...Sheng Li; Xinhua Yao; Jianzhong Fu Purpose – For using wireless sensors to monitor spindle units without opening the spindle shell to replace the battery, harvesting the waste heat from spindle units of machine tools for thermoelectric generation to drive wireless sensors is studied in this paper...

... and presence or absence of cutting fluid; 2. factors relating to the cutting tool, such as tool wear, tool geometry, tool material and built‐up‐edge formation; 3. factors relating to cutting geometry, such as rake angle, feed angle, relief angle, etc.; and 4. factors relating to machine tool...

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