, and many ot...
During micro-milling, regenerative chatter will decrease the machining accuracy, destabilize the micro-milling process, shorten the life of the micro-mill, and increase machining failures. Establishing a mathematical model of chatter vibration is ess...
In the fabrication process of thin-walled micro-parts, both micro-cutting tools and thin-walled micro-parts have the characteristics of small size and low stiffness. Therefore, the regenerative chatter during the machining process cannot be ignored....
In micro-milling, cutting forces generate non-negligible tool deflection, which has a significant influence on the machining process and on workpiece accuracy. This paper investigates the tool deflection during micro-milling and its effect on cutting...
Ultra-precision milling with an aerostatic high-speed spindle and a single-crystal diamond micro-tool is promising for the fabrication of miniaturized complex parts. While tool chatter occurring in milling processes has a substantial effect on the ma...
This paper presents the first try to fabricate degradable polylactic acid (PLA) biomedical stents with round edges by the multi-axis micro-milling process. Conventionally biomedical stents are produced by laser processing. Post-processing operations...
Thin-walled micro-structures are a critical component of micro-devices, and their precise manufacture has a direct impact on product performance. Micro-milling is an effective manufacturing method that enables the production of micro-thin-walled stru...
The superhydrophobic surface has a great advantage of self-cleaning, inhibiting bacterial adhesion, and enhancing anticoagulant properties in the field of biomedical materials. In this paper, a superhydrophobic surface was successfully prepared on ti...
This study evaluates the surface roughness of micromilled 316L stainless steel parts fabricated via fused filament fabrication (FFF) and sintering, establishing statistical links between additive manufacturing and post-machining parameters. The surfa...
Micro-milling is an emerging processing technology for machining micro- and high-precision three dimensional parts that require the use of various materials (with sizes ranging from tens of micrometers to a few millimeters) in the field of advanced m...
In this paper, plain aluminum was chosen as matrix alloy and graphene reinforced aluminum alloy composites was successfully prepared via powder metallurgy approach. Micro-milling experiments were conducted to explore the effect of varying graphene na...
Acoustic emission (AE) signals collected from different locations might provide various sensitivities to tool wear condition. Studies for tool wear monitoring using AE signals from sensors on workpieces has been reported in a number of papers. Howeve...
The rectangular microgroove surfaces have obvious anisotropy, which can control the movement of water droplets in parallel and vertical directions. Based on such a property, anisotropic functional surfaces are expected to have potential applications...
Downsized and complex micro-machining structures have to meet quality requirements concerning geometry and convince through increasing functionality. The development and use of cutting tools in the sub-millimeter range can meet these demands and cont...
The objective of the present work is to carry out analytical and finite element analysis for commonly used coating materials for micro-milling applications on high-speed steel substrate and evaluate the effects of different parameters. Four different...
This comprehensive study investigates the micro-milling of a Mg13Sn alloy, a material of considerable interest in various high-precision applications, such as biomedical implants. The main objective of the study was to explore the optimizations of va...
Micro-milling is increasingly recognized as a crucial technique for machining intricate and miniature 3D aerospace components, particularly those fabricated from difficult-to-cut Ti-6Al-4V alloys. However, its practical applications are hindered by s...
Catastrophic tool failure due to the low flexural stiffness of the micro-tool is a major concern for micromanufacturing industries. This issue can be addressed using high rotational speed, but the gyroscopic couple becomes prominent at high rotationa...
In order to improve the machining quality and reduce the dimensional errors of micro high-aspect-ratio straight thin walls, the on-line cutting parameter compensation device has been introduced and corresponding micromilling processes have been inves...
ZrO2 ceramics are currently used in a broad range of industrial applications. However, the machining of post-sintered ZrO2 ceramic is a difficult task, due to its high hardness and brittleness. In this study, micro-milling of ZrO2 with two kinds of d...
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