High-Productivity Drilling Tools: Design and Geometry

This completely updated volume covers the design, manufacturing, and inspection of high-productivity drilling tools (HPDT) and addresses common issues with drilling system components. It discards old notions and beliefs as it introduces scientifically and technically sound concepts and rules with detailed explanations and multiple practical examples.

High-Productivity Drilling Tools: Design and Geometry introduces the development of the concept of high-productivity (HP) drill design and its manufacturing and application features. This book continues to develop the concept of a drilling system in the new edition and includes new practical examples. It explains how to properly design and manufacture drilling tools for a specific application and includes a detailed explanation of the design features, tool manufacturing and implementation practices, metrology of drilling and drilling tools, and the tool failure analysis. Using the coherency law as the guidelines introduced in the first edition, the new edition shows how to formulate the requirements for the components of the drilling system, pointing out that the drilling tool is the key component to be improved.

This practical book should be on the shelves of all industrial engineers, those working in production and manufacturing, process designers, tool material designers, cutting tool designers, and quality specialists. Researchers, senior undergraduate students, and graduate students will also find this book full of very helpful reference information.

Viktor P. Astakhov earned his PhD in mechanical engineering from Tula State Polytechnic University, Tula-Moscow, Russia, in 1983. He was awarded a DSc designation (Dr. habil., Docteur d’État) and the title ＂State Professor of Ukraine＂ in 1991 for the outstanding service rendered during his teaching career and for the profound impact his work had on science and technology. An internationally recognized educator, researcher, and mechanical engineer, he has won a number of national and international awards for his teaching and research. In 2011, he was elected to the SME College of Fellows.

Besides his teaching engagements, Dr. Astakhov currently serves as the tool research and application manager of Production Service Management Co. which is a part of EVIE Group of companies, a large international tool management company that provides tooling service to many industries as the automotive, aerospace, power, medical and others. He has published monographs and textbooks, book chapters, and many papers in professional journals as well as in trade periodicals. He has authored the following books: Drills: Science and Technology of Advanced Operations, Metal Working Fluids: Fundamentals and Recent Advances, Geometry of Single-Point Turning Tools and Drills: Fundamentals and Practical Applications, Tribology of Metal Cutting, Physics of Strength and Fracture Control, and Mechanics of Metal Cutting. He also serves as the editor in chief, associate editor, board member, reviewer, and advisor for many international journals and professional societies.