scholarly journals Effect of Turning Parameters and Reinforcement on the Surface Roughness of Hybrid Aluminium Metal Matrix Composite

Since last two decades, technology has changed rapidly in each industry from consumer goods to aerospace. To quench the thrust of technology advancement of industries, the research community has to develop the novel materials. As a part of the ongoing process of material development and machinability study, present work was carried out to find out the effect of various cutting parameters on surface roughness and machining time of aluminium Hybrid Metal Matrix Composites (AHMMCs). In this study, pure aluminium was used as a matrix material while; B4C, Mg, Ti and Graphite were used as reinforcement. It was observed that 2202 RPM spindle speed, 0.18 mm/rev feed rate and 1.1 mm depth of cut are the optimum turning parameters with PCD insert. While machining of same composites using carbide insert, optimum spindle speed, feed rate and depth of cut are 2091 RPM, 0.19 mm/rev and 1.1 mm respectively. Moreover, PCD insert provides better surface finish compared to carbide coated insert for same cutting conditions. Moreover, the effect of reinforcement particles presence on the surface finish was also investigated and it was concluded that reinforcement presence reduces the surface roughness considerably. Particularly presence of Mg and graphite reduces surface finish significantly.

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (8A) ◽  
pp. 1143-1153
Author(s):  
Yousif K. Shounia ◽  
Tahseen F. Abbas ◽  
Raed R. Shwaish

This research presents a model for prediction surface roughness in terms of process parameters in turning aluminum alloy 1200. The geometry to be machined has four rotational features: straight, taper, convex and concave, while a design of experiments was created through the Taguchi L25 orthogonal array experiments in minitab17 three factors with five Levels depth of cut (0.04, 0.06, 0.08, 0.10 and 0.12) mm, spindle speed (1200, 1400, 1600, 1800 and 2000) r.p.m and feed rate (60, 70, 80, 90 and 100) mm/min. A multiple non-linear regression model has been used which is a set of statistical extrapolation processes to estimate the relationships input variables and output which the surface roughness which prediction outside the range of the data. According to the non-linear regression model, the optimum surface roughness can be obtained at 1800 rpm of spindle speed, feed-rate of 80 mm/min and depth of cut 0.04 mm then the best surface roughness comes out to be 0.04 μm at tapper feature at depth of cut 0.01 mm and same spindle speed and feed rate pervious which gives the error of 3.23% at evolution equation.


2010 ◽  
Vol 447-448 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Mohd Fazuri Abdullah ◽  
Muhammad Ilman Hakimi Chua Abdullah ◽  
Abu Bakar Sulong ◽  
Jaharah A. Ghani

The effects of different cutting parameters, insert nose radius, cutting speed and feed rates on the surface quality of the stainless steel to be use in medical application. Stainless steel AISI 316 had been machined with three different nose radiuses (0.4 mm 0.8 mm, and 1.2mm), three different cutting speeds (100, 130, 170 m/min) and feed rates (0.1, 0.125, 0.16 mm/rev) while depth of cut keep constant at (0.4 mm). It is seen that the insert nose radius, feed rates, and cutting speed have different effect on the surface roughness. The minimum average surface roughness (0.225µm) has been measured using the nose radius insert (1.2 mm) at lowest feed rate (0.1 mm/rev). The highest surface roughness (1.838µm) has been measured with nose radius insert (0.4 mm) at highest feed rate (0.16 mm/rev). The analysis of ANOVA showed the cutting speed is not dominant in processing for the fine surface finish compared with feed rate and nose radius. Conclusion, surface roughness is decreasing with decreasing of the feed rate. High nose radius produce better surface finish than small nose radius because of the maximum uncut chip thickness decreases with increase of nose radius.


Author(s):  
Brian Boswell ◽  
Mohammad Nazrul Islam ◽  
Ian J Davies ◽  
Alokesh Pramanik

The machining of aerospace materials, such as metal matrix composites, introduces an additional challenge compared with traditional machining operations because of the presence of a reinforcement phase (e.g. ceramic particles or whiskers). This reinforcement phase decreases the thermal conductivity of the workpiece, thus, increasing the tool interface temperature and, consequently, reducing the tool life. Determining the optimum machining parameters is vital to maximising tool life and producing parts with the desired quality. By measuring the surface finish, the authors investigated the influence that the three major cutting parameters (cutting speed (50–150 m/min), feed rate (0.10–0.30 mm/rev) and depth of cut (1.0–2.0 mm)) have on tool life. End milling of a boron carbide particle-reinforced aluminium alloy was conducted under dry cutting conditions. The main result showed that contrary to the expectations for traditional machined alloys, the surface finish of the metal matrix composite examined in this work generally improved with increasing feed rate. The resulting surface roughness (arithmetic average) varied between 1.15 and 5.64 μm, with the minimum surface roughness achieved with the machining conditions of a cutting speed of 100 m/min, feed rate of 0.30 mm/rev and depth of cut of 1.0 mm. Another important result was the presence of surface microcracks in all specimens examined by electron microscopy irrespective of the machining condition or surface roughness.


2015 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Benga ◽  
Danut Savu ◽  
Adrian Olei

The paper presents the influence of various cutting regimes on the surface roughness, when a hardened bearing steel has been machined using both ceramic and PCBN cutting tools. There were used different cutting conditions varying cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut in order to determine the influence of each cutting parameter on the surface finish.


2013 ◽  
Vol 773-774 ◽  
pp. 894-901
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yusuf ◽  
M.K.A. Ariffin ◽  
N. Ismail ◽  
S. Sulaiman

Majority of the components of aerospace and automotive vehicles need different machining operations, mainly for the assembly requirements. The components have to present both high dimensional precision and surface quality. This present work is concerned with the effect of cutting parameters (cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut) on the surface roughness and the chip formation in turning process. The machining results are compared with LM6 aluminium alloy and TiC reinforced metal matrix composite under the same cutting conditions and tool geometry. The cutting condition models designed based on the Design of Experiments Response Surface Methodology. The objective of this research is to obtaining the optimum cutting parameters to get a better surface quality and also the chip formation and furthermore does not hazardous to the worker and the machined products quality. Results shows that Surface roughness values of LM6-TiC composite are higher as compared LM6 alloy at similar cutting condition. With increasing in cutting speed improves the surface quality. The surface quality increases with decrease of the feed rate and the depth of cut. There are difference chip forms for LM6 aluminium alloy and Al-TiC composite for a similar of cutting condition. Generally, chip formations of both materials are acceptable and favourable for the worker as well as the products and the tools.


2013 ◽  
Vol 685 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Seyyed Pedram Shahebrahimi ◽  
Abdolrahman Dadvand

One of the most important issues in turning operations is to choose suitable parameters in order to achieve a desired surface finish. The surface finish in machining operation depends on many parameters such as workpiece material, tool material, tool coating, machining parameters, etc. The purpose of this research is to focus on the analysis of optimum cutting parameters to get the lowest surface roughness in turning Titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V with the insert with the standard code DNMG 110404 under dry cutting condition, by the Taguchi method. The turning parameters are evaluated as cutting speed of 14, 20 and 28 m/min, feed rate of 0.12, 0.14 and 0.16 mm/rev, depth of cut of 0.3, 0.6 and 1 mm, each at three levels. The Experiment was designed using the Taguchi method and 9 experiments were conducted by this process. The results are analyzed using analysis of variance method (ANOVA). The results of analysis show that the depth of cut has a significant role to play in producing lower surface roughness that is about 63.33% followed by feed rate about 30.25%, and cutting speed has less contribution on the surface roughness. Also it was realized that with the use of the confirmation test, the surface roughness improved by 227% from its initial state.


2019 ◽  
Vol 895 ◽  
pp. 127-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.J. Vishwas ◽  
M. Naik Gajanan ◽  
B. Sachin ◽  
Roy Abhinaba ◽  
N.P. Puneet ◽  
...  

Aluminum-based metal matrix composites (MMCs) have been suggested due to intense interest from automobile, marine, aerospace and other structural applications owing to their balanced mechanical, physical and chemical properties. MMCs are manufactured in order to meet present demand such as low material density, high mechanical strength and higher wear resistance of the component. Generally,MMCs tend to form rougher surface during machining because of the abrasive nature of hard ceramic particles present in them. Stir casting technique was used for fabrication of this composite which ensures better homogeneity.Furthermore, an attempt has been made in this paper to examine the results on the surface roughness of Al-6082/SiC metal matrix composites (containing 0%, 5% and 10% SiC particles).Focus was spent on parametric optimization of these composites in order to achieve cost-effective machining limits. The machining parameter studies have been carried out through the design of experiments (DoE) under minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) condition and effect of machining parameters such as spindle speed, feed rate and depth of cut on surface roughness was investigated to analyze the influence of reinforcement on surface roughness. In addition, analysis of variance was studied to obtain percentage contribution of machining parameters involved. Also, the surface morphology of the machined surface was studied through a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Distribution of SiC in aluminum alloy is fairly uniform with few clusters. Results of the experiments revealed that most significant turning parameter for surface roughness was spindle speed followed by feed rate and depth of cut. Furthermore, an optimal setting parameter for getting lower surface roughness was presented in confirmation table.


2016 ◽  
Vol 863 ◽  
pp. 57-61
Author(s):  
Jailani Ismail ◽  
Martini Muhamad ◽  
Saiful Bahri Mohamed ◽  
A. Mohd ◽  
Wan Noor Fatihah Mohamad ◽  
...  

The direction of feeding the work piece and cutter rotation determines the type of machining mode either it is up milling or down milling. Each of this machining mode affects the quality of machined surface produced. This paper described the experimental design of down milling operation on a stack of multidirectional CFRP/Al2024. Three cutting parameters were considered namely, spindle speed (N), feed rate (fr) and depth of cut (dc). Two level full factorial design was utilized to plan systematic experimental methodology. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyse the influence and the interaction factors associated to surface quality. The results show that the depth of cut is the most significant factor for Al2024, and for CFRP the spindle speed and feed rate are significant. Surface roughness of CFRP is found to be at 0.594 μm at the setting of N = 11750 rpm, fr = 750 mm/min and dc = 0.255 mm. Meanwhile for Al2024, the surface roughness is found to be at 0.32 μm. The validation test showed average deviation of predicted to actual value surface roughness is 3.11% for CFRP and 3.43% for Al2024.


2019 ◽  
Vol 943 ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Moola Mohan Reddy ◽  
Viviana Yong Chai Nie

This research work considered the high speed milling operation of Inconel 718 using a 4 flute solid carbide end mill tool without the use of coolant. Inconel 718 is a Nickel based Heat Resistance Super Alloy (HRSA) that is vastly used in the aerospace industries due to its excellent corrosion resistance and good mechanical properties. However, Inconel 718 is considered as a difficult-to-cut super alloy, which poses several problems when machining the material. The aim of this work is to investigate the effect and the influence of cutting parameters (feed rate, spindle speed, and depth of cut) on the quality of the machined surface as well as to evaluate the tool wear after machining. This evaluation of the surface roughness was done using a CNC milling machine at various parameters range for the values of feed rate (50-150 mm/min), spindle speed (2000-4000 RPM), and depth of cut (0.05-0.1 mm). The experiment was designed using Response Surface Analysis Method with Central Composite Design (CCD) to optimize the experimentation. The resulting tool wear and surface roughness after high speed machining were then analysed using ANOVA to determine the cutting parameters which is most affecting the surface roughness.


2015 ◽  
Vol 815 ◽  
pp. 268-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Farahlina Johari ◽  
Azlan Mohd Zain ◽  
Noorfa Haszlinna Mustaffa ◽  
Amirmudin Udin

Recently, Firefly Algorithm (FA) has become an important technique to solve optimization problems. Various FA variants have been developed to suit various applications. In this paper, FA is used to optimize machining parameters such as % Volume fraction of SiC (V), cutting speed (S), feed rate (F), depth of cut (D) and machining time (T). The optimal machining cutting parameters estimated by FA that lead to a minimum surface roughness are validated using ANOVA test.


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