Tool wear mechanism in continuous cutting of hardened tool steels

被引:101
作者
Chou, YK [1 ]
Evans, CJ [1 ]
机构
[1] NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA
关键词
cubic boron nitride (CBN) tools; hard turning; tool wear; tool steels; carbide sizes;
D O I
10.1016/S0043-1648(97)00139-7
中图分类号
TH [机械、仪表工业];
学科分类号
0802 ;
摘要
Precision hard turning provides an alternative to grinding in some finishing applications. Rapid tool wear, however, remains an impediment to the process being economically viable. This experimental study investigates microstructural aspects of cubic boron nitride (CBN) tool wear in finish hard turning. Results indicate the followig: (1) carbide sizes of the workpiece have significant effects on tool wear; (2) the flank wear rate can be correlated with mean carbide diameter of the workpiece; (3) the wear resistance increases monotonically with decreasing CBN grain size: (4) in finish turning with low CBN content tools, the governing wear mechanism is fine scale attrition by microfracture and fatigue. A powder metallurgy M50 bar hard turned using an ultrafine CBN grain tool shows flank wear less than 45 mu m VBmax after 6.2 km cutting distance; this wear rate equals 3.1 mu m/km, over an order of magnitude lower than when machining conventional M50 under identical conditions. The surface finish is better than 80 nm R-a. (C) 1997 U.S. Government. Published by Elsevier Science S.A.
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页码:59 / 65
页数:7
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