Metal Cutting Principles

This graduate engineering textbook analyzes the two-dimensional cutting process used to produce mechanical components, relates general physics and tribology to tool wear and cutting temperatures, and describes representative three-dimensional cutting operations, namely milling and drilling. The second edition adds five chapters on modeling of chip formation, wavy chips, sawtooth chips, precision engineering, non-cutting applications. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Milton C. Shaw is Professor Emeritus of Engineering at Arizona State University. Throughout his career he has worked as a consultant to more than one hundred industrial companies and universities in the U.S. and abroad. During WWII, he was in charge of the Materials Division of NASA in Cleveland. Following the war, he served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and later as Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Carnagie Mellon University. In 1978, he joined Arizona State University. Professor Shaw has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati and Honorary Doctorates from Drexel University in Philadelphia and Louvain University in Belgium. He is a member of a number of engineering societies around the world, including the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Science.