Materials in Machining

The meeting point for:

• Industially beneficial R&D; ”Research on demand”.
• Research scope: The properties of the work piece material, and their link to the wear of the cutting tool and to the chip formation.
• The industrial top level competence in metal cutting research, represented by steel manufacturers, tool makers and the manufacturing industry.
• Dynamic, responsive and efficient R&D, with experienced personnel.
• Member programme projects, open or confidential.
• Contract work R&D projects, fully confidential.
• A network where metal cutting research is integrated with metallography, alloy design and processes in steel making, fatigue and mechanical strength of manufactured components, FEM-modelling of material flow, NDT-methods, among others…
• Semestrial meetings, networking and workshops.
• Entrance to international networks and R&D projects funded by EU.

• Notch wear and work hardening in machining of duplex stainless steels.
• Wear of cutting tools in turning of quench and tempering steels.
• Thread tapping of high alloyed materials - a tool wear study.
• Tool wear in milling of pre-hardened tool steels.
• Modelling of tool wear in punching of Ultra High Strength Steels. 
   
• XPRES - Strategic Research Area;  co-operation Royal Insitute of Technology (KTH) - Swerea - Mälardalen University
   
• PROMACH (EU)
• CHARMA (EU)