J. Paulo Davim 
Machinability of Advanced Materials 

Machinability of Advanced Materials addresses the level of
difficulty involved in machining a material, or multiple materials,
with the appropriate tooling and cutting parameters. A
variety of factors determine a material’s machinability,
including tool life rate, cutting forces and power consumption,
surface integrity, limiting rate of metal removal, and chip shape.
These topics, among others, and multiple examples comprise this
research resource for engineering students, academics, and
practitioners.

Table of Content

Preface ix

Chapter 1. Machinability: Existing and Advanced Concepts 1

Viktor P. Astakhov

Chapter 2. Milling Burr Formation and Avoidance 57

Seyed A. Niknam, Walery Wygowski, Marek Balazinksi and Victor
Songmene

Chapter 3. Machinability of Titanium and Its Alloys 95

Ali Hosseini, Hossam A. Kishawy and Hussein M. Hussein

Chapter 4. Effects of Alloying Elements on the Machinability of
Near-Eutectic Al-Si Casting Alloys 119

Yasser Zedan, Saleh A. Alkahtani and Fawzy H. Samuel
5. The Machinability of Hard Materials – A Review 145

Paulo Campos, J. Paulo Davim, J. Roberto Ferreira, A. Paulo
Paiva and P. Paulo Balestrassi

Chapter 6. An Investigation of Ductile Regime Machining of
Silicon Nitride Ceramics 175

Vijayan Krishnaraj and S. Senthil Kumar

List of Authors 229

Index 233

About the author

J. Paulo Davim is Aggregate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, in Portugal. He is also the Head of the Machining and Tribology Research Group (MACTRIB). He is Editor in Chief of six international journals, as well as being a guest editor of journals, a book editor, a book series editor and the scientific advisory for many international journals and conferences. In addition, he has authored and co-authored more than 40 book chapters and 350 articles in journals and conferences (h-index 30+).