Milling Stability Prediction with Multiple Delays via the Extended Adams-Moulton-Based Method

Abstract

The occurrence of machining chatter may undermine the workpiece surface quality, accelerate the tool wear, and even result in serious damage to the machine tools. Consequently, it is of great importance to predict and eliminate the presence of such unstable and detrimental vibration. In this paper, we present an extended Adams-Moulton-based method for the stability prediction of milling processes with multiple delays. Taking the nonuniform pitch cutters or the tool runout into account, the regenerative chatter for milling operations can be formulated as delay differential equations with multiple delays. The dynamics model for milling regenerative chatter is rewritten in the state-space form. Dividing the spindle rotation period equally into small time intervals, the delay terms are approximated by Lagrange interpolation polynomials, and the Adams-Moulton method is adopted to construct the Floquet transition matrix. On this basis, the milling stability can be derived from the spectral radius of the transition matrix based on Floquet theory. The calculation efficiency and accuracy of the proposed algorithm are verified through making comparisons with the semidiscretization method (SDM) and the enhanced multistage homotopy perturbation method (EMHPM). The results show that the proposed method has both high computational efficiency and accuracy.