Role of energy consumption, cutting tool and workpiece materials towards environmentally conscious machining: A comprehensive review

Author(s):  
Salman Pervaiz ◽  
Sathish Kannan ◽  
Ibrahim Deiab ◽  
Hossam Kishawy

Metal-cutting process deals with the removal of material using the shearing operation with the help of hard cutting tools. Machining operations are famous in the manufacturing sector due to their capability to manufacture tight tolerances and high dimensional accuracy while simultaneously maintaining the cost-effectiveness for higher production levels. As metal-cutting processes consume a great amount of input resources and generate some material-based waste streams, these processes are highly criticized due to their high and negative environmental impacts. Researchers in the metal-cutting sector are currently exploring and benchmarking different activities and best practices to make the cutting operation environment friendly in nature. These eco-friendly practices mainly cover the wide range of activities directly or indirectly associated with the metal-cutting operation. Most of the literature for sustainable metal-cutting activities revolves around the sustainable lubrication techniques to minimize the negative influence of cutting fluids on the environment. However, there is a need to enlarge the assessment domain for the metal-cutting process and other directly and indirectly associated practices such as enhancing sustainability through innovative methods for workpiece and cutting tool materials, and approaches to optimize energy consumption should also be explored. The aim of this article is to explore the role of energy consumption and the influence of workpiece and tool materials towards the sustainability of machining process. The article concludes that sustainability of the machining process can be improved by incorporating different innovative approaches related to the energy and tool–workpiece material consumptions.

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunday J. Ojolo ◽  
Olumuwiya Agunsoye ◽  
Oluwole Adesina ◽  
Gbeminiyi M. Sobamowo

Temperature field in metal cutting process is one of the most important phenomena in machining process. Temperature rise in machining directly or indirectly determines other cutting parameters such as tool life, tool wear, thermal deformation, surface quality and mechanics of chip formation. The variation in temperature of a cutting tool in end milling is more complicated than any other machining operation especially in high speed machining. It is therefore very important to investigate the temperature distribution on the cutting tool–work piece interface in end milling operation. The determination of the temperature field is carried out by the analysis of heat transfer in metal cutting zone. Most studies previously carried out on the temperature distribution model analysis were based on analytical model and with the used of conventional machining that is continuous cutting in nature. The limitations discovered in the models and validated experiments include the oversimplified assumptions which affect the accuracy of the models. In metal cutting process, thermo-mechanical coupling is required and to carry out any temperature field determination successfully, there is need to address the issue of various forces acting during cutting and the frictional effect on the tool-work piece interface. Most previous studies on the temperature field either neglected the effect of friction or assumed it to be constant. The friction model at the tool-work interface and tool-chip interface in metal cutting play a vital role in influencing the modelling process and the accuracy of predicted cutting forces, stress, and temperature distribution. In this work, mechanistic model was adopted to establish the cutting forces and also a new coefficient of friction was also established. This can be used to simulate the cutting process in order to enhance the machining quality especially surface finish and monitor the wear of tool.


1960 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 347-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenton L. Bagley ◽  
Roy Mennell

The effects of lead addition in alloy steel upon the metal-cutting process were explored over a wide range of conditions. In particular, a range of cutting speeds (from 50 to 800 fpm) and workpiece hardness (from 230 to 450 Bhn) were investigated on one work-piece material (4340) using principally a carbide (C-6) cutting tool. Orthogonal (two-dimensional) data was taken to describe the metal-cutting process, and tool-life data were obtained by running a typical production tool to failure at the various cutting conditions. Several mechanisms to explain experimental results, including lead acting as a lubricant, are discussed.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor P. Astakhov ◽  
A. A. Komarovskiy

Abstract Everyday practice of cutting process planning requires reliable cutting force estimates, which currently can be obtained only from process-dependent machinability databases. The greatest obstacle to developing a more basic, efficient approach is a lack of understanding of material behavior under unique deformation conditions of cutting. The metal cutting process has been defined by the authors earlier as the purposeful fracture of workpiece material and, therefore, a new way to minimize the energy consumption per unit volume of the layer to be removed in cutting should be revealed in order to predict metal cutting performance. Unfortunately, the traditional mechanical metallurgy has too little to be used for such a purpose. This paper deals with practical applications of the equation of state of a solid to the metal cutting process. It is shown theoretically and proven experimentally that the energy consumed in cutting can be effectively controlled by applying external force fields to the workpiece.


2012 ◽  
Vol 268-270 ◽  
pp. 496-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Fan ◽  
Xin Liu

The cutting principle of high speed machining is analyzed, and the key technology of building high speed cutting finite element simulation model is systemic explained. By simplifying high speed cutting process, using the fastest solution of nonlinear finite element software ADINA which is development in recent years to establish the three dimensional finite element model of high speed metal cutting, and to predict the cutting force of different cutting tool geometry parameter combination of high speed cutting process, the high speed cutting processing cutting tool analysis and processing parameter optimization analysis method are put forwarded, so as to provide a new tool for the research of high speed machining process and provide basis for the cutting tool choice during high-speed nc cutting process.


Author(s):  
Thomas McLeay ◽  
Michael S Turner ◽  
Keith Worden

The most common machining processes of turning, drilling, milling and grinding concern the removal of material from a workpiece using a cutting tool. The performance of machining processes depends on a number of key method parameters, including cutting tool, workpiece material, machine configuration, fixturing, cutting parameters and tool path trajectory. The large number of possible configurations can make it difficult to implement fault detection systems without having to train the system to a particular method or fault type. The research of this article applies a novel method to detect the changing state of a process over time in order to detect faulty machining conditions such as worn tools and cutting depth changes. Unlike studies in the previous literature in this domain, an unsupervised learning method is used, so that the method can be applied in production to unfamiliar processes or fault conditions. In the case presented, novelty detection is applied to a multivariate sensor feature data set obtained from a milling process. Sensor modalities include acoustic emission, vibration and spindle power and time and frequency domain features are employed. The Mahalanobis squared-distance is used to measure discordancy of each new data point, and values that exceed a principled novelty threshold are categorised as fault conditions.


2015 ◽  
Vol 727-728 ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Jie Yu ◽  
Di Di Wang ◽  
Xin Chen

Cutting process is a typical non-linear deformation problem, which involves material non-linear, geometry non-linear and the state non-linear problem. Based on the elastic-plastic material deformation theory, this theme established a strain hardening model. Build the simulation model of two-dimensional orthogonal cutting process of workpiece and tool by the finite element method (FEM), and simulate the changes of cutting force and the process of chip formation in the machining process, and analyzed the cutting force, the situation of chip deformation. The method is more efficient and effective than the traditional one, and provides a new way for metal cutting theory, research of material cutting performance and cutting tool product development.


Author(s):  
Vishnu Vardhan Posa ◽  
Murali Sundaram

Abstract Laser beam machining (LBM) is a versatile process that can shape a wide range of engineering materials such as metals, ceramics, polymers, and composite materials. However, machining of glass materials by LBM is a challenge as most of the laser energy is not absorbed by the surface. In this study, an attempt has been made to increase the absorptivity of the glass material by using a coating on the surface of the material. Glass has been used in this study because of its extensive applications in the micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems. The optimal machining depends on both laser parameters and properties of the workpiece material. There are number of laser parameters that can be varied in the laser machining process. It is difficult to find optimal laser parameters due to the mutual interaction of laser parameters. A statistical study based on design of experiment (DoE) has been made to study the effect of coating and parameters like laser power, laser scanning speed, angle of inclination of the workpiece on depth of the slot, width of the slot, aspect ratio, and material removal rate (MRR) in the laser machining process using 2k factorial design and analysis of variance (ANOVA). On an average, four times increase in depth of the slot, two times increase in width of the slot and seven times increase in the MRR were observed in the glass samples with coating when compared to uncoated glass work samples.


2006 ◽  
Vol 532-533 ◽  
pp. 729-732
Author(s):  
Lan Li ◽  
En Fu Liu ◽  
Qing Su Jin

The modern manufacturing industry requires the cutting process to reduce the quantity of pollutants, to ensure the product quality, to make good use of the resource and energy, and to satisfy the need of productivity and economy at the same time. The cutter reasonable selection is one important method of improving cutting capability. Therefore, it can solve efficiently the new problem in machining process to think of synthetic effect with quality, economy, resource and environment at the same time. Furthermore, because the process in metal cutting is variable and the influence of most factors can not be confirmed, the fuzzy assessment based on fuzzy integrate can select more justified cutter in cutting process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (04) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Rajeev Sharma ◽  
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Binit Kumar Jha ◽  
Vipin Pahuja ◽  
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...  

Todays, due to the environmental concerns, growing contamination and pollution regulations, the demand for renewable and biodegradable cutting fluids is increasing day by day. Environmental friendly machining is one of the latest approach which is economical and also eco-friendly that improve the machinability. Different types of environmental friendly machining techniques are available e.g. MQL machining, cryogenic machining, dry machining and high pressure cooling approach. In this article, an attempt is made regarding environmental friendly machining processing, including different types of cutting fluids and machining techniques. The Knowledge of cutting fluid and its processing conditions is of critically importance to maximize the efficiency of cutting fluids in any machining process. In general, the generation of heat in the cutting zone due to friction at the tool-chip interface and the friction between the safety surface of the tool and the work piece is always the deciding factor on the quality of the work piece surface. In any manufacturing industries or company two factors play important role in machinability and productivity e.g. surface quality and tool wear. The main objective of this review article that analysis the different environmental friendly machining techniques and encourages the cooling approach in metal cutting operation. So finally, after the literature survey found that environmental friendly machining approach is cost effective machining process and also eco-friendly machining process.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Kasijanto Kasijanto ◽  
Sadar Wahjudi ◽  
Listiyono Listiyono ◽  
Muhammad Fakhruddin

Metal cutting process (cutting process) is to cut metal to get the shape and size and quality of the planned cutting surface. The metal cutting process is carried out with special tools, according to the type of cutting process. So the tools for one process cannot be used in another process, even for similar processes, the tools cannot be exchanged if the cutting plans are not the same. Lathe process is a machining process to produce cylindrical machine parts which are carried out using a Lathe. Its basic form can be defined as the machining process of the outer surface of cylindrical or flat lathe objects. Polyvinyl Chloride, commonly abbreviated as PVC, is the third-order thermoplastic polymer in terms of total usage in the world, after Polyethylene (PE) and Polypropylene (PP). Worldwide, more than 50% of PVC produced is used in construction. PVC is produced by polymerizing vinyl chloride monomers (CH2 = CHCl). Because 57% of its mass is chlorine, PVC is the polymer that uses the lowest petroleum feedstock among other polymers. This research follows up the selection of configuration of the lathe machining process using plastic work pieces. In this study, Maximat V13 lathe and PVC type plastic were used. The variation of machining processes are spindle rotation (320, 540, and 900 rpm), feeding speed (0.07, 0.14, and 0.28), the use of tool types (carbide and HSS) and cooling (without cooling, coolant, and oil). So, with this research, it is expected that the optimal parameters in determining the configuration of the lathe machining process on a PVC work piece to produce a good turning surface can be achieved  


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