Investigation on the Elemental Chip Formation Process in Hard-to-Machine Material Cutting

The mechanism of discontinuous chip formation has been studied less than the mechanism of continuous chip formation. However, when most modern materials having specific physical and mechanical properties are subject to machining, such processes are featured by discontinuous chip formation. The paper describes the basic dependencies of discontinuous chip parameters on machining modes. This is a trial undertaken to introduce an explanation of how the basic factors of the cutting process influence over parameters of chip formation.