WSEAS Transactions on Applied and Theoretical Mechanics
Print ISSN: 1991-8747, E-ISSN: 2224-3429
Volume 8, 2013
Generation of Machined Multiple Flat Surfaces on Circular Bar by its Rotation and in Synchronism with Cutting Tool
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Abstract: The operation of machining by lathe is one of the most common operations in automobile and machinery industries. The process is able to generate cylindrical bars under a wider variety of diameters / staggerings and using different materials, metallic’s or non-metallic’s (cupper, wood, aluminum, brass, steel, etc…). However, when more complex geometries are required, additional machines are used, like milling machine and/or machines under numerical control (CNC) and multiple axles. The possibility of joining circles, polygons, angular motion and synchronism, open the mind to multiple figures (shapes) and movements, which can generate different geometries. This paper aims to demonstrate that both operations (turning and milling), can be made at the same time and at the same machine, special but simpler lathe. The studies of geometry, associated with calculus (trigonometry) and angular motion give basis and sustain this statement. Tests in bench materialize the idea and reinforce this thesis.