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Additive manufacturing (AM) processes, in particular selective laser melting (SLM), are predestined for the implementation of innovative cutting tool functions and tool geometries [1]. Using SLM, structures such as complex internal cooling channels for minimum quantity lubrication systems (MQL) [2] and cryogenic carbon dioxide cooling [3], which were previously difficult to produce using conventional manufacturing processes, can now be produced. Mini-channels are used in a wide variety of applications in mechanical engineering. While they are used in plastic injection moulding and die casting to cool the tool mould [4], cooling channels are used in machining both for cooling and for the direct supply of lubricant to the cutting zone [5]. |
