Mini symposium on cutting and machining: 25 years of ESAFORM activity

This paper reports on the state of the art in the experimental and numerical investigations of cutting and machining processes. The contributions on the above-mentioned processes and published on the Proceedings of the European Scientific Association for material FORMing (ESAFORM) Conferences are highlighted. In particular, this literature review is an update of a previous one conducted in the 2007, after ten years of the ESAFORM activities, and it confirms the crucial role played by the minisymposium on Machining and Cutting in this field. In fact, the research has been quite active even in these last fifteen years, as demonstrated by the number of contributions and their relevant scientific contents. As overall, this review shows as the minisymposium on Machining and Cutting, that has been organized since 2001 with no interruptions, has contributed to the scientific progress on the study of the material removal processes.