Hello Sajad, you could use also these software to solve your problem:

Third wave systems, discrete system (Matlab) and Mechanical solutions software MSC.

Best regards

Hello Sajad, I have used ABAQUS to perform a chip formation simulation. In this I have used the Johnson-Cook model to capture the metal behavior at the instant of chip separation. I am not aware of any theory to predict the chip formation AFTER separation. But any concept that can be applied for this phenomenon, can be programmed in ABAQUS through the use of User Subroutines.

As far as I know, ABAQUS has more capabilities than Deform, without this meaning that one software is more suitable than the other. Of paramount importance in research is the soundness of the numerical results, regardless of the software used to obtain them.

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Hello Sajad,

let me suggest to you these two works based on Ti alloy:

- doi:10.1016/j.msea.2014.08.076

- doi:10.1016/j.cirpj.2014.03.001

even if  they are based on orthogonal cutting, there are many information about chip formation and may be you can find something interesting (or some references)  for your analysis.

From the SIMULATION point of view I think that DEFORM is better than ABAQUS if you are trying to simulate machining process. In fact, in Abaqus, unless you have a good home-developed remeshing algorithm, you risk to lose many information such as temperature, strain, strain-rate or surface integrity information (if you can implement some equations via user-subroutine) close to the region where elements deletion occurs. Moreover, DEFORM provides to you important tools such dynamic mesh windows where you can locally change the element size and if you coupled it with a local remeshing feature (provided by the software) you can preserve the prediction of all the variables data without loosing information (no elements deletion occurs).

I hope that these information can help you.

Best Regards.