Advanced Cutting Materials for Milling of Nickel-Based Alloys

What impact do advanced cutting materials have onto the machining of nickel-based alloys?
Challenge and Motivation
- Advanced cutting materials like Ceramic and CBN offer advantageous productivity in hard-to-cut materials such as nickel-based alloys.
- The resulting surface integrity of the workpiece after finishing with advanced cutting tools and progressive cutting parameters is insufficiently investigated.
Objective
- Benchmark of achieved productivity in blade manufacturing (state-of-the-art vs. advanced cutting material).
- Evaluation of resulting surface integrity and economic evaluation for both processes.