Brochure on machining of copper and copper alloys reissued
The Copper Association has reissued an updated version of the technical brochure "Guideline values for the machining of copper and copper alloys". The publication contains guideline values for machining for a wide range of copper alloys for all relevant manufacturing processes.
Like its predecessors, the Copper Association's revised brochure "Guideline values for the machining of copper and copper alloys" is essentially aimed at the practitioner and can now be downloaded free of charge from the association's website kupfer.de. The aim of the brochure is to help the user to solve machining tasks as productively and economically as possible. It is also intended to help designers and development engineers compare different materials in terms of their machinability and thus estimate the corresponding manufacturing costs for a component.
For this purpose, a machinability index has been added to the table. This is already widely used in the literature and provides an initial comparison of copper materials with each other and a comparison with other metallic materials such as steel or aluminum. In addition, the tables with the material standards have been updated and the guide value tables for the individual manufacturing processes have been revised and supplemented.