Microstructural Characterization of Chip Segmentation Under Different Machining Environments in Orthogonal Machining of Ti6Al4V

Author(s):  
Shashikant Joshi ◽  
Asim Tewari ◽  
Suhas S. Joshi

Segmented chips are known to form in machining of titanium alloys due to localization of heat in the shear zone, which is a function of machining environment. To investigate the correlation between machining environments and microstructural aspects of chip segmentation, orthogonal turning experiments were performed under three machining environments, viz., room, LN2, and 260 °C. Scanning electron and optical microscopy of chip roots show that the mechanism of chip segment formation changes from plastic strain and mode II fracture at room temperature, to predominant mode I fracture at LN2 and plastic strain leading to shear band formation at 260 °C. The chip segment pitch and shear plane length predicted using Deform™ matched well with the experimental values at room temperature. The microstructural analysis of chips show that higher shear localization occurs at room temperature than the other two temperatures. The depth of machining affected zone (MAZ) on work surfaces was lower at the two temperatures than that of at the room temperature at a higher cutting speed of 91.8 m/min.

2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Joshi ◽  
N. Ramakrishnan ◽  
P. Ramakrishnan

Discontinuously Reinforced Aluminum (DRA) Composites form unique case from the research in metal cutting point of view. Reinforcement in these materials acts as “macroscopic” and “isolated” discontinuities in the path of the tool. The mechanism of chip formation for such materials is yet to be evolved completely. In this paper, the mechanism of chip formation during machining of Al/SiCp composites based on the micro-structural analysis of chips and chip roots is presented. It was evident that the mechanism involves initiation of a gross fracture on the chip free surface and its propagation toward the tool nose. The extent of propagation of gross fracture depends upon the cutting speed and volume of reinforcement in composites. A model of deformation of the material along the shear plane is presented in terms of a ratio of length of flow-type deformation on the shear plane to the total length of shear plane. Influence of volume of reinforcement in composites and cutting speed on the ratio was verified experimentally.


Author(s):  
Shashikant Joshi ◽  
Asim Tewari ◽  
Suhas Joshi

Chip segmentation due to shear localization during machining of titanium alloys affects cutting forces and their machinability. Despite several studies on modeling and understanding influence of chip segmentation, little is known about the effect of preheating on it. This work therefore, involves orthogonal machining of Ti6Al4V alloy under preheating between 100 °C and 350 °C to investigate chip segmentation, shear band configuration, and microstructure of machined surfaces, through optical and scanning electron microscopy of chips and chip roots. Conceptual models of chip segment formation have been evolved. Shear band formation appears to be the dominant mechanism of chip segmentation up to 260 °C preheating, however at 350 °C, extent of fracture along the shear plane increases. The preheating increases spacing between shear bands in chips, reduces shear band thickness from 21 μm at 100 °C to 8 μm at 350 °C, and ultimately reduces cutting forces fluctuation, and compressive residual stresses in the machined surfaces.


Author(s):  
J. Temple Black

Tool materials used in ultramicrotomy are glass, developed by Latta and Hartmann (1) and diamond, introduced by Fernandez-Moran (2). While diamonds produce more good sections per knife edge than glass, they are expensive; require careful mounting and handling; and are time consuming to clean before and after usage, purchase from vendors (3-6 months waiting time), and regrind. Glass offers an easily accessible, inexpensive material ($0.04 per knife) with very high compressive strength (3) that can be employed in microtomy of metals (4) as well as biological materials. When the orthogonal machining process is being studied, glass offers additional advantages. Sections of metal or plastic can be dried down on the rake face, coated with Au-Pd, and examined directly in the SEM with no additional handling (5). Figure 1 shows aluminum chips microtomed with a 75° glass knife at a cutting speed of 1 mm/sec with a depth of cut of 1000 Å lying on the rake face of the knife.


Author(s):  
D. L. Rohr ◽  
S. S. Hecker

As part of a comprehensive study of microstructural and mechanical response of metals to uniaxial and biaxial deformations, the development of substructure in 1100 A1 has been studied over a range of plastic strain for two stress states.Specimens of 1100 aluminum annealed at 350 C were tested in uniaxial (UT) and balanced biaxial tension (BBT) at room temperature to different strain levels. The biaxial specimens were produced by the in-plane punch stretching technique. Areas of known strain levels were prepared for TEM by lapping followed by jet electropolishing. All specimens were examined in a JEOL 200B run at 150 and 200 kV within 24 to 36 hours after testing.The development of the substructure with deformation is shown in Fig. 1 for both stress states. Initial deformation produces dislocation tangles, which form cell walls by 10% uniaxial deformation, and start to recover to form subgrains by 25%. The results of several hundred measurements of cell/subgrain sizes by a linear intercept technique are presented in Table I.


2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-31
Author(s):  
C. Fleißner-Rieger ◽  
T. Pogrielz ◽  
D. Obersteiner ◽  
T. Pfeifer ◽  
H. Clemens ◽  
...  

Abstract Additive manufacturing processes allow the production of geometrically complex lightweight structures with specific material properties. However, by contrast with ingot metallurgy methods, the manufacture of components using this process also brings about some challenges. In the field of microstructural characterization, where mostly very fine structures are analyzed, it is thus indispensable to optimize the classic sample preparation process and to furthermore implement additional preparation steps. This work focuses on the metallography of additively manufactured Ti‑6Al‑4V components produced in a selective laser melting process. It offers a guideline for the metallographic preparation along the process chain of additive manufacturing from the metal powder characterization to the macro- and microstructural analysis of the laser melted sample. Apart from developing preparation parameters, selected etching methods were examined with regard to their practicality.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taoreed O. Owolabi ◽  
Kabiru O. Akande ◽  
Sunday O. Olatunji

Doping and fabrication conditions bring about disorder in MgB2superconductor and further influence its room temperature resistivity as well as its superconducting transition temperature (TC). Existence of a model that directly estimatesTCof any doped MgB2superconductor from the room temperature resistivity would have immense significance since room temperature resistivity is easily measured using conventional resistivity measuring instrument and the experimental measurement ofTCwastes valuable resources and is confined to low temperature regime. This work develops a model, superconducting transition temperature estimator (STTE), that directly estimatesTCof disordered MgB2superconductors using room temperature resistivity as input to the model. STTE was developed through training and testing support vector regression (SVR) with ten experimental values of room temperature resistivity and their correspondingTCusing the best performance parameters obtained through test-set cross validation optimization technique. The developed STTE was used to estimateTCof different disordered MgB2superconductors and the obtained results show excellent agreement with the reported experimental data. STTE can therefore be incorporated into resistivity measuring instruments for quick and direct estimation ofTCof disordered MgB2superconductors with high degree of accuracy.


1984 ◽  
Vol 30 (104) ◽  
pp. 77-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.K. Lieu ◽  
C.D. Mote

AbstractThe cutting force components and the cutting moment on the cutting tool were measured during the orthogonal machining of ice with cutting tools inclined at negative rake angles. The variables included the cutting depth (< 1 mm), the cutting speed (0.01 ms−1to 1 ms−1), and the rake angles (–15° to –60°). Results of the experiments showed that the cutting force components were approximately independent of cutting speed. The resultant cutting force on the tool was in a direction approximately normal to the cutting face of the tool. The magnitude of the resultant force increased with the negative rake angle. Photographs of ice-chip formation revealed continuous and segmented chips at different cutting depths.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rendi Kurniawan ◽  
Farooq Ahmed ◽  
Gun Chul Park ◽  
Tae Jo Ko

Abstract In the 2D-Vibration Assisted Cutting (2D-VAC) method, the cutting tool shakes in a 2-dimensional approach because of superimposed high-frequency modulation. This high-frequency modulation effect creates a displacement at a tiny scale of micrometers and causes an escalation in the resultant cutting speed. Consequently, 2D-VAC has superior advantages compared to traditional cutting (TC). This manuscript describes research on 2D-VAC that focuses on modeling cutting forces (mathematical model) and finite element analysis (FEA) results. The FEA results are focused on the von Mises stress, plastic strain, cutting force, cutting temperature, and residual stress. In addition, an experiment for the chip formation, micro-structure layer, and micro-hardness was also analyzed in this study. According to the modeling results, the cutting force has a comparable pattern to the FEA results. The stress contour result confirms that the 2D-VAC method has lower stress than that in the TC method during tool retraction mode. Additionally, the plastic strain in the 2D-VAC method can be higher than that in the TC method. According to the temperature results, the peak temperature in the 2D-VAC could be higher than that in the TC method. The residual stress shows that there is a compressive effect. Thus, the compressive stress is higher than that in the TC method. Micro-hardness results confirmed that there is not too much change from the original surface in the 2D-VAC method. The result of micro-structure morphology also confirmed that there is a significant shear deformation flow in case of the TC method, although less occurs in the 2D-VAC method.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 5856
Author(s):  
Pragya Mishra ◽  
Pia Åkerfeldt ◽  
Farnoosh Forouzan ◽  
Fredrik Svahn ◽  
Yuan Zhong ◽  
...  

Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) has attracted great interest in the aerospace and medical sectors because it can produce complex and lightweight parts with high accuracy. Austenitic stainless steel alloy 316 L is widely used in many applications due to its good mechanical properties and high corrosion resistance over a wide temperature range. In this study, L-PBF-processed 316 L was investigated for its suitability in aerospace applications at cryogenic service temperatures and the behavior at cryogenic temperature was compared with room temperature to understand the properties and microstructural changes within this temperature range. Tensile tests were performed at room temperature and at −196 °C to study the mechanical performance and phase changes. The microstructure and fracture surfaces were characterized using scanning electron microscopy, and the phases were analyzed by X-ray diffraction. The results showed a significant increase in the strength of 316 L at −196 °C, while its ductility remained at an acceptable level. The results indicated the formation of ε and α martensite during cryogenic testing, which explained the increase in strength. Nanoindentation revealed different hardness values, indicating the different mechanical properties of austenite (γ), strained austenite, body-centered cubic martensite (α), and hexagonal close-packed martensite (ε) formed during the tensile tests due to mechanical deformation.


2003 ◽  
Vol 806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendelin J. Wright ◽  
R. H. Dauskardt ◽  
W. D. Nix

ABSTRACTThe major mechanical shortcoming of metallic glasses is their limited ductility at room temperature. Monolithic metallic glasses sustain only a few percent plastic strain when subjected to uniaxial compression and essentially no plastic strain under tension. Here we describe a room temperature deformation process that may have the potential to overcome the limited ductility of monolithic metallic glasses and achieve large plastic strains. By subjecting a metallic glass sample to cyclic torsion, the glass is brought to the yield surface; the superposition of a small uniaxial stress (much smaller than the yield stress) should then produce increments in plastic strain along the tensile axis. This accumulation of strain during cyclic loading, commonly known as ratcheting, has been extensively investigated in stainless and carbon steel alloys, but has not been previously studied in metallic glasses. We have successfully demonstrated the application of this ratcheting technique of cyclic torsion with superimposed tension for polycrystalline Ti–6Al–4V. Our stability analyses indicate that the plastic deformation of materials exhibiting elastic–perfectly plastic constitutive behavior such as metallic glasses should be stable under cyclic torsion, however, results obtained thus far are inconclusive.


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