Chip morphology in high speed precision turning process of hardened steel GCr15

The main characteristic of hard turning process is easy to produce serrated chip. The chip deformation will impact greatly turning process. It is very important to analysis the chip formation and morphology during precision turning process of hardened steel. The deformation mechanism of serrated chip formation process and its chip morphology of chips produced during precision turning process of the hardened steel GCr15 is studied in hard cutting experiment by the methods such as numerical simulation of two-dimensional finite element analysis of turning, chip cross-sectional microscopic analysis and other methods .High speed precision turning of hardened steel GCr15 produces morphology of continuous chip and serrated chip; Serrated chip has the typical characteristics of the adiabatic shear slip after section such as apical surface of the serrated chip is composed of multilayer rolling dentate shear plane, a single surface of one tooth is not smooth, but no crack. Extrusion grooves is produced from tooth root to tip; Intensive slip line on serrated chip cross-section can be saw by microscopic observation; Fracture surface of the serrated chip presents small tumor tissues. The results show that the reason of hardened GCr15 steel forming serrated chip is periodic adiabatic shear fracture, and the research provides a theoretical reference application of hard turning technology.