Investigation of cutting force oscillations when high productivity milling

Abstract

The article analyzes cutting force oscillations of high-productivity milling. Based on end-milling experiments using a milling machine tool, characteristics of spatial oscillations of cutting forces were identified. The data analysis using software and oscillation theory methods showed that at high spindle rotation frequencies under certain milling conditions, interaction of the cutting edges and the workpiece is not uniform which deteriorates the machined surface. As the spindle rotation frequency increases due to resonances in the tool and spindle and mutual oscillations of the workpiece and the tool, the cutting force spectrum varies. Some extra harmonic components appear. They index the failure of interaction of the cutting edges and the workpiece.