Sustainable Advancements and Modeling in Machinability of Difficult-to-Cut Composites and Alloys

Dear Colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the modern manufacturing sector to seek advancements in machining processes with exceptional product quality, precise tolerances, and eco-friendly manufacturing. As mineral-based emulsion cooling is common practice in the industry to machine difficult-to-cut materials, design and machining using a complicated geometry, the rapidly growing material science, and the efficient cutting of difficult-to-cut aerospace alloys raise the need to develop and implement new sustainable technology solutions for efficient machining with fewer operator health complexities.

With an increased scientific interest in understanding in-depth process mechanisms, research is moving toward numerical modeling, predictive modeling, simulations, experimental studies, new hybrid lubricoolants, heat transfer in machining under sustainable cooling and lubrication, carbon footprints, energy consumption, and machine shop health grades. Multiphysics and multidisciplinary modeling are powerful tools in the efforts to enhance existing machining processes, as well as to develop novel technologies. As they are more widely used by the aerospace industry today, research must be dedicated not only due to their academic importance but also their possible economic benefit.

This Special Issue invites researchers to present recent advances and technologies developed for sustainable machining, modern cooling technologies, lubricoolants with superior heat transfer, FEM, and CFD, indicating future trends for machining processes.

Dr. Muhammad Jamil
Prof. Dr. Aqib Mashood Khan
Dr. Rashid Ali Laghari
Prof. Dr. Ning He
Guest Editors

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• sustainable manufacturing
• sustainable coolants/lubricants
• surface integrity
• energy-efficient manufacturing
• computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• finite element analysis (FEM)
• mathematical modeling
• cutting simulations
• hybrid lubricooling
• heat transfer
• difficult-to-cut composites materials
• aerospace alloys