Study on the machining process of micro V-shaped groove by using a revolving tip

Author(s):  
Bo Xue ◽  
Yongda Yan ◽  
Gaojie Ma ◽  
Zhenjiang Hu

This paper proposed a machining method for micro V-shaped grooves, which was achieved by introducing the revolving trajectory on the basis of tip scratching process. By coordinating the revolving direction and the tip orientation, four kinds of revolving scratches were developed which had the revolving radii larger than the groove depths. It was found that there were two revolving scratches among these four being able to eliminate the side burrs and produce much smaller cutting forces during machining grooves compared to the traditional scratch, respectively named as the up-milling of face-forward and the down-milling of edge-forward. By considering the tip geometry in the traditional scratching process, the burr formation has been studied which was mainly affected by the effect of chip interference and the amount of uncut chip thickness. By analyzing the machining trajectory, the undeformed chip, the machined surface and the chip morphology, the reason why the up-milling of face-forward and the down-milling of edge-forward had good performances for machining V-grooves was elucidated in detail. Meanwhile, the differences between these two revolving scratches were discussed, and their advantages and disadvantages were also given.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Luo ◽  
Qi Yao

During all the machining process, the milling cutter has to enter the workpiece either from the boundary or from the machined/unmachined surface, due to the change of machining sequence/cutter or the variation of cutting depth. Unlike the stable cutting process, the contact between cutter and machined workpiece changes significantly in the entering process, resulting in vibration and leaving marks on the machined surface. Aiming at in-depth understanding the mechanism of this phenomenon, this paper presents a novel time-domain simulation model to predict the dynamic response of the cutter during the entering process. Two typical entering conditions, including entering from the workpiece boundary and from the machined surface along the cycle path, are modeled based on the dynamic cutting force calculation by considering dynamic undeformed chip thickness created by consequential teeth engagement. Then, it is synthesized with the time-varying immersion angle and exit angle of cutter teeth in the entering process to simulate the dynamic cutting forces and cutter vibrations. To validate the developed model, eight conditions in boundary entering and six conditions in cycle path entering are carried out by comparing the collected data and the predicted results. Results show that the developed model could precisely predict the dynamic cutting forces and cutter vibration, especially the forces and displacements under the varied cutter-workpiece contact.


Author(s):  
Vivek Bajpai ◽  
Ineon Lee ◽  
Hyung Wook Park

Titanium alloys are well-known material because of the excellent mechanical/chemical properties, corrosion resistance and light weight. These alloys are widely used in the high performance applications such as; aerospace, aviation, bio-implants, turbine blades etc. Machining is commonly used to create products out of Ti alloys. Despite of good material properties, Ti alloys have low thermal conductivity, poor machinability, burr formation, high machining temperature, tool wear and poor machinability. The tool wear and high machining temperature can be controlled through coolant. Cryogenic fluid (liquid nitrogen) is a common material used as coolant in various machining process. The current work is focused on the modeling of cryogenic machining on titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V). Dry machining and cryogenic machining processes are modeled for the chip formation and cutting forces in 2D. Experimental works have been performed to validate the model based on the cutting forces and chip morphology. It is showed that the model is capturing the process, evident by the cutting forces and the chip morphology. The error in prediction is limited to 18%. Model showed that the cutting forces are increasing in cryogenic machining due to the increased strength of the workpiece at low temperature. Chip formation is well captured by the current model. Shear band width have been captured in dry machining. Chip curling has been captured at dry and cryogenic machining. It is expected that the model can further useful in the selection of cryogenic process parameter, such as, flow rate, application techniques etc.


Author(s):  
Rusnaldy ◽  
Tae Jo Ko ◽  
Hee Sool Kim

There is a lack of fundamental understanding of micro-end-milling of silicon wafer, specifically basic understanding of material removal mechanism, cutting forces and machined surface integrity in micro scale machining of silicon. It is necessary to determine the forces generated during the cutting operation due to chip thickness along with tool geometry, tool material properties and workpiece properties because cutting forces will provide vital information for the design, modeling and control of the machining process. In this study, cutting force data can be used to determine cutting regime machining of silicon wafer.


Author(s):  
Nejah Tounsi ◽  
Tahany El-Wardany

Abstract Part I of these two-part papers will investigate the effect of three FEM representations of the milling process on the prediction of chip morphology and residual stresses (RS), when down-milling small uncut chips with thickness in the micrometer range and finite cutting edge radius. They are: i) orthogonal cutting with the mean uncut chip thickness t, obtained by averaging the uncut chip thickness over the cutting length, ii) orthogonal cutting with variable t, which characterizes the down-milling process and which is imposed on a flat surface of the final workpiece, and iii) modelling the true kinematics of the down milling process. The appropriate constitutive model is identified through 2D FEM investigation of the effects of selected constitutive equations and failure models on the prediction of RS and chip morphology in the dry orthogonal machining of Ti6Al4V and comparison to experimental measurements. The chip morphology and RS prediction capability of these representations is assessed using the available set of experimental data. Models featuring variable chip thickness have revealed the transition from continuous chip formation to the rubbing mode and have improved the predictions of residual stresses. The use of sequential cuts is necessary to converge toward experimental data.


2011 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riaz Muhammad ◽  
Agostino Maurotto ◽  
Anish Roy ◽  
Vadim V. Silberschmidt

Analysis of the cutting process in machining of advanced alloys, which are typically difficult-to-machine materials, is a challenge that needs to be addressed. In a machining operation, cutting forces causes severe deformations in the proximity of the cutting edge, producing high stresses, strain, strain-rates and temperatures in the workpiece that ultimately affect the quality of the machined surface. In the present work, cutting forces generated in a vibro-impact and hot vibro-impact machining process of Ti-based alloy, using an in-house Ultrasonically Assisted Turning (UAT) setup, are studied. A three-dimensional, thermo-mechanically coupled, finite element model was developed to study the thermal and mechanical processes in the cutting zone for the various machining processes. Several advantages of ultrasonically assisted turning and hot ultrasonically assisted turning are demonstrated when compared to conventional turning.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinmaya PADHY ◽  
Pariniti SINGH

Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is currently a widely used lubricating technique during machining, in which minimum amount of lubricant in the form of mist is delivered to the machining interface, thus helps to reduce the negative effects caused to the environment and human health. Further, to enhance the productivity of machining process specifically for hard-to-cut materials, nano cutting fluid (suitably mixed nano materials with conventional cutting fluid) is used as an alternative method to conventional lubrication (wet) in MQL. In this study, h-BN nano cutting fluid was formulated with 0.1% vol. concentration of h-BN in conventional cutting fluid (Servo- ‘S’) for NCF-MQL technique and its tribological behaviors on machining(turning) performance of Inconel 625 were studied and compared with other lubricating conditions (dry, wet, MQL conventional). The tribological effects were analyzed in terms of tool wear analysis, chip morphology along with statistical analysis for machined surface and evolved cutting forces during machining. The optimal input machining parameters for experiments were defined by the use of Taguchi and Grey relational based multi response optimization technique. Finally, the tribological study shows that the use of h-BN NCF-MQL is a viable and sustainable option for improving machining performance of hard- to- cut material like Inconel 625.


Author(s):  
Zied Sahraoui ◽  
Kamel Mehdi ◽  
Moez Ben Jaber

Nowadays, industrialists, especially those in the automobile and aeronautical transport fields, seek to lighten the weight of different product components by developing new materials lighter than those usually used or by replacing some massive parts with thin-walled hollow parts. This lightening operation is carried out in order to reduce the energy consumption of the manufactured products while guaranteeing optimal mechanical properties of the components and increasing quality and productivity. To achieve these objectives, some research centers have focused their work on the development and characterization of new light materials and some other centers have focused their work on the analysis and understanding of the encountered problems during the machining operation of thin-walled parts. Indeed, various studies have shown that the machining process of thin-walled parts differs from that of rigid parts. This difference comes from the dynamic behavior of the thin-walled parts which is different from that of the massive parts. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to first highlight some of these problems through the measurement and analysis of the cutting forces and vibrations of tubular parts with different thicknesses in AU4G1T351 aluminum alloy during the turning process. The experimental results highlight that the dynamic behavior of turning process is governed by large radial deformations of the thin-walled workpieces and the influence of this behavior on the variations of the chip thickness and cutting forces is assumed to be preponderant. The second objective is to provide manufacturers with a practical solution to the encountered vibration problems by improving the structural damping of thin-walled parts by additional damping. It is found that the additional structural damping increases the stability of the cutting process and reduces considerably the vibrations amplitudes.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 474-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Liu ◽  
R. E. DeVor ◽  
S. G. Kapoor

In micromachining, the uncut chip thickness is comparable or even less than the tool edge radius and as a result a chip will not be generated if the uncut chip thickness is less than a critical value, viz., the minimum chip thickness. The minimum chip thickness effect significantly affects machining process performance in terms of cutting forces, tool wear, surface integrity, process stability, etc. In this paper, an analytical model has been developed to predict the minimum chip thickness values, which are critical for the process model development and process planning and optimization. The model accounts for the effects of thermal softening and strain hardening on the minimum chip thickness. The influence of cutting velocity and tool edge radius on the minimum chip thickness has been taken into account. The model has been experimentally validated with 1040 steel and Al6082-T6 over a range of cutting velocities and tool edge radii. The developed model has then been applied to investigate the effects of cutting velocity and edge radius on the normalized minimum chip thickness for various carbon steels with different carbon contents and Al6082-T6.


Author(s):  
Igor Kiselev ◽  
Sergey Voronov

The paper is devoted for the analysis of the dynamics effect on the 5-axis milling process of flexible details. The integrated model of milling dynamics composed by block principle in the paper is presented. The model consist of: 1) dynamical model of tool; 2) dynamical model of machined detail based on Finite Element Method (FEM); 3) phenomenological model of cutting forces and 4) algorithm of geometry modeling for instant machined chip thickness calculation. Regeneration mechanism of cutting and calculation of the machined surface are into this algorithm embedded. The elaborated model is adapted for 5-axis processing of the profiled details with 3-D complex geometry. Alteration of workpiece dynamic characteristics while the allowance removal is considered by the special algorithm of FEM grid changing based on the results of cutting geometry modeling. The results of modeling give us opportunity determine cutting forces, estimate the machined surface quality, calculate the magnitude and the character of tool and detail vibrations under the specified cutting conditions. The conception of increasing the process quality and the machinability for 3-D shaped details machining is offered in the paper. Applying the specified efficient conditions the undesired dynamical effects can be excluded on the base of the results of multi-variant simulation for milling dynamics varying the technological parameters at the different region of the processing route.


2005 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Samuel ◽  
R. E. DeVor ◽  
S. G. Kapoor ◽  
K. J. Hsia

The machinability of a polycarbonate nanocomposite containing multiwalled carbon nanotubes is investigated and contrasted with its base polymer and with a conventional carbon fiber composite. The material microstructures are characterized using transmission electron and scanning electron microscopy methods. Micro-endmilling experiments are conducted on the three materials. Chip morphology, machined surface characteristics, and the nature of the cutting forces are employed as machinability measures for comparative purposes. Polycarbonate chips are seen to transition from being discontinuous to continuous as the feed-per-tooth (FPT) increases, while, at all FPT values the nanocomposite is seen to form comparatively thicker continuous chips. The nanocomposite and the carbon fiber composite are seen to have the lowest and the highest magnitudes, respectively, for both the surface roughness and cutting forces. Shearing along the nanotube-polymer interface and better thermal conductivity are speculated to be the mechanisms responsible for the observations seen in the nanocomposite.


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