Titanium alloys (Ti) are widely used in a number of industry sectors due to their outstanding
physical and mechanical properties. However, these properties result in high cutting forces …

Recently, mechanical micro-milling is one of the most promising micro-manufacturing
processes for productive and accurate complex-feature generation in various materials …

The three main pillars of sustainability are the society, the environment, and the economy
(people, planet, and profit). The key drivers that sustain these three pillars are energy and …

The metal cutting process is accompanied by complex stress field, strain field, temperature
field. The comprehensive effects of process parameters on chip morphology, cutting force …

Nowadays, coatings have been widely deposited on cutting tool inserts due to their superior
wear resistant and thermal barrier effect in metal manufacturing industry. Tool coatings avoid …

Achieving the reasonable tool life, surface quality, and residual stresses in the
micromachining of difficult-to-cut materials is still a challenge. Titanium alloys are notorious …

High entropy alloys (HEA) are widely used in high-strength tools, high-temperature molds,
and corrosion-resistant components. This work focused on tool wear and surface quality …

Advanced materials such as titanium alloys and metal matrix composites are extensively
used in the aerospace industry and biomedical engineering. They are difficult to machine …

The parts produced by additive manufacturing (AM) are not usually appropriate for direct
applications and require several post-processing operations. Micro-milling, as a most …

Finite element (FE) simulation of machining can be used as a replacement or a
supplementary to the physical experiment allowing an analysis to be performed at a lower …