Abstract: Chatter vibrations result in reduced productivity, poor surface finish and decreased cutting tool life. Milling cutters with nonconstant pitch angles can be very effective in improving stability ...

Abstract: Chatter stability in milling can be improved significantly using variable pitch cutters. The pitch angles can be optimized for certain chatter frequency and spindle speed ranges using the ...

Abstract: The general formulation for the milling chatter prediction developed in Part I of the paper is applied to common milling systems. Three cases are considered: a workpiece with single-degree-of-freedom, ...

Abstract: A new analytical method of chatter stability prediction in milling is presented. A general formulation for the dynamic milling system is developed by modeling the cutter and workpiece as ...

Abstract: Although process damping has a strong effect on cutting dynamics and stability, it has been mostly ignored in chatter analysis as there is no practical model for estimation of the damping ...

Abstract: An analytical prediction of stability lobes for milling cutters with variable pitch angles is presented. The method requires cutting constants, number of teeth, and transfer function of cutter ...

Abstract: The mechanistic and unified mechanics of cutting approaches to the prediction of forces in milling operations are briefly described and compared. The mechanistic approach is shown to depend on ...

Abstract: The paper presents an analytical method to predict stability lobes in ball end milling. Analytical expressions are based on the dynamics of ball end milling with regeneration in the uncut chip ...