Use of the toolholder with the oriented stiffness for ultrasonic turning
An effective way of processing difficult-to-machine materials is ultrasonic cutting, which is carried out by applying ultrasonic vibrations to the movement of the cutter and contributes to a significant reduction in cutting force and increase processing productivity. The article presents the results of research on the efficiency of using a new device for ultrasonic cutting with an electrostrictive vibrating drive. The source of ultrasonic vibrations is an electrostrictive vibratory drive, which provides oscillations in the range of 10 - 20 kHz with amplitude of 10 - 15 microns. Experimental studies have confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed design of the toolholder to transmit the wave of ultrasonic vibrations almost perpendicular to the axis of the vibratory drive, which allows you to unload the vibrating drive from the cutting force and use vibration pulses only to deform elastic elements by the amplitude of ultrasonic vibrations. The device provides conditions for processing of difficult-to-process materials, allows increasing accuracy of processing of details, to reduce roughness of the processed surfaces and to increase productivity of processing.