Abstract: Service loads of machine-tool dynamometers are usually reduced to a system of three mutually orthogonal force components through a fixed reference point. Three additional components (moments) ...

Abstract: The effect of tool-life scatter on the uncertainty of parameters of a typical tool-life model is analyzed using the joint confidence region approach. Some apparent contradictions concerning ...

Abstract: A simple machining operation is modeled according to some management choices by stochastic simulation, taking into account two main tool failure mechanisms. Under the assumption that premature ...

Abstract: The joint distributions of economic parameters corresponding to “optimum” conditions (minimum cost, and maximum production rate), as affected by a single tool wear mechanism, are analyzed and the ...

Abstract: Under production conditions cutting tools often fail under several failure modes, the occurrence of a single one only for a given operation being rather exceptional. In light of this observation ...

Abstract: This paper discusses shape-finding for cable nets and fabric structures through the use of nonlinear structural analysis computer programs rather than specialized “black box” software. Methods for shape-finding of membranes ...

Abstract: Logic foundations expounded in Part 1 are applied to development of a mathematical model describing profile generation in face milling. A pattern recognition procedure is developed, capable of ...

Abstract: In some machining operations tools may fail suddenly in a catastrophic way. Multi-tool setups, where several tools are engaged simultaneously and a single tool failure may impair the whole ...

Abstract: A method developed for the attainment of economic objectives in single-tool machining operations is extended to multi-tool machining. The stochastic nature of tool life is taken into account, ...