ABSTRACT

Since the first approaches in the early 1970s (Okushima; Kakino, 1971; Tay; Stevenson; Davis, 1974), the Finite Element Modeling (FEM) of the cutting process has evolved toward the implementation of more realistic and complex phenomena in the cutting models like elasto-viscoplastic material behavior (Llanos et al., 2009). However, in that time, precision simulations were not possible due to the scarse resources and high errors caused by simplifications of analitical models. Therefore, with the advent of computers the number of researches on this type of simulation has increased significantly.