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Titanium alloy is a difficult-to-cut material, widely used due to its excellent material and mechanical properties. In this paper, the cutting mechanisms of titanium alloy Ti6Al4V under up-milling and down-milling with different cutting conditions have been theoretically and experimentally discussed. The milling processes were simulated by an orthogonal cutting finite element model. And a series of milling experiments were carried out to verify the simulated results. Significantly, it elaborates the prominent differences of cutting mechanisms of titanium alloy between up-milling and down-milling.
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Wu, H., Zhang, S. Effects of cutting conditions on the milling process of titanium alloy Ti6Al4V. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 77, 2235–2240 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-014-6645-2
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