Finite Element Modeling of Mechanical Micromachining

Abstract

The knowledge about all these phenomena is necessary to fabricate microparts, satisfying required dimensional and geometrical tolerances and surface quality requirements. Therefore, developing predictive techniques to improve the quality of microparts has emerged as an important research area. Several approaches have been used to predict outputs of microcutting operations including analytical modeling, numerical techniques, molecular dynamics simulation, and experimental studies. As experimental studies are costly and time consuming and as they are only valid for the conditions and range of machining parameters used in the experiments, numerical methods are used as an alternative method to predict machining process outputs. © 2018 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.