Experimental study on the surface roughness of micromilled Elgiloy™

Author(s):  
P Zhang ◽  
B Wang ◽  
Y Liang ◽  
M J Jackson

Elgiloy™ is a cobalt-based alloy with excellent physical and chemical performance, and is used widely in medical and industrial applications. The machining accuracy, surface topography, and surface damaged layer play an important role in the use of the alloy for specific applications. In this paper, an experimental study on the surface roughness of precision micromilling of Elgiloy is accomplished by using a super-fine-grained tungsten carbide milling cutter. The surface topography of the surface of the slots milled is achieved with different values of feed speed and axial depth of cut. Three-dimensional (3D) measurement results are considered to reflect the surface topography based on a comparison of the difference between two-dimensional (2D) and 3D surface roughness measurements. The arithmetic mean deviation of the slots’ 3D surface is achieved by using a white light interferometric profilometer. By using analysis of variance (ANOVA), the factors of feed speed, axial depth of cut, and their interaction are proven to be the most important factors relating to the magnitude of surface roughness.

2012 ◽  
Vol 576 ◽  
pp. 60-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.A.H. Jasni ◽  
Mohd Amri Lajis

Hard milling of hardened steel has wide application in mould and die industries. However, milling induced surface finish has received little attention. An experimental investigation is conducted to comprehensively characterize the surface roughness of AISI D2 hardened steel (58-62 HRC) in end milling operation using TiAlN/AlCrN multilayer coated carbide. Surface roughness (Ra) was examined at different cutting speed (v) and radial depth of cut (dr) while the measurement was taken in feed speed, Vf and cutting speed, Vc directions. The experimental results show that the milled surface is anisotropic in nature. Surface roughness values in feed speed direction do not appear to correspond to any definite pattern in relation to cutting speed, while it increases with radial depth-of-cut within the range 0.13-0.24 µm. In cutting speed direction, surface roughness value decreases in the high speed range, while it increases in the high radial depth of cut. Radial depth of cut is the most influencing parameter in surface roughness followed by cutting speed.


Author(s):  
Yutong Qiu ◽  
Jingfei Yin ◽  
Yang Cao ◽  
Wenfeng Ding

Tangential ultrasonic vibration-assisted grinding (TUAG) has a wide prospect in machining difficult-to-machine materials. However, the surface generation mechanism in TUAG is not fully recovered. This study proposes an analytical model of the surface topography produced by TUAG. Based on the model, the surface topography and roughness are predicted and experimentally verified. In addition, the influence of the grinding parameters on the surface topography is analyzed. The predicted surface topography well coincides with experimental measurements, and the prediction error in surface roughness Ra by the proposed model is less than 5%. Compared with conventional grinding, TUAG produces a surface with more uniform scratches and surface roughness Ra was reduced by up to 27% with the proper parameters. However, the improvement of surface roughness in TUAG is weakened when grinding speed or depth of cut increases. Moreover, the influence of the ultrasonic vibration amplitude on the surface roughness is not monotonous. With the grinding parameters selected in this study, TUAG with an ultrasonic amplitude of 7.5 μm produces the minimum surface roughness.


2009 ◽  
Vol 69-70 ◽  
pp. 128-132
Author(s):  
Ming Li Zhao ◽  
Bo Zhao ◽  
Yu Qing Wang ◽  
Guo Fu Gao

The orthogonal test of surface roughness in ultrasonic polishing nano-ZrO2 ceramics was carried out in the present paper. Through the test, the influence of machining parameters on the surface roughness was investigated. The test results showed that the influence of abrasive size on surface roughness is the most remarkable, and the other important factors are the depth of cut, on/off work situation of ultrasonic generator, axial feed speed, and working table speed in turns. Furthermore, through the regressive analysis of test data, an empirical formula of surface roughness was established to select reasonable polishing parameters.


2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950081 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHUNHUI JI ◽  
SHUANGQIU SUN ◽  
BIN LIN ◽  
TIANYI SUI

This work performed molecular dynamic simulations to study the 2D profile and 3D surface topography in the nanometric cutting process. The least square mean method was used to model the evaluation criteria for the surface roughness at the nanometric scale. The result showed that the cutting speed was the most important factor influencing the spacing between the peaks, the sharpness of the peaks, and the randomness of the profile. The plastic deformation degree of the machined surface at the nanometric scale was significantly influenced by the cutting speed and depth of cut. The 2D and 3D surface roughness parameters exhibited a similar variation tendency, and the parameters Ra and Rq tended to increase gradually with an increase in the cutting speed and a decrease in the depth of cut. Finally, it is concluded that at the nanometric scale, the 3D surface roughness parameters could more accurately reflect the real surface characteristics than the 2D parameters.


Author(s):  
Sunil Dutta ◽  
NSK Reddy

Manufacturers in different sectors look for materials exhibiting good mechanical properties, high machinability, and superior surface integrity. The machinability of Mg alloys is one of the vital aspects which requires an exhaustive survey during their selection for different applications. The study examines the surface integrity of a fabricated AM alloy (Mg alloy with 7 wt%Al-0.9 wt%Mn) through dry turning. During the experiments, the input variables of turning viz. cutting speed( v), depth of cut (DOC), and feed( f) is altered and applied to the workpiece. The data obtained for the two response variables viz. surface roughness and microhardness accentuate the maximum influence of feed, followed by DOC and speed. For validation a two-stage methodology was adopted; In the first stage, the validation was done with the help of Analysis of variance (ANOVA); the results show the % contribution of feed, speed, and DOC on average roughness is 66.94%, 5.91%, and 27.23% and on microhardness is 47%, 8.3%, and 44.57%, respectively. Subsequently, in the second stage, the surface plots are drawn for both the response variables to ascertain the ANOVA outcomes; the shape of the plots corroborates the experimental and ANOVA results. The study results provide vital insights for parameter selection to get improved results on surface roughness and microhardness during machining of AM alloy.


Author(s):  
Zhanfei Zhang ◽  
Zengqiang Wang ◽  
Wenhu Wang ◽  
Ruisong Jiang ◽  
Yifeng Xiong

High-speed cutting technology has the characteristics of high material removal rate and excellent processing quality. To investigate the surface quality of high-speed cutting Ti6Al4V alloy, the orthogonal cutting experiment is the cutting device based on improved Split-Hopkinson pressure bar carried out with a cutting speed of about 7–16 m/s. Surface roughness, residual stress and three-dimensional surface topography are examined to characterize the surface quality. And the chip geometry parameters are measured to analyze the formation mechanism of surface topography. The result shows that cutting force and surface roughness increase rapidly with the increase in depth of cut. In the meantime, the periodic microwaves appeared on the machined surface, and their amplitudes increase with the increase in depth of cut. However, surface roughness, residual stress and microwave amplitude all decrease with the increase in cutting speed. Moreover, it is found that the evolution trend of chip thickness and surface roughness with cutting parameters is very similar. Therefore, it can be inferred that there is a strong relationship between surface topography and chip morphology.


2017 ◽  
Vol 889 ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
K. Kadirgama ◽  
K. Abou-El-Hossein

Stainless steel was used for many engineering applications. The optimum parameters needs to be identify to save the cutting tool usage and increase productivity. The purpose of this study is to develop the surface roughness mathematical model for AISI 304 stainless steel when milling using TiN (CVD) carbide tool. The milling process was done under various cutting condition which is cutting speed (1500, 2000 and 2500 rpm), feed rate (0.02, 0.03 and 0.04 mm/tooth) and axial depth (0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 mm). The first order model and quadratic model have been developed using Response Surface Method (RSM) with confident level 95%. The prediction models were comparing with the actual experimental results. It is found that quadratic model much fit the experimental result compare to linear model. In general, the results obtained from the mathematical models were in good agreement with those obtained from the machining experiments. Besides that, it is shown that the influence of cutting speed and feed rate are much higher on surface roughness compare to depth of cut. The optimum cutting speed, feed rate and axial depth is 2500 rpm, 0.0212 mm/tooth and 0.3mm respectively. Besides that, continues chip is produced at cutting speed 2500 rpm meanwhile discontinues chip produced at cutting speed 1500 rpm.


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