Performance of Cutting Tools in High Speed Milling of SiCp/Al Composites

2012 ◽  
Vol 591-593 ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Jun Wang ◽  
Ming Qiang Pan ◽  
Tao Chen ◽  
Ji Zhu Liu ◽  
Li Guo Chen

This paper presents an experimental study in milling of SiCp/Al composites on a high precision machine by using chemical vapor deposition(CVD) diamond coated tools and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools. The tool wear was observed and measured by an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results show that the coating rupture causes the failure of the CVD diamond coated tools. The PCD tools’ wear is less. At the relatively low cutting speed, the wear pattern of PCD tools is the flank wear which caused by the abrasion of SiC particles. Due to the low cutting temperature, the graphitization of PCD tools does not happen. The wear mechanism of PCD tools will be the abrasive and adhesive wear.

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Guangxian Li ◽  
Ge Wu ◽  
Wencheng Pan ◽  
Rizwan Abdul Rahman Rashid ◽  
Suresh Palanisamy ◽  
...  

Polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools are widely used in industry due to their outstanding physical properties. However, the ultra-high hardness of PCD significantly limits the machining efficiency of conventional abrasive grinding processes, which are utilized to manufacture PCD tools. In contrast, electrical discharge grinding (EDG) has significantly higher machining efficiency because of its unique material removal mechanism. In this study, the quality and performance of PCD tools machined by abrasive grinding and EDG were investigated. The performance of cutting tools consisted of different PCD materials was tested by high-speed turning of titanium alloy Ti6Al4V. Flank wear and crater wear were investigated by analyzing the worn profile, micro morphology, chemical decomposition, and cutting forces. The results showed that an adhesive-abrasive process dominated the processes of flank wear and crater wear. Tool material loss in the wear process was caused by the development of thermal cracks. The development of PCD tools’ wear made of small-sized diamond grains was a steady adhesion-abrasion process without any catastrophic damage. In contrast, a large-scale fracture happened in the wear process of PCD tools made of large-sized diamond grains. Adhesive wear was more severe on the PCD tools machined by EDG.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 3266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Li ◽  
Guangming Zheng ◽  
Xiang Cheng ◽  
Xianhai Yang ◽  
Rufeng Xu ◽  
...  

The cutting performance of cutting tools in high-speed machining (HSM) is an important factor restricting the machined surface integrity of the workpiece. The HSM of AISI 4340 is carried out by using coated tools with TiN/TiCN/TiAlN multi-coating, TiAlN + TiN coating, TiCN + NbC coating, and AlTiN coating, respectively. The cutting performance evaluation of the coated tools is revealed by the chip morphology, cutting force, cutting temperature, and tool wear. The results show that the serration and shear slip of the chips become more clear with the cutting speed. The lower cutting force and cutting temperature are achieved by the TiN/TiCN/TiAlN multi-coated tool. The flank wear was the dominant wear form in the milling process of AISI 4340. The dominant wear mechanisms of the coated tools include the crater wear, coating chipping, adhesion, abrasion, and diffusion. In general, a TiN/TiCN/TiAlN multi-coated tool is the most suitable tool for high-speed milling of AISI 4340, due to the lower cutting force, the lower cutting temperature, and the high resistance of the element diffusion.


Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 5677
Author(s):  
Elshaimaa Abdelnasser ◽  
Azza Barakat ◽  
Samar Elsanabary ◽  
Ahmed Nassef ◽  
Ahmed Elkaseer

This article presents the results of an experimental investigation into the machinability of Ti6Al4V alloy during hard turning, including both conventional and high-speed machining, using polycrystalline diamond (PCD) inserts. A central composite design of experiment procedure was followed to examine the effects of variable process parameters; feed rate, cutting speed and depth of cut (each at five levels) and their interaction effects on surface roughness and cutting temperature as process responses. The results revealed that cutting temperature increased with increasing cutting speed and decreasing feed rate in both conventional and high-speed machining. It was found that high-speed machining showed an average increase in cutting temperature of 65% compared with conventional machining. Nevertheless, high-speed machining showed better performance in terms of lower surface roughness despite using higher feed rates compared to conventional machining. High-speed machining of Ti6Al4V showed an improvement in surface roughness of 11% compared with conventional machining, with a 207% increase in metal removal rate (MRR) which offered the opportunity to increase productivity. Finally, an inverse relationship was verified between generated cutting temperature and surface roughness. This was attributed mainly to the high cutting temperature generated, softening, and decreasing strength of the material in the vicinity of the cutting zone which in turn enabled smoother machining and reduced surface roughness.


2011 ◽  
Vol 381 ◽  
pp. 16-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Guo Wang ◽  
Biao Liu ◽  
Jiong Yi Song ◽  
Xiang Ping Yan ◽  
Kang Mei Wu

Polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools have been obtained increasing application in aluminum alloy processing industry due to the excellent surface finish and tool life comparing with other traditional tools. Investigation of the wear mechanism of PCD milling tool for machining Al-Si alloy at cutting speed of 5000m/min (n=12732r/min) has been performed. The wear morphology of tool has been studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS). Results show that PCD milling tool suffers from abrasive wear and diffusion wear on the flank face and adhesive wear on the rake face in the machining process.


2009 ◽  
Vol 407-408 ◽  
pp. 710-713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Inoue ◽  
Masahiro Hagino ◽  
Masao Matsui ◽  
Li Wei Gu

This paper presents the results of groove and end face milling of CFRP materials by high speed steel end mill tools and polycrystalline diamond (PCD) and TiAlN-coated tungsten carbide end mill tools. The experimental results of end-face milling show carbon fibers on the surface of all the tools used in this experiment. However, the carbon fibers do not occur in groove milling when using PCD coated tools. In addition, the distribution of the carbon fibers of CFRP composites changed with the cutting temperature and cutting force. The overall result shows PCD-coated tools have longer tool life compared to high speed steel and TiAlN-coated end mill tools in processing carbon reinforced plastic composites.


2013 ◽  
Vol 589-590 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Ke Ru Jiao ◽  
Shu Tao Huang ◽  
Li Fu Xu ◽  
Li Zhou

By 3D finite element simulation for temperature field and tool wear of SiCp/Al metal matrix composites under the condition of high speed milling, we draw a conclusion that the most significant influence on cutting temperature is cutting speed, less is feed rates, the minimum is cutting depth, which is exactly the same as the influence law of ordinary metal cutting. In the course of high-speed milling SiCp/Al by PCD tools, the higher the cutting speed is, the bigger wearing depth of tools is. When v=300m/min, ap=0.5 mm, f=0.3 mm/r, the transient temperature in the milling would reach to 619°C. Such a high temperature can cause graphitizing wear of the PCD tools. Because of the effectiveness of the simulation’s conclusion, it is vital significance to the reasonable options of cutting parameters and the prolongation of tool life.


2016 ◽  
Vol 836-837 ◽  
pp. 168-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Fei Ge ◽  
Hai Xiang Huan ◽  
Jiu Hua Xu

High-speed milling tests were performed on vol. (5%-8%) TiCp/TC4 composite in the speed range of 50-250 m/min using PCD tools to nvestigate the cutting temperature and the cutting forces. The results showed that radial depth of cut and cutting speed were the two significant influences that affected the cutting forces based on the Taguchi prediction. Increasing radial depth of cut and feed rate will increase the cutting force while increasing cutting speed will decrease the cutting force. Cutting force increased less than 5% when the reinforcement volume fraction in the composites increased from 0% to 8%. Radial depth of cut was the only significant influence factor on the cutting temperature. Cutting temperature increased with the increasing radial depth of cut, feed rate or cutting speed. The cutting temperature for the titanium composites was 40-90 °C higher than that for the TC4 matrix. However, the cutting temperature decreased by 4% when the reinforcement's volume fraction increased from 5% to 8%.


2014 ◽  
Vol 800-801 ◽  
pp. 576-579
Author(s):  
Lin Hua Hu ◽  
Ming Zhou ◽  
Yu Liang Zhang

In this work, cutting experiments were carried out on titanium alloy Ti6Al4V by using polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tools to investigate the effects of the tool geometries and cutting parameters on machined surface roughness. Experimental results show machined surface roughness decreases with increases in the flank angle, tool nose radius and cutting speed within a limited range respectively, and begins to increase as the factors reaches to certain values respectively. And machined surface roughness decreases with increases in feed rate and cutting depth respectively.


Author(s):  
Mitsuru Hasegawa ◽  
Tatsuya Sugihara

Abstract In cutting of Ti-6Al-4V alloy, the cutting speed is limited since a high cutting temperature leads to severe tool wear and short tool life, resulting in poor production efficiency. On the other hand, some recent literature has reported that various beneficial effects can be provided by forming micro-textures on the tool surface in the metal cutting process. In this study, in order to achieve high-performance machining of Ti-6Al-4V, we first investigated the mechanism of the tool failure process for a cemented carbide cutting tool in high-speed turning of Ti-6Al-4V. Based on the results, cutting tools with micro textured surfaces were developed under the consideration of a cutting fluid action. A series of experiments showed that the textured rake face successfully decreases the cutting temperature, resulting in a significant suppression of both crater wear and flank wear. In addition, the temperature zone where the texture tool is effective in terms of the tool life in the Ti-6Al-4V cutting was discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 840 ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afifah Mohd Ali ◽  
Norazharuddin Shah Abdullah ◽  
Manimaran Ratnam ◽  
Zainal Arifin Ahmad

The purpose of this research is to find the effects of cutting speed on the performance of the ZTA ceramic cutting tool. Three types of ZTA tools used in this study which are ZTA-MgO(micro), ZTA-MgO(nano) and ZTA-MgO-CeO2. Each of them were fabricated by wet mixing the materials, then dried at 100°C before crushed into powder. The powder was pressed into rhombic shape and sintered at 1600°C at 4 hours soaking time to yield dense body. To study the effect of the cutting speed on fabricated tool, machining was performed on the stainless steel 316L at 1500 to 2000 rpm cutting speed. Surface roughness of workpiece was measured and the tool wears were analysed by using optical microscope and Matlab programming where two types of wear measured i.e. nose wear and crater wear. Result shows that by increasing the cutting speed, the nose wear and crater wear increased due to high abrasion. However, surface roughness decreased due to temperature rise causing easier chip formation leaving a good quality surface although the tool wear is increased.


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