Non-conventional Machining Technologies for Advanced Materials
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Material Processing Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 3816
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ultrasonic machining technology; advanced manufacturing equipment; intelligent manufacturing system
Interests: intelligent (medical) robotics; intelligent manufacturing technology and equipment
Interests: precision and ultra-precision grinding; cutting of difficult-to-cut materials; design and fabrication of micro-tools and machine tools
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Dear Colleagues,
Advanced materials such as aerospace composites, advanced ceramics, glass, metallic alloys and others are broadly used in various high-tech industries including aerospace, automotive, defense, military, electronic, medical, marine and several others. High-tech industries demand excellent surface quality, high precision, and no microstructural damage to machined components owing to their classified applications. Various advanced materials have been considered difficult-to-machine materials due to their heterogeneous and special material properties and structures. Conventional machining technologies do not meet the requirements for machined components for their specific applications. Therefore, non-conventional machining technologies are preferred to overcome the challenges of conventional machining technologies, but their commercial usage is still very limited due to complexity of the advanced machining systems, specialized tools designs, advanced material properties and structural variations and high skills and expertise needed, as well as the limited availability of machine tools. Therefore, there is a special need to support the high-tech industries with state-of-the-art research and innovations to tackle the challenges in the flexible design and implementation of nonconventional machining for several advanced material processing.
This Special Issue will be devoted to state-of-the-art research on the various aspects of nonconventional machining technologies for advanced material applications such as optimum designs of non-conventional machining systems, specialized cutting tool designs, integration of machining systems, non-conventional machine tool precision measurements and calibrations, cutting tool wear, machining efficiency improvements, machining cost reductions, non-conventional machining simulation model development, and development of automatic non-conventional machining systems, etc.
We seek submissions with original perspectives and advanced thinking on the theme addressed. Original research on theories, simulations, designs, experiments, and technical issues of nonconventional machining technologies for advanced materials applications is welcome.
Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Machining properties of advanced materials (aerospace composites, advanced ceramics, glass, metallic alloys and others);
- FE Cutting simulations of advanced materials;
- Design of specialized cutting tools of non-conventional machining processes;
- Design and development of various non-conventional machining technologies;
- Cutting tool wear;
- Precision and calibrations of machine tools;
- Machining efficiency improvements;
- Flexible non-conventional machining technologies;
- Machining mechanisms;
- Surface morphological characteristics.
Dr. Jianfu Zhang
Prof. Dr. Qinjian Zhang
Dr. Zhiqiang Liang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced materials
- cutting simulations
- non-conventional machining technologies
- machine tools
- machining mechanisms
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