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Machinability and Machining of Titanium Alloys: A Review

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Machining of Titanium Alloys

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This chapter reviews the main difficulties impairing the machinability of titanium alloys. The overview of machinability of titanium alloys is presented with respect to the following performance criteria: cutting tool wear/tool life, cutting forces, chip formation, and surface integrity attributes, mainly surface roughness. Thereafter, the effects of various lubrication and cooling methods in machining titanium alloys is also discussed. Furthermore, a case study on the metallic particle emission when machining Ti-6A1-4V is also presented.

An erratum to this chapter is available at DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-43902-9_7

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