Discusses state-of-the-art developments to manage flow stress and friction in mechanical processing and includes detailed information about recently developed coated tools, high speed machines, unusual work materials, and microprocessors.
Material behaviour, friction, wear and related phenomena can be studied both in actual manufacturing operations and in test set-ups, and mathematical relations thus derived, but doubts have arisen about the relationship of such extrapolations to actual industrial operations. The contributors to this book discuss the state of the art and new developments that deal with flow stress and friction in mechanical processing, such as cutting and forming of metals and other materials. Emphasis is given to friction and flow stress in actual industrial processes, modelling of friction and flow stress, testing under simulated conditions in order to model friction and flow stress in actual industrial processes, new possibilities to reduce friction and wear, and acquisitions of detailed information related to fundamental aspects of recent developments like the use of coated tools, high-speed machining, unusual work materials and microprocessing.