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Groove milling or slot milling is a machining operation where a milling cutter removes material on 180° of its circumference. The direction of feed is generally perpendicular to the rotational axis of the milling cutter. If the face of the tool has cutting edges along the whole radius (normally one cutting edge crosses the rotational axis of the cutter), the tool can be used for drilling operations and it is possible to machine pockets.
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Application
Groove milling is necessary for various applications. For a keyed joint, for example, it is necessary to produce keyseats, which are slots or pockets. Cooling fins may also be produced by groove milling.
In some cases the resulting dimensions and forms are very important; in other cases the resulting surface finish is more important. For economic reasons the results do not have to be as good as possible, but only as good as necessary. For achieving this, it is essential to...
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Klobasa, I. (2019). Groove Milling. In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6685
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