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Advanced Mechanical Cutting Process

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Advanced Noncontact Cutting and Joining Technologies

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The need of advanced materials required in the modern-day technology and the demand of miniaturisation from different kinds of engineering applications have led to the development of cutting processes that are able to offset the limitations encountered in the conventional manufacturing processes. Advanced mechanical cutting processes such as waterjet machining, abrasive waterjet machining and ultrasonic machining are important advanced machining processes that are contactless and tool-less processes used to cut advanced materials and in micromachining where the conventional machining process becomes prohibitive. These advanced mechanical cutting processes are analysed in this chapter. The working principles of these cutting processes are described with the advantages, disadvantages and areas of application presented. Some of the research works in this field are also presented in this chapter.

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This work was supported by the University of Johannesburg research council (URC) and University of Ilorin.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus, Auckland Park, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Rasheedat Modupe Mahamood & Esther Titilayo Akinlabi

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

    Rasheedat Modupe Mahamood

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Mahamood, R.M., Akinlabi, E.T. (2018). Advanced Mechanical Cutting Process. In: Advanced Noncontact Cutting and Joining Technologies. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75118-4_5

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