Machining and Machine-tools

The third book in the Woodhead Publishing Reviews: Mechanical Engineering Series publishing high quality articles (full research articles, review articles and cases studies) with a special emphasis on research and development in machining and machine-tools. Machining and machine tools is an important subject with application in several industries. Parts manufactured by other processes often require further operations before the product is ready for application. Traditional machining is the broad term used to describe removal of material from a workpiece, and covers chip formation operations including: turning, milling, drilling and grinding. Recently the industrial utilization of non traditional machining processes such as EDM (electrical discharge machining), LBM (laser-beam machining), AWJM (abrasive water jet machining) and USM (ultrasonic machining) has increased. The performance characteristics of machine tools and the significant development of existing and new processes, and machines, are considered. Nowadays, in Europe, USA, Japan and countries of emergent economies machine tools is a sector with great technological evolution