1. Tool Stiffness & Displacement Calculations
By: Roger Cortesi
Precision Engineering Research Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Department
Phone: (617)
Fax: (617)
Room 3-470
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139

2. Tool Cutting Force Estimates

3. Cutting Force Calculations
For P, h, and w listed on the previous slide

4. Tool Deflection Calculation

5. Tool Deflection Plot

6. A FEA Check of the Inertia Estimate
This FEA indicates that the tool has about 33% the cross sectional inertia of a solid rod the same diameter