Traditional Machining Technology (2^nd Ed.)

Traditional Machining Technology describes the fundamentals, basic elements, and operations of general-purpose metal cutting and abrasive machine tools used for the production and grinding of cylindrical and flat surfaces by turning, drilling, and reaming; shaping and planing; and milling processes.

Special-purpose machines and operations used for thread cutting, gear cutting, and broaching processes are included along with semiautomatic, automatic, NC, and CNC machine tools; operations, tooling, mechanisms, accessories, jigs and fixtures, and machine-tool dynamometry are discussed. The treatment throughout the book is aimed at motivating and challenging the reader to explore technologies and economically viable solutions regarding the optimum selection of machining operations for a given task.

This book will be useful to professionals, students, and companies in the industrial, manufacturing, mechanical, materials, and production engineering fields.

Chapter 1 Machining Technology Chapter 2 Basic Elements and Mechanisms of Machine Tools Chapter 3 General-Purpose Metal-Cutting Machine Tools Chapter 4 General-Purpose Abrasive Machine Tools Chapter 5 Thread-Cutting Machines and Operations Chapter 6 Gear-Cutting Machines and Operations Chapter 7 Turret and Capstan Lathes Chapter 8 Automated Lathes Chapter 9 Numerical Control and Computer Numerical Control Chapter 10 Automated Manufacturing Systems Chapter 11 Machine-Tool Dynamometers

Helmi Youssef, born in August, 1938 in Alexandria, Egypt, has acquired his B.Sc. degree with honor in Production Engineering from Alexandria University in 1960. He completed then his scientific building in the Carolo-Welhelmina, TH Braunschweig in Germany during the period 1961-1967. In June 1964 he acquired his Dipl.-Ing. degree, then in December 1967, he completed his Dr.-Ing. degree in the domain of Non-traditional Machining. In 1968, he has returned to Alexandria University, Production Engineering Dept. as an assistant professor. In 1973 he has been promoted to associate, and in 1978 to full Professor. In the period 1995-1998, Professor Youssef was the chairman of the Production Engineering Dept., Alexandria University. Since 1989, he was a member of the scientific committee for promotion of professors in Egyptian universities.

Based on several research and educational laboratories, which he has built, Professor Youssef founded his own scientific school in both Traditional and Non-traditional Machining Technologies. On early 1970s, he established the first NTM-research laboratory in Alexandria University, and may be in the whole region. Since that time, he carried out intensive research in his fields of specialization, and supervised many Ph.D. and M. Sc. theses.

Between 1975 and 1998, Professor Youssef was a visiting Professor in Arabic universities, such as El-Fateh University in Tripoli, the Technical University in Baghdad, King Saud University (KSU) in Riyadh, and Beirut Arab University (BAU) in Beirut. Beside his teaching activities in these universities, he established laboratories, and supervised many M.Sc. theses. Moreover, he was a visiting professor in different academic institutions in Egypt and abroad. During 1982, he was a visiting Professor in the University of Rostock, Germany, and during the years 1997 – 1998 he was a visiting Professor in the University of Bremen, Germany.

Professor Youssef has organized