Surface roughness prediction of thin-walled parts impacted by radial depth of cut variations during peripheral milling process

During the peripheral milling process, great transverse displacement vibrations of the thin-walled part are occurred under the acting of milling tool edge forcesdue to their low dynamic rigidity and the radial depth of cut ae variations. In this work, the main surface roughness parameters are evaluated for stable milling process conditions through maximum radial displacements determined by a theoretical method and a finite element (FE) computation utilizing numerical simulations. The cutting tooth edge forces are calculated along the effective part for each tooth tool engaged into part material in discrete spatial and time steps using flat-end mills. Finally, the radial displacements are confronted, which are close in magnitude and in profile shape trend. Therefore, the generated cutting tooth edge forces showed gradual stabilities while changing the parameter ae from 05 mm to 0.75 mm, respectively. Then, the parameters Ra and Rq contribute more to these stabilities than Rv.