Surface Integrity of Die Material in High Speed Hard Machining, Part 1: Micrographical Analysis

1999 ◽  
Vol 122 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. I. El-Wardany ◽  
H. A. Kishawy ◽  
M. A. Elbestawi

The effects of cutting conditions and tool wear on chip morphology and surface integrity during high speed machining of D2 tool steel (60–62 Hrc) are investigated experimentally and analytically in this paper. Polycrystalline Cubic Boron Nitride (PCBN) tools are used in this investigation. The chips and the subsurface of the workpiece are examined using optical and scanning electron microscopy. Microhardness measurements are performed on the surface and subsurface of the workpiece. The X-ray diffraction technique is used to measure the residual stresses induced in the machined surface. The paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 presents the results obtained from the micrographical analysis of the chips and the surfaces produced. Part 2 deals with microhardness and residual stresses of the machined surface. The micrographical analysis of the chips produced shows that different mechanisms of chip formation exist depending on the magnitude of the cutting pressure and tool wear. Saw toothed chips are produced during the machining of D2 tool steel if the cutting pressure exceeds approximately 4000 MPa. The metallographic analysis of the surface produced illustrates the damaged surface region that contains geometrical defects and changes in the subsurface metallurgical structure. The types of surface damage are dependent on the cutting conditions, tool geometry and the magnitude of the wear lands. [S1087-1357(00)00104-0]

2014 ◽  
Vol 541-542 ◽  
pp. 785-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joon Young Koo ◽  
Pyeong Ho Kim ◽  
Moon Ho Cho ◽  
Hyuk Kim ◽  
Jeong Kyu Oh ◽  
...  

This paper presents finite element method (FEM) and experimental analysis on high-speed milling for thin-wall machining of Al7075-T651. Changes in cutting forces, temperature, and chip morphology according to cutting conditions are analyzed using FEM. Results of machining experiments are analyzed in terms of cutting forces and surface integrity such as surface roughness and surface condition. Variables of cutting conditions are feed per tooth, spindle speed, and axial depth of cut. Cutting conditions to improve surface integrity were investigated by analysis on cutting forces and surface roughness, and machined surface condition.


Author(s):  
Daniel Loureiro ◽  
Anselmo E Diniz ◽  
Alexandre B Farina ◽  
Sérgio Delijaicov

Nickel-based alloys are used in industrial sectors where high mechanical strength and corrosion resistance are required at high temperatures. However, these alloys have low machinability as a consequence of inherent properties. Some of these properties such as high cold work hardening rate and low heat conductivity may cause damages to the machined surface. Among the nickel-based alloys, one that has good properties for oil exploration is alloy 625. As the components made of this alloy are frequently used in very rough environments, this study sought to evaluate the influence of tool geometry, cutting conditions (feed and cutting speed) and tool condition (fresh or worn) on the surface integrity of turned alloy 625 parts in order to discover turning practices for this alloy that result in minimal damage to the workpiece surface. A secondary aim was to evaluate how these input variables affected the life of the coated carbide tools used in the turning experiments with this alloy. The main conclusions are that (a) the surfaces produced with a fresh tool with positive geometry had compressive residual stresses, while those produced with negative tool geometry had tensile residual stresses and (b) when a worn tool was used all the surfaces produced had compressive residual stresses.


2012 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 177-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Shi ◽  
Yin Fei Yang ◽  
Ning He ◽  
Liang Li ◽  
Wei Zhao

TC4-DT is a new damage-tolerant titanium alloy. In the paper, a series of experiments on tool wear and surface integrity in high speed milling of the alloy were carried out. The tool lives of different tool materials were studied and the wear mechanism of cutting tools was also investigated. Then surface integrity, including surface roughness, microhardness and metallurgical structure was studied and analyzed in high speed milling at different tool wear status. Results showed that K10 is the most suitable cutting tool after considering a combination of factors. And good surface integrity could be obtained in high speed milling of TC4-DT under all cutting situations. In addition, even with acutely worn stages, there has been no so-called serious hardening layer (or white layer) according to the study of microhardness and metallurgical structure beneath the machined surface.


Author(s):  
Xueping Zhang ◽  
Rajiv Shivpuri ◽  
Anil K. Srivastava

Residual stresses generated from finish machining have a significant impact on the fatigue life of mechanical components by controlling crack initiation and propagation processes in their near subsurface. As governing variables, tool geometry, tool wear, machining parameter, work material property, and lubrication conditions have been widely studied to determine their effects on residual stress pattern in machined surface and subsurface. Among those parameters, tool flank wear was seldom fully investigated although tool flank wear, as well as machining speed, has been identified as the most important contributor to residual stress. Especially, tool flank wear becomes more significant due to the poor work thermal property during the high speed machining of titanium Ti-6Al-4V alloy. This study aims to investigate the combined role of tool flank wear and machining speed in developing residual stress in the machining of titanium alloy using finite element method. A microstructure sensitive material model based on Self Consistent Method (SCM) is adopted to incorporate the phase state and its transformations during machining cycle. Critical flank wear land and corresponding machining speeds are identified, beyond which compressive residual stresses are transferred into tensile residual stresses. High machining speeds demonstrate a distinct influence on residual stresses by means of promoting tool flank wear rate. The numerical simulation results are validated by empirical data provided in previous research.


Author(s):  
Balkrishna Rao ◽  
Yung C. Shin

This paper is concerned with the experimental and numerical study of the high speed face milling of Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy. Machining is carried out by uncoated carbide and polycrystalline diamond cutters in the presence of an abundant supply of coolant. Experimental analysis is conducted in terms of cutting forces, chip morphology, surface integrity and tool wear. The experimental analysis is supplemented by simulations from the finite element analysis where needed. The highest cutting speed realized for both the cutting tool materials is 600 sfpm with the diamond cutter operating at feeds lower than that for carbide. Good surface integrity in terms of residual stress and surface finish is achieved under the machining conditions used with limited tool wear. Residual stresses imparted to the machined surface are compressive with the diamond tool yielding higher values and are the most sensitive to feed. Tool wear patterns are described in terms of various cutting conditions.


2014 ◽  
Vol 633-634 ◽  
pp. 574-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xia Ji ◽  
Alexander H. Shih ◽  
Manik Rajora ◽  
Ya Min Shao ◽  
Steven Y. Liang

Surface integrity, such as surface roughness and residual stress, is an aspect of surface quality on machined parts. Residual stress in the machined surface and subsurface is affected by materials, machining conditions, and tool geometry. These residual stresses could affect the service qualify and component life significantly. Residual stress can be determined by empirical or numerical experiments for selected configurations, even if both are expensive procedures. This paper presents a hybrid neural network that is trained using Simulated Annealing (SA) and Levenberg-Marquardt Algorithm (LM) in order to predict the values of residual stresses in cutting and radial direction after the MQL face turning process accurately. To verify the performance of the proposed approach, the predicted results are compared with the results obtained by training an ANN using SA and LM separately. The results have shown that the hybrid neural network outperforms SA and LM in predicting machining induced surface integrity that is critical to determine the fatigue life of the components.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 168781402110112
Author(s):  
Li Xun ◽  
Wang Ziming ◽  
Yang Shenliang ◽  
Guo Zhiyuan ◽  
Zhou Yongxin ◽  
...  

Titanium alloy Ti1023 is a typical difficult-to-cut material. Tool wear is easy to occur in machining Ti1023, which has a significant negative effect on surface integrity. Turning is one of the common methods to machine Ti1023 parts and machined surface integrity has a direct influence on the fatigue life of parts. To control surface integrity and improve anti-fatigue behavior of Ti1023 parts, it has an important significance to study the influence of tool wear on the surface integrity and fatigue life of Ti1023 in turning. Therefore, the effect of tool wear on the surface roughness, microhardness, residual stress, and plastic deformation layer of Ti1023 workpieces by turning and low-cycle fatigue tests were studied. Meanwhile, the influence mechanism of surface integrity on anti-fatigue behavior also was analyzed. The experimental results show that the change of surface roughness caused by worn tools has the most influence on anti-fatigue behavior when the tool wear VB is from 0.05 to 0.25 mm. On the other hand, the plastic deformation layer on the machined surface could properly improve the anti-fatigue behavior of specimens that were proved in the experiments. However, the higher surface roughness and significant surface defects on surface machined utilizing the worn tool with VB = 0.30 mm, which leads the anti-fatigue behavior of specimens to decrease sharply. Therefore, to ensure the anti-fatigue behavior of parts, the value of turning tool wear VB must be rigorously controlled under 0.30 mm during finishing machining of titanium alloy Ti1023.


Tribology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bardetsky ◽  
Helmi Attia ◽  
Mohamed Elbestawi

Experimental study has been carried out to establish the effect of cutting conditions (speed, feed, and depth of cut) on the cutting forces and time variation of carbide tool wear data in high-speed machining (face milling) of Al-Si cast alloys that are commonly used in the automotive industry. The experimental setup and force measurement system are described. The test results are used to calibrate and validate the fracture mechanics-based tool wear model developed in Part 1 of this work. The model calibration is conducted for two combinations of cutting speed and a feed rate, which represent a lower and upper limit of the range of cutting conditions. The calibrated model is then validated for a wide range of cutting conditions. This validation is performed by comparing the experimental tool wear data with the tool wear predicted by calibrated cutting tool wear model. The prediction errors were found to be less then 7%, demonstrating the accuracy of the object oriented finite element (OOFE) modeling of the crack propagation process in the cobalt binder. It also demonstrates its capability in capturing the physics of the wear process. This is attributed to the fact that the OOF model incorporates the real microstructure of the tool material.


2006 ◽  
Vol 315-316 ◽  
pp. 140-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su Yu Wang ◽  
Xing Ai ◽  
Jun Zhao ◽  
Z.J. Lv

An orthogonal cutting model was presented to simulate high-speed machining (HSM) process based on metal cutting theory and finite element method (FEM). The residual stresses in the machined surface layer were obtained with various cutting speeds using finite element simulation. The variations of residual stresses in the cutting direction and beneath the workpiece surface were studied. It is shown that the thermal load produced at higher cutting speed is the primary factor affecting the residual stress in the machined surface layer.


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