scholarly journals Sustainability-Based Analysis of Conventional to High-Speed Machining of Al 6061-T6 Alloy

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 9032
Author(s):  
Salman Sagheer Warsi ◽  
Taiba Zahid ◽  
Hassan Elahi ◽  
Raja Awais Liaqait ◽  
Saira Bibi ◽  
...  

High-speed machining is considered to be a promising machining technique due to its advantages, such as high productivity and better product quality. With a paradigm shift towards sustainable machining practices, the energy consumption analysis of high-speed machining is also gaining ever-increasing importance. The current article addresses this issue and presents a detailed analysis of specific cutting energy (SCE) consumption and product surface finish (Ra) during conventional to high-speed machining of Al 6061-T6. A Taguchi-based L16 orthogonal array experimental design was developed for the conventional to high-speed machining range of an Al 6061-T6 alloy. The analysis of the results revealed that SCE consumption and Ra improve when the cutting speed is increased from conventional to high-speed machining. In particular, SCE was observed to reduce linearly in conventional and transitional speed machining, whereas it followed a parabolic trend in high-speed machining. This parabolic trend indicates the existence of an optimal cutting speed that may lead to minimum SCE consumption. Chip morphology was performed to further investigate the parabolic trend of SCE in high-speed machining. Chip morphology revealed that the serration of chips initiates when the cutting speed is increased beyond 1750 m/min at a feed rate of 0.4 mm/rev.

2012 ◽  
Vol 468-471 ◽  
pp. 2310-2314
Author(s):  
Yang Tan ◽  
Yi Lin Chi ◽  
Ya Yu Huang ◽  
Ting Qiang Yao

High speed milling of hard alloy steels utilized in dies and molds is a highly demanding operation. The finite element model was developed to investigate the high speed machining of alloy cast iron which is used in auto panel dies. The modified Johnson-cook constitutive model was used to model the complex dynamic material behavior, a damage evaluation law based on Cockroft and Latham model was used to simulate the ductile fracture of alloy cast iron. The crack initiation and propagation was simulated explicitly using an explicit FEM code. Simulation results showed that the chip morphology transited from continuous to saw-tooth chip with increasing cutting speed, cutting force decreased when increasing the cutting speed, which provide a useful understanding of chip formation process in high speed machining of alloy cast iron.


Author(s):  
Muataz Al Hazza ◽  
Khadijah Muhammad

High speed machining has many advantages in reducing time to the market by increasing the material removal rate. However, final surface quality is one of the main challenges for manufacturers in high speed machining due to the increasing of flank wear rate. In high speed machining, the cutting zone is under high pressure associated with high temperature that lead to increasing of the flank wear rate in which affect the final quality of the machined surface. Therefore, one of the main concerns to the manufacturer is to predict the flank wear to estimate and predict the surface roughness as one of the main outputs of the machining processes. The aim of this study is to determine experimentally the optimum cutting parameters: depth of cut, cutting speed (Vc) and feed rate (f) that maintaining low flank wear (Vb). Taguchi method has been applied in this experiment. The Taguchi method has been universally used in engineering analysis.  JMP statistical analysis software is used to analyse statically the development of flank wear rate during high speed milling of hardened steel AISI D2 to 60 HRD. The experiment was conducted in the following boundaries: cutting speed 200-400 m/min, feed rate of 0.01-0.05 mm/tooth and depth of cut of 0.1-0.2 mm. Analysis of variance ANOVA was conducted as one of important tool for statistical analysis. The result showed that cutting speed is the most influential input factors with 70.04% contribution on flank wear.


2013 ◽  
Vol 465-466 ◽  
pp. 642-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abu Bakar Mohd Hadzley ◽  
Mohamad Raffi Nurul Fatin ◽  
Raja Abdullah Raja Izamshah ◽  
Nur Izan Syahriah Hussein ◽  
Ahmad Siti Sarah ◽  
...  

The high speed machining (HSM) of gray cast iron for manufacture mold and dies involve many different cutting tool from deep hole drills to smallest ball nose end mills [. Due to the demand of fast and high productivity, high speed machining (HSM) has been increasingly used to produce mold and dies that are mostly used in automotive industry especially for stamping dies components. The process of HSM sometimes combined together with manual polishing to enhance the die surface into fine mirror finish. Although the manual polishing strongly depends by experience and skill of workers, this technique is the preferable option for polishing of moulds and dies. However, such extensive manual polishing will provide some drawback because of many human factors such as pressure and technique of polishing individual person uses. Therefore, the application high speed machining in manufacturing is still demanding as it can improve surface finishing by reducing manual polishing, reportedly account for up to 30% of the total time [2].


2017 ◽  
Vol 889 ◽  
pp. 84-89
Author(s):  
Pandithevan Ponnusamy ◽  
Mullapudi Joshi

In high speed machining, to dynamically control the mechanical behaviour of the materials, it is essential to control temperature, stress and strain by appropriate speed, feed and depth of cut. In the present work, to predict the mechanical behaviour of Ti6Al4V and 316L steel bio-materials an explicit dynamic analysis with different cutting speeds was carried out. Orthogonal cutting of 316L steel and Ti6Al4V materials with 720 m/min, 900 m/min and 1200 m/min cutting speeds was performed, and the distribution of stress and temperature was investigated using Jonson-Cook material model. Additionally, the work aimed at determining the effect of cutting speed on work piece temperature, when cutting is carried out continuously. From the investigation, it was found that, while machining Ti6Al4V material, for the increase in cutting speed there was increase in tool-chip interface temperature. Specifically, this could found till the cutting speed 900 m/min. But, there was a decrease in tool-chip interface temperature for the increase in speed from 900 m/min to 1200 m/min. Similarly for 316L steel, the tool-chip interface temperature increased when increasing the cutting speed till 900 m/min. But reduction in temperature from 650 °C to 500 °C for steel and 1028 °C to 990 °C for Ti6Al4V were found, when the cutting speed increased from 900 m/min to 1200 m/min. The study can be used to conclude, at what temperature range the adoption of material with controlled shape and geometry is possible for potential applications like, prosthetic design and surgical instruments prior to fabrications.


2011 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 578-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiyuki Obikawa ◽  
Masahiro Anzai ◽  
Tsuneo Egawa ◽  
Norihiko Narutaki ◽  
Kazuhiro Shintani ◽  
...  

This paper describes strong nonlinearity in log V-log L relationship, which is often found in machining of supperalloys, titanium alloys, hardened steels, cast irons, etc. The nonlinearity plays an important and favorable role in extension of life-span cutting distance at higher cutting speeds; that is, in a certain range of cutting speed, life-span cutting distance increases with cutting speed. Results of tool wear in a sliding test and cutting experiments, which showed the evidences of strong nonlinearity, were investigated and the mechanisms causing the nonlinearity were discussed.


Author(s):  
Zengqiang Wang ◽  
Zhanfei Zhang ◽  
Wenhu Wang ◽  
Ruisong Jiang ◽  
Kunyang Lin ◽  
...  

Abstract High speed cutting (HSC) technology has the characteristics of high material removal rates and high machining precision. In order to study the relationships between chip morphology and machining surface characteristic in high speed cutting of superalloy Inconel718. High-speed orthogonal cutting experiment are carried out by used a high speed cutting device based on split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB). The specimen surfaces and collected chips were then detected with optical microscope, scanning electron microscope and three-dimensional surface profile measuring instrument. The results show that within the experimental parameters (cutting speed from 8–16m/s, depth of cut 0.1–0.5mm), the obtained chips are sawtooth chips and periodic micro-ripple appear on the machined surface. With the cutting speed increases, machining surface roughness is decreases from 1.4 to 0.99μm, and the amplitude of periodic ripples also decreases. With the cutting depth increases, the machining surface roughness increases from 0.96 to 5.12μm and surface topography becomes worse. With the increase of cutting speed and depth of cut, the chips are transform from continues sawtooth to sawtooth fragment. By comparing the frequency of surface ripples and sawtooth chips, it is found that they are highly consistent.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1020
Author(s):  
Xu Zhang ◽  
Guangming Zheng ◽  
Xiang Cheng ◽  
Rufeng Xu ◽  
Guoyong Zhao ◽  
...  

Considering that iron-based super alloy is a kind of difficult-to-cut material, it is easy to produce work hardening and serious tool wear during machining. Therefore, this work aims to explore the chip change characteristics and tool wear mechanism during the processing of iron-based super alloy, calculate the fractal dimensions of chip morphology and tool wear morphology, and use fractals to analyze their change trend. Meanwhile, a new cutting tool with a super ZX coating is used for a high-speed dry turning experiment. The results indicate that the morphology of the chip is saw-tooth, and its color changes gradually, due to the oxidation reaction. The main wear mechanisms of the tool involve abrasive wear, adhesive wear, oxidation wear, coating spalling, microcracking and chipping. The fractal dimension of the tool wear surface and chip is increased with the improvement of cutting speed. This work investigates the fractal characteristics of chip morphology and tool wear morphology. The fractal dimension changes regularly with the change of tool wear, which plays an important role in predicting this tool wear. It is also provides some guidance for the efficient processing of an iron-based super alloy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 723 ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Xiao Ping Ren ◽  
Zhan Qiang Liu ◽  
Yi Wan

Numerical controlled milling is widely used in the manufacturing industry because of its high productivity and workpiece surface quality. The aim of this work is to establish a methodology to evaluate the rough machining time and to predict optimal values of cutting speed to minimise machining time of circular cavity, during high speed milling. The circular cavity is divided into volumes distributed according to the real radial depth. The obtained results show that the proposed method is consistent with the actual situation.


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