Sustainable Hard Machining

Sustainable Hard Machining: Implementation and Assessment analyzes the various methodologies of cooling and lubrication employed during hard machining operations, along with their potential contributions towards achieving sustainable machining. It includes the needs, challenges and trends towards sustainable hard machining of difficult-to-cut materials through the application of dry, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), cryogenic and nanofluid assisted MQL for environmental, economic, ecological and societal benefits, leading to environmentally cleaner sustainable machining.

Features:

• Provides an introduction to hard machining, sustainability and environmentally conscious machining
• Discusses dry and minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) based hard machining
• Includes computational methods and optimization in hard machining
• Reviews nano-cutting fluids in hard machining
• Explores cryogenic cooling in hard machining

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in mechanical engineering, manufacturing and materials science.