Preface

1 Tribology of cutting tools

1.1 What is the tribology of cutting tools?

1.1.1 Tribology of metal cutting

1.1.2 Tribology of cutting tools

1.1.3 Importance of the subject

1.1.4 Why now?

1.2 Underlying principle

1.3 Tribological interfaces: tool-chip interface

1.3.1 Geometry of tool-chip interface

1.3.2 Summary of tribological conditions at the tool chip interface

1.3.3 System consideration

1.3.4 Stress distribution and mean

1.3.5 Temperature

1.3.5.1 Known facts

1.3.5.2 Contradiction

1.3.5.3 Moving chip - the governing equation

1.3.5.4 Summary of temperature consideration

1.3.5.5 Optimal cutting temperature law

1.3.6 Issues to be addressed

1.3.6.1 FEM modeling of contact stress distributions

1.3.6.2 Particularities of stress distribution on the restricted tool-chip contact lenght

1.3.6.3 Influence of cutting speed

1.4 Tribological interfaces: tool-workpiece interface

1.5 Tool wear

1.6 Improvements of tribological conditions of cutting tools

1.6.1 Grades of tool materials

1.6.1.1 Basic properties of tool materials

1.6.1.2 Selection of application specific grade of HSS

1.6.2 Application of the metal working fluid (MWF) through the cutting tool

References

2 Tribology of machining

2.1 Friction interactions in machining

2.2 Cutting, ploughing and sliding interactions (after Jackson and Morrel, 2011)

2.2.1 Static friction and stick-slip phenomena

2.2.2 Sliding friction

2.2.2.1 Models for sliding friction

2.2.3 Friction heating

2.3 Lubrication to control friction in machining (after Jackson and Morrel, 2011)

2.3.1 Liquid lubrification

References

3 Tribology in metal forming processes

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Friction

3.3 Lubrication

3.4 Wear

3.5 Conclusion

References

4 Tribology in hot rolling steel strip

4.1 Introduction

About the Author: J. Paulo Davim received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto in 1997 and the Aggregation from the University of Coimbra in 2005. Between 1986/96, he was lecturer in University of Porto. Currently, he is an Aggregate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro and the Head of MACTRIB - Machining and Tribology Research Group http: //www2.mec.ua.pt/machining . He has more 24 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials and mechanical engineering with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He is the Editor in Chief of six international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 15 international journals and acts as reviewer for than 50 prestigious ISI web Science journals. In addition, he has also published as author and co-author more than 30 book chapters and 300 articles in journals and conferences (more 150 articles in ISI Web Science, h-index 17).