ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I take this opportunity to express sincere gratitude to my project guide Mr. K.Sudhakar,
Asso.prof., Department of Mechanical Engineering, SVITS, for his valuable suggestions
and guidance towards the completion of this project. He gave me valuable advice and was
good enough to find time for fruitful discussions.

I would like to thank Mr. B.Tejavardhan, Asso.Prof., Head Department of Mechanical

Engineering, SVITS, for his encouragement and cooperation.

I would like to thank Dr. G.Thirupati Reddy, Principal, SVITS, for his support.

Finally, I would like to thank all my family members and all others who had helped me
directly or indirectly in successful completion of my project in time.

V MAHESH KUMAR REDDY

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 DECLARATION

I declare that the project work reported in the thesis entitled “Experimental Investigation to
Predict tool life in Face Milling of aluminum alloy using Design of Experiments” is a
record of the work done by me in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sree
Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology & Science.

V MAHESH KUMAR REDDY

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