Metal Cutting And Tool Design

The second revised edition of the book fully covers Metal Cutting and Tool Design taught in undergraduate and post-graduate courses at different universities and institutes. The

basic principles required in understanding the subject are explained in detail and at the same time advanced topics in the subject are discussed with a number of illustrations and photographs. The prominent topics covered in this book include:

• Mechanics of metal cutting
• Study of cutting force
• Heat in metal cutting
• Tool wear, Tool failure, Tool life
• Tool materials
• Cutting fluids
• Economics of machining
• Cutting tool design-single point, drill, milling cutter, broach
• Cutting tool manufacturing
• Computer aided temperature and stress analysis in cutting tool
• Gear cutting tools
• Design of reamer
• Thread cutting tools

Dr B J Rangnath, Professor and Head, Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, National Institute of Engineering, Mysore is actively engaged for the past 34 years in teaching undergraduate/ postgraduate courses, research and development and industrial consultancy in the field of manufacturing engineering in general, and Metal Cutting and Tool Design in particular. In these areas he has published about 50 technical papers in reputed journals, and spoken at national and international conferences. He has guided many research projects. He has served in various academic bodies of many India universities. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Mysor University, he got his M.Tech in Production Engineering from Madras University and his Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, under the guidance of Dr V C Venkatesh, who is at present Professor at Tennessee Technological University, USA.