scholarly journals Plane Machining by Inner-Jet Electrochemical Milling of TiB2/7050 Aluminum Matrix Composite

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 8087
Author(s):  
Binsen He ◽  
Hansong Li ◽  
Xin Ma ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Shukai Fan

Electrochemical milling (ECM) is an ideal technique for machining thin-walled structural parts of aluminum matrix composites. Adopting a reasonable tool cathode structure, feed rate, and processing method can improve the machining efficiency. In this study, a tool cathode with a reasonable structure was selected through flow field simulation. Then, the material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness were studied using various ECM parameters. Finally, the transverse movement and processing method in which the starting position was rotated 90° were studied, and a plane of 59 × 59 mm was machined. The experimental results show that using an appropriate tool cathode can create a more uniform flow field. The MRR was 168.6 mm3/min and the surface roughness (Ra) was 3.329 µm at a feed rate of 30 mm/min. For machining larger plane structures, a transverse movement of 7 mm is verified to be the most suitable because of the best smoothness in the middle of the two processes. By using the same machining method and rotating the starting position 90°, the flatness of the processing plane decreased from 0.296 mm to 0.251 mm, a reduction of 15.2% compared to that obtained in the first processing.

2011 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 203-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Guang Li ◽  
Jin Guang Du ◽  
Hang Zhao

In view of the present machining status of SiC particle reinforced aluminum matrix composites, the electroplated diamond wheel (80# diamond grit) was used for mill-grinding the SiC particle reinforced aluminum matrix composites and the effect of speed ratio (q) and material removal rate (MRR) on surface roughness was studied based on experiments. The experimental results show that surface roughness almost increases with the increase of speed ratio. At the same material removal rate, surface roughness increases when raising material removal rate by raising feed rate singlely or raising depth of mill-grinding singlely; surface roughness has decreasing trend with raising material removal rate by increasing feed rate and depth of mill-grinding at the same time.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1115 ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Nur Atiqah ◽  
Mohammad Yeakub Ali ◽  
Abdul Rahman Mohamed ◽  
Md. Sazzad Hossein Chowdhury

Micro end milling is one of the most important micromachining process and widely used for producing miniaturized components with high accuracy and surface finish. This paper present the influence of three micro end milling process parameters; spindle speed, feed rate, and depth of cut on surface roughness (Ra) and material removal rate (MRR). The machining was performed using multi-process micro machine tools (DT-110 Mikrotools Inc., Singapore) with poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) as the workpiece and tungsten carbide as its tool. To develop the mathematical model for the responses in high speed micro end milling machining, Taguchi design has been used to design the experiment by using the orthogonal array of three levels L18 (21×37). The developed models were used for multiple response optimizations by desirability function approach to obtain minimum Ra and maximum MRR. The optimized values of Ra and MRR were 128.24 nm, and 0.0463 mg/min, respectively obtained at spindle speed of 30000 rpm, feed rate of 2.65 mm/min, and depth of cut of 40 μm. The analysis of variance revealed that spindle speeds are the most influential parameters on Ra. The optimization of MRR is mostly influence by feed rate. Keywords:Micromilling,surfaceroughness,MRR,PMMA


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Hassan K. Langat ◽  
Fredrick M. Mwema ◽  
James N. Keraita ◽  
Esther T. Akinlabi ◽  
Job M. Wambua ◽  
...  

This study involves the optimization of the milling parameters of unmodified Calotropis Procera fiber-reinforced PLA composite (UCPFRPC). The material is prepared from the combination of 20% Calotropis-Procera and 80% of PLA by weight. The experiments are designed using the Taguchi methodology, where 16 experiments are obtained using the spindle rotational speed, depth of cut, and feed rate as the parameters. These experiments were conducted while obtaining thermal images using an infrared camera and recording the machining time. The change in mass was then determined and the material removal rate computed. The machined workpieces were then investigated for surface roughness. The study shows that the optimal milling parameters in the machining of UCPFRPC for the lowest surface roughness are 400 rpm, 400 mm/min, and 0.2 mm, for the rotational spindle speed, feed rate, and depth of cut. The parameters were 400 rpm, 100 mm/min, and 1.2 mm for the largest MRR, and 400 rpm, 400 mm/min, and 0.2 mm for the least average milling temperature. In all the responses, the depth of cut is the most significant factor.


2019 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 01031 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Jaya Suteja ◽  
Yon Haryono ◽  
Andri Harianto ◽  
Esti Rinawiyanti

Polyacetal is commonly used as bushing material because of its low coefficient of friction and self lubricant characteristics. The polyacetal is machined by using boring process to produce bushing in certain surface roughness. The objectives of this research are to optimize three independent parameters (depth of cut, feed rate and principal cutting edge angle) of boring process of polyacetal using high speed steel tool to achieve the highest material removal rate and the required surface roughness. Response Surface Methodology is used to investigate the influence of the parameters and optimize the boring process. The research shows that the influence of the boring process parameters on polyacetal is similar compared to on metal. The result reveals that the optimum result is achieved by applying the value of depth of cut, feed rate, and principal cutting edge angle is 2.9 × 10–3 m, 0.229 mm rev–1, and 99.1° respectively. By applying these values, the maximum material rate removal achieved in this research is 1263.4 mm3 s–1 and the surface roughness achieved is 1.57 × 10–6 m.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kubilay Aslantas ◽  
Mohd Danish ◽  
Ahmet Hasçelik ◽  
Mozammel Mia ◽  
Munish Gupta ◽  
...  

Micro-turning is a micro-mechanical cutting method used to produce small diameter cylindrical parts. Since the diameter of the part is usually small, it may be a little difficult to improve the surface quality by a second operation, such as grinding. Therefore, it is important to obtain the good surface finish in micro turning process using the ideal cutting parameters. Here, the multi-objective optimization of micro-turning process parameters such as cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut were performed by response surface method (RSM). Two important machining indices, such as surface roughness and material removal rate, were simultaneously optimized in the micro-turning of a Ti6Al4V alloy. Further, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis was done on the cutting tools. The overall results depict that the feed rate is the prominent factor that significantly affects the responses in micro-turning operation. Moreover, the SEM results confirmed that abrasion and crater wear mechanism were observed during the micro-turning of a Ti6Al4V alloy.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1017 ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Fei Hu Zhang ◽  
Kai Wang ◽  
Peng Qiang Fu ◽  
Meng Nan Wu

With silicon particles reinforced aluminum matrix composites with high volume fraction becoming a new hotspot on research and application in the aerospace materials and electronic packaging materials, the machinability of this material needs to be explored. This paper reports research results obtained from the surface grinding experiment of silicon particles reinforced aluminum matrix composites using black silicon carbide wheel, green silicon carbide wheel, white fused alumina wheel and chromium alumina wheel. The issues discussed are grinding force, surface roughness, the comparison of different grinding wheels, the micro-morphology of the work piece. The results showed that the grinding force was related with the grinding depth and the grinding wheel material, the grinding force was increasing as the grinding depth growing. The surface roughness was between 0.29μm and 0.48μm using the silicon carbide wheel. The surface of the work piece had concaves caused by silicon particles shedding and grooves caused by the grains observed by the SEM and CLSM.


2013 ◽  
Vol 701 ◽  
pp. 349-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.B. Saedon ◽  
Paul J.R. Ding J.R. ◽  
M.S.M. Shawal ◽  
H. Husain ◽  
M.S. Meon

Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is a material removal process of electrically conductive materials by the thermo-electric source of energy .This kind of machining extensively used in machining of materials with highly precision productivity. This work presents the machining of titanium alloy (TI-6AL-4V) using wire electro-discharge machining with brass wire diameter 0.25mm.The objective of this work is to study the influence of three machining parameters namely peak current (IP), feed rate (FC) and wire tension (WT) to material removal rate and surface roughness followed by suggesting the best operating parameters towards good surface finish. A full factorial experimental design was used with variation of peak current, feed rate and wire tension, with results evaluated using analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques. Parameter levels were chosen based on best practice and results from preliminary testing. Main effects plots and percentage contribution ratios (PCR) are included for the main factors and their interactions. Peak current was shown to have the greatest effect on surface roughness (33% PCR).


Author(s):  
Mostafa A. Abdullah  , Ahmed B. Abdulwahhab   ,   Atheer R.

In the curents study aimed to assess the effects of cutting conditions  (spindle speed, feed rate, tool diameter) parameters as input impact on material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (Ra) as output of steel (AISI 1015). A number of drilling experiments were conducted using the L9 orthogonal array on conventional drilling machine with use feed rate (0.038,0.076,0.203) mm/rev and spindle speed (132,550,930) rpm and tool diameter (11,15,20) mm HSS twist drills under dry cutting conditions. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed to determine the most significant control factors affecting on surface roughness and MRR. The result shown the tool diameter the important factor effect with (64.08%) and (76.12%) on MRR and surface roughness respectively.


This study uses Taguchi methodology and Gray Relational Analysis approach to explore the optimization of face milling process parameters for Al 6061 T6 alloy.Surface Roughness (Ra), Material Removal Rate (MRR) has been identified as the objective of performance and productivity.The tests were performed by selecting cutting speed (mm / min), feed rate (mm / rev) and cutting depth (mm) at three settings on the basis of Taguchi's L9 orthogonal series.The grey relational approach was being used to establish a multiobjective relationship between both the parameters of machining and the characteristics of results. To find the optimum values of parameters in the milling operation, the response list and plots are used and found to be Vc2-f1-d3. To order to justify the optimum results, the confirmation tests are performed.The machining process parameters for milling were thus optimized in this research to achieve the combined goals such as low surface roughness and high material removal rate on Aluminum 6061 t6.It was concluded that depth of cut is the most influencing parameter followed by feed rate and cutting velocity.


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