Experimental study of thin wall milling chatter stability nonlinear criterion

The nonlinear dynamic behavior of milling process has been accompanied by the entire cutting process. In. order to accurately determine and predict chatter stability of machining process, this article studied at both ends of the fixed thin part nonlinear criterion of milling chatter stability with experimental method. The experiment takes the vibration signal of thin part as the study object. And it analyses the vibration signal of different processing parameters based on the phase plane method, Poincare method and spectral analysis. Then, the relationship between the maximum Lyapunov exponent and the spindle speed and milling depth changes is discussed. Finally, taking the largest Lyapunov exponent as the criterion, the study determines the chatter stability domain of milling by using contour method. The comparative analysis is based on the milling chatter stability domain which obtained from the full discrete method. The experiments obtained the nonlinear stability criterion of aviation aluminium alloy 7075-T6 thin part. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.