Although almost any book and/or text on metal cutting, cutting tool design, and
manufacturing process discusses to a certain extent the tool geometry, the body of
knowledge on the subject is scattered andconfusing. Moreover, there is no clear
objective(s) set in the selection of the tool geometry parameters so that an answer
to a simple question about optimal tool geometry cannot be found in the literature
on the subject. This is because a criterion (criteria) of optimization is not clear, on
one hand, and because the role of cutting tool geometry in machining process
optimization has never been studied systematically, on the other. As a result, many
practical tool/process designers are forced to use extremely vague ranges of tool
geometry parameters provided by handbooks. Being at least 20+ years outdated,
these data do not account for any particularities of a machining operation including
a particular grade of tool material, the condition of the machine used, th