Milling stability interrogation by subharmonic sampling

This paper describes the use of subharmonic sampling to distinguish between different instability types in milling. It is demonstrated that sampling time-domain milling signals at integer multiples of the tooth period enables secondary Hopf and period-n bifurcations to be automatically differentiated. A numerical metric is applied, where the normalized sum of the absolute values of the differences between successively sampled points is used to distinguish between the potential bifurcation types. A new stability map that individually identifies stable and individual bifurcation zones is presented. The map is constructed using time-domain simulation and the new subharmonic sampling metric.