Advanced Metal Cutting Technology and Tools

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of high-end equipment, difficult-to-cut materials with high strength and high hardness increasingly play an important role in the production of high load-bearing structural components. Additionally, the requirement for higher geometrical precision, better physical properties and a longer component service life has substantially increased. With that, the manufacturing industry faces the challenges of coordinating the geometrical state of machined surfaces with their physical and mechanical states, and, simultaneously, the difficulties of balancing machining quality and efficiency. Motivated by these challenges and difficulties, an increasing number of new cutting technologies are being developed. Due to the multidisciplinary characteristic of the machining process, the development of cutting technologies is enabled and accompanied by achievements in the domains of workpiece materials, tool materials, machine tools, processing conditions, fatigue and environments. In the end, these domains contribute to the improvement in the reliability and service performance of high-end equipment. This Special Issue is focused on the development and applications of new metal cutting technologies and tools.

Articles concerning difficult-to-cut materials and their machining, testing, multiscale modeling and prediction are welcomed. This is an excellent opportunity for metal cutting scientists and engineers all over the world to share their latest achievements. This Special Issue will cover, but is not limited to, the following fundamental and applied research topics:

• Difficult-to-machine materials;
• High-strength steels;
• Stainless steels;
• Superalloys;
• Titanium alloys;
• High-speed cutting;
• High-performance cutting;
• Hard machining;
• Dry machining;
• Ultrasonic-assisted cutting;
• Nano/micro/meso-cutting;
• Turning;
• Milling;
• Drilling;
• Grinding;
• Microtools;
• Advanced cutting tools;
• Cutting tool design;
• Cutting tool manufacture;
• Cutting fluids;
• Cutting simulation;
• Cutting dynamics;
• Surface integrity;
• Non-destructive testing;
• Multiscale modeling and prediction.

Dr. Zhiqiang Liang
Dr. Lijing Xie
Guest Editors

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