Thin Floor Milling Using Moving Support
Abstract During milling the thin floor of a pocket which locates on a monolithic structure, it is very difficult to achieve high accuracy and good surface quality due to its low rigidity. In this paper, a novel approach is proposed to overcome the difficulties that encountered during milling of the thin floor. The method is realized by using small axial depth of cut but placing a moving support at the back surface of the thin floor during machining, in which the support will move with the cutter at the same velocity. An experimental platform is built to demonstrate the validation of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the accuracy and surface quality during milling the thin floor of a pocket of the monolithic structure.