Predictive modeling of chatter stability considering force-induced deformation effect in milling thin-walled parts

Abstract Force-induced deformation is an inevitable phenomenon in thin-wall milling operations, which makes the actual radial depth of cut deviate from its nominal value and changes tool-part engagement angle boundaries. This paper presents an accurate modeling of dynamic milling system with the force-induced deformation effect. Both the thin-walled part and the cutter are discretized into differential elements, such that the influences of the force-induced deformation and multi-point contact structure dynamics can be simultaneously considered at the contact zones. A detail flexible iteration strategy is first presented to calculate the force-induced deformation and the resulting tool-part engagement angle boundaries. After that, time-varying multi-modal dynamic parameters with actual material removal effect are obtained by simultaneously modifying structural static and dynamic stiffness at each tool feed position. The system involving regenerative dynamic displacements is formulated as a matrix of time-periodic delay differential equation. Chatter stability of the system is predicted by an extended second order semi-discretization method. Milling experiments are conducted to validate the proposed approach, and two types of parts with different wall thickness are designed. The results show that chatter can be well predicted by using the proposed approach.

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