Hello there
Hope this is the right section to ask this. I'm currently doing some cutting force analysis for the milling of Inconel. The type of milling done is 1/8 immersion and an end mill cutter is used.
This is what the forces in the X axis looks like this. As you can see, some of the forces are in the negative. What are the possible explanations for this? If I were to do a comparison for the average forces when machining parameters are varied, is it reasonable to simply use the mean of the peak forces values?