Fumihiro Itoigawa

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects and mechanisms in minimal quantity lubrication are investigated by use of an intermittent turning process and the difference between minimal quantity lathering and water lathering is inspected in detail to elucidate boundary film behaviour on the rake face.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on the normal load dependence of the friction coefficient for the sliding friction of a rubber material with a rough surface and developed a friction tester to visualize the real contact regions distributed within the transparent contact interface between poly-dimethyl siloxane (PDMS) and glass surfaces.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new cutting model for the machining of unidirectional CFRP laminates was developed to examine the mechanism for changes in the cutting forces with tool wear.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of friction-induced torque in sliding friction of rubber materials is investigated, and a friction tester is developed to monitor the friction force between a silicon rubber block and a surface made of PMMA.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors observed the tracks of debris particles scattered from the discharge point and bubble expansion and contraction in a single pulse discharge ignited in the parallel flat gap space in order to discuss the mechanism of material removal in electrical discharge machining.