Research and Development of Ultrasonic CNC Cutting Path Generation System for Nomex Composite Materials

Abstract:

There are a number of problems with the traditional way of machining Nomex composite materials, Ultrasonic vibration cutting as a new method can overcome most of the problems. This paper presents the machining process characteristics of ultrasonic cutting honeycomb structures of Nomex composite materials using two kinds of specials tools, and has a research on Ultrasonic machining tools posture control strategy, then proposed calculation method of generating the cutter location date. The main system was developed to meet the automatic generation cutting path of Nomex composite materials based on VS2008 and UG commercial software. The result of experiment shows this system can automatic generate rational machining path and correct NC date.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 941-944)
• Pages: 1968-1972
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.941-944.1968
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: En Liu*, Xiao Ping Hu, Bao Hua Yu
• Keywords: Honeycomb Structures, Nomex Composite Materials, UG Secondary Development, Ultrasonic Cutting

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