Thin-Films for Machining Difficult-to-Cut Materials Challenges, Applications, and Future Prospects Advanced Materials Processing and Manufacturing Series

This book presents a balanced blend of fundamental research such as principles and characteristics of machining of difficult-to-cut materials and coating techniques and in-depth practical information on coatings techniques and classifications, the effect of coating parameters on machining responses, and finite element analysis of the machining performance of coated tools. In addition to the benefits of the thin-film deposition on the cutting tools, the limitations of the coating deposition techniques and the coating properties are also discussed.

Features:

• Associates the application of coating technology for improving machining characteristics of difficult-to-cut materials
• Elaborates effect of coating architecture on the output machining parameters
• Explores the performance of coated cutting tools
• Discusses advanced coating systems and their application
• Includes industrial case studies and practical implementations where coatings were applied for the machining of difficult-to-cut materials

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in thin-films, coatings, machining, materials engineering, and manufacturing.

1. Introduction to machining 2. Effect of coatings on machining parameters 3. Coatings technologies 4. Classification of coatings 5. Application of coatings for machining 6. Effect of coatings on machining parameters 7. Significance of finite element analysis in analyzing performance of coated cutting tools 8. Conclusions

Ch Sateesh Kumar completed his PhD at the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India. He worked as Visiting Assistant Professor at the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India. Later he joined the Advanced Materials Group at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic as Postdoctoral Researcher. Presently he is working as a Senior Researcher at the Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Centre, Bilbao, Spain in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science, India. Also, he is working as a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Technology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include machining, surface modification techniques, coating deposition and characterization, and tribology. He has published 21 research articles in highly reputed journals and also presented his work at seven renowned conferences. As per Google Scholar, his h-index and i10-index are 10. He has also extended his services as a reviewer in many reputed journals.

Filipe Daniel Fernandes is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering at the Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal. In parallel, he integrated the body researcher group of IPN – Instituto Pedro Nunes, where he collaborated in the planning, preparation, and submission of project proposals to different funding entities. He is also a collaborator at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In 2017 he was awarded a postdoc grant from FCT (SFRH/BPD/116334/2016) having as host institution the University of Minho, Portugal, where he improved the machinability of Ti alloys through the development of novel physical vapor deposition (PVD) films. He was placed in first place among 68 candidates. His work was recognized at the International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (Early Career Award 2018), perhaps the most known international conference on