... average values recorded in the table. In contrast, the temperatures that a tool mustwithstand do depend on cutting speed and feed and rake angle, and on the work material’s96 Work and tool materialsFig. ... carbides and cermets, high speed steels, ceramics based on alumina and silicon nitride, and the super-hard materials polycrystalline diamond and cubic boron nitride (single crystal diamondsare ... manufacture: a lathe, a milling and a drilling machine,with three loadings and unloadings and three set-ups. It is the possibility of reducing load-ings and set-ups that has led to the further halving...