Using the Flat-End Mill in the Strip Width Machining

Surface machining has become a difficult problem in aviation manufacturing, we always using ball-end mills, it is easy to determine the tool position in five-axis machining, but because of the large program, low material remove rate, the processing cycle long, and the surface accuracy is also poor. The paper suggests using the flat-end mill to strip width machining. Using this way, the CNC program is shorter, surface quality is better, the most import is reducing the machining time obviously. Now this method only used in the simple surface, so it requires further research.