Machining is indispensable in the manufacturing sector for a wide variety of products.
In the last years, the field of micro- and nano-scale manufacturing attracted a lot
of interest, especially in high-end industries such as the biomedical and electronics
industries. In order to improve the efficiency of these processes and understand the
various underlying phenomena, it is important to develop relevant theoretical models.
However, methods such as the Finite Element Method (FEM), which are well-established
in the macro- or micro-scale level are not appropriate for creating models of nano-scale
processes, as they treat the materials as continua. For that reason, the Molecular
Dynamics (MD) method is usually used for simulations of nano-metric machining processes
such as nano-milling. In the present study, a MD model of nano-milling is created
and an investigation regarding the effect of cutting conditions such as feed rate
and cutting speed on cutting forces, temperature and subsurface damage is conducted.
