HIGH SPEED MILLING OF TITANIUM ALLOYS

Titanium alloys are on account of their unrivalled qualities wide spread in certain industries. Despite the growing demands, the machining technology of titanium has stagnated for the last 20 years. In this paper, the specific machining fundamentals of titanium as well as the main parts of the process chain are presented in a literature survey. The allegorised results and recommendations are origin for an industrial research project, which is currently conducted at the PTW.

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