TABLE OF CONTENTS Rough Milling of Titanium alloys, Finish Milling of Titanium alloys, Maintaining Large Part Accuracy, Milling Difficult Features, and Warpage.
Here we get to the core of this book making chips in the most efficient manner possible. I see lean studies as primarily focused on minimizing the non-value-added portions of a process. These chapters work on the value-added portions of the process. The first two chapters in this group are presented in the normal sequence of milling operations: Chapter 6: Rough Milling of Titanium Alloys, then Chapter 7: Finish Milling of Titanium Alloys.
Problem milling areas that seemed important enough to warrant their own chapters are then presented in Chapters 8 10. Chapter 8: Maintaining Large Part Accuracy discusses the problems of maintaining large part accuracy in the face of temperature changes, and includes a section on my prediction that drill fixtures are essentially obsolete for large parts. Chapter 9: Milling Difficult Features covers milling of thin webs without the need for support tooling and gives parameters of how to machine a specific rough surface finish. Chapter 10 Warpage covers the problems of warpage and distortion along with some thoughts on straightening parts, but most importantly this chapter discusses measures you can take to prevent warpage and distortion.
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