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Mechanical Micro-machining

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As a result of the current trend toward products miniaturization, there is a demand for development in micro-manufacturing technologies in order to have better quality products, and cheaper, more efficient, and effective processes. Miniaturized products and components in the range from a few hundred micrometers to a few micrometers size are becoming common and widely used in daily human life. The micro-products and micro-components are used in many industries especially related with micro-electromechanical, aerospace, medical, environment, biomedical and biochemical industries, and also in the field of chemistry. Many manufacturing methods have been developed to produce these micro-sized products, namely micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) based processes such as dry etching, lithography, electroplating, ultraviolet - lithographie galvanoformung abformung (UV-LiGA), non-conventional based micro-machining such as micro- electron discharge machining (EDM), and mechanical micro-machining. This chapter discusses mechanical micro-machining especially challenges related with this process. Some main challenges are discussed in this chapter such as size effect, microstructures of the materials, surface quality, burr formation, and micro-tools performance. Some solutions are offered in order to solve these challenges.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore, Singapore

    Kushendarsyah Saptaji

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    Andrew Y. C. Nee

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Saptaji, K. (2015). Mechanical Micro-machining. In: Nee, A. (eds) Handbook of Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4670-4_12

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