Cutting operations using blades appear in several different industries such as food processing, surgical operations, gardening equipment, and so forth. As our society continues to increase our technological prowess, there is an ongoing need to better understand the underlying causes of simple tasks such as cutting so that cutting operations...
To make low grade lumber into high-valued products, finger-jointing is a widely
used method in the timber industry. In certain situations, chip-out occurs degrading the
quality of the joint. To better understand the machining process, a beam-type
dynamometer based on strain gages was designed to analyze the dynamic cutting forces...
Improvement of manufacturing productivity is dependent on the successful
automation of manufacturing processes, the success of which is based in turn upon
the availability of information which describes the state of manufacturing operations.
Acoustic Emission (AE) signals related to the cutting process and tool wear have
been recently applied to...