期号
Int. J. Simul. Multidisci. Des. Optim.
卷号 12, 2021
Computation Challenges for engineering problems
文献编号 2
页数 7
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/smdo/2021002
网上发表时间 2021年5月12日

© K. Gobivel et al., Published by EDP Sciences, 2021

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1 Introduction

The use of titanium-based alloys in aerospace, bio medical and nuclear equipment's are known due to the attractive properties of physical as well as metallurgical characteristics. While conventional turning of these materials causes rapid tool wear due to high temperature on the cutting edge. To avoid such issues the finite element modeling and machining of these material under hot condition [1] was carried out and observed that reduction of cutting forces with increase in cutting speed. Also, the stress-strain response was recorded and compared with room temperature environment. Rao et al. [2] investigate the experimental and numerical modeling to understand the machining behavior using perforated PCD insert under MQL environment and found improvement on machined surface, reduction in cutting temperature and vibrations.

Shao et al. [3] employed thermodynamically constitutive equation in FE approach to establish the machining results which showed the reality of cutting temperature and compared the experimental and predicted tool wear depth. Song et al. [4] studied 2D FE model on Ti-6Al-4V by multi-step, pre-stress multi-step showed increase in chip segmentation and concluded effective increase in compressive residual stress. Sushinder et al. [5] investigated drilling studies on titanium alloy to find the effects of thrust force, torque chip characteristics. Thermal softening nature dominated at higher cutting speed moreover reduced the thrust force and torque. Bajpai et al. [6] conducted three-dimensional milling process on Ti-6Al-4V and observed the primary chip formation mechanisms along with the von-mises stress distribution. The maximum stress was 1518 MPa found near to rubbing area of tool rake face and the curl type of chip formation was formed during simulation.

Chen et al. [7] investigated the impact of constitutive material models on cutting simulation of Ti alloys, observed that the stress and damage evolution by three different constitutive models were well correlated with each other and the predicted results on cutting forces and chip formation were close agreement with experimental results. Pradhan et al. [8] studied the machining characteristics of Ti6Al-4V and compared the machining forces with FE simulations and obtained the better machining performance at the cutting speed of 112 m/min. Also revealed that chip segmentation occurred due to fracture and plastic strain. FE studies on turning of Ti-6Al-4V to understand the effect of tool insert texturing [9,10] on cutting force, temperature, chips morphology and observed that curled chip was formed during non-textured tool. Sahoo et al. [11] conducted hybrid modeling approach and found that the trends of predicted and experimental cutting force showed closer agreement with small variations. Shi et al. [12] studied hybrid approach on CFD and FEM to simulate cryogenic machining to evaluate cooling effect on tool temperature and tool wear.

From the literatures, very few 3-D modeling on Ti alloy were performed and a greater number of works on 2-D finite element method were carried out for the simulation of Ti-6Al-4V to predict the cutting forces, temperature, chip analysis and tool morphology. Despite the fact that the 2-D models allow for a good representation, since practical machining is not a two-dimensional method, this present work develop the 3-D finite element model for the turning of Ti-6Al-4V to predict the cutting force, thrust force and feed force for varied cutting speed and feed rates at constant depth of cut and the surface roughness were measured experimentally. The effect of von-mises stress were analyzed for various cutting conditions. The main benefit of three-dimensional finite element approach considered for accurate prediction of machining forces specially to analyze thrust force and feed force.

2 Methods

2.1 Experimental work

Turning experiment was performed on the conventional lathe using TiAlN coated carbide insert under dry cutting environment. The tool insert geometry was 10° rake and 7° clearance angle mounted on the tool holder. This TiAlN coated insert was chosen because of low cost compared to PCD and CBN inserts and optimized tool geometries which have the tendency to machining hard to cut materials. The work material which is in the form of cylindrical rod having 40 mm diameter and 150 mm length. Figure 1a showed the machining set up of Ti-6Al-4V with TiAlN carbide coated insert mounted on lathe tool dynamometer and the range of cutting speed and feed rate was chosen based on the preliminary experimental trial-and-error method and literature survey. The cutting speed and feed rate range between 18–61 m/min and 0.06–0.09 mm/rev at constant depth of cut 0.5 mm. The machining forces were recorded by dynamometer based on strain gauge with in-built data acquisition software which the time versus forces were plotted. The surface quality was measured on the machined surface using Surftest SJ-210 for all the cutting conditions. Chips formed from the various cutting parameters were collected and analyzed.

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Machining process (a) Experimental setup (b) FE simulation.

2.2 Simulation

The 3-D FE model has been developed using ABAQUS/Explicit to simulate the turning process of Ti-6Al-4V as shown in Figure 1b. The numerical simulation consists of work and tool geometry, work tool interactions, mechanical properties of work and tool, boundary conditions and chip separation criteria. The work material was defined as an elasto-plastic which modeled as rectangular block to assign its mechanical properties. The tool geometry was modeled as like those used in experimental trails. The Johnson Cook material constitutive equation was used to understand the plastic behavior which describes strain, strain rates and temperature dependent properties as shown in the equation (1). Table 1 showed the material constants of Ti-6Al-4V for the JC equation [13] used in this work. Left extreme and bottom of the work piece was constrained using ENCASTRE option and the tool was moved in positive direction. ALE method was adopted and the mesh refinement was done on the iterative convergence procedure based on trial and error method

σ = [ A + B ϵ n ] [ 1 + Cln ( ϵ / ϵ o ) ] [ 1 { ( T T r o o m ) / ( T m e l t T r o o m ) } m ]. (1)

Table 1

J-C Material Model parameter for Ti-6Al-4V (Lee and Lin [14]).

3 Result and discussion

3.1 Cutting force

Figure 2 showed the comparison of cutting force predictions of the FE model and experimental results at different cutting speed and feed rates. Table 2 showed the FE and experimental values of cutting force and its error percentage. From Figure 2a the experimental cutting force decreased with the increase in cutting speed. At cutting speed 18.8 m/min the error 3.53% produced closest correlation with average experimental results. The similar trend was observed at feed = 0.079 mm/rev experimentally where the cutting forces decreased with increase in cutting speed while the FE prediction yielded the next best results when compared with the actual machining results as shown in Figure 2b. At feed = 0.094 mm/rev, the trend of experimental results was similar, but the FE results were moderately compared to the actual conditions as shown in Figure 2c. Increased strain hardening effect of titanium alloy at higher values of feed rate and cutting speed attributed to moderate predictions of cutting force because of low range of strain rate taken into computation of flow stress data [15].

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Comparison of Exp and FE cutting forces at different feed rate.

Table 2

Cutting force values and error %.

3.2 Thrust force

The comparison of FE predicted model and experimental results on thrust forces for different cutting speed and feed rate as shown in Figure 3. Table 3 showed the FE and experimental values of thrust force and its error percentage. In general, the thrust force reflects the interaction of machined surface and clearance angle in which the similar trend was followed in the FE predictions too. When increasing the cutting speed, the tool shear angle increases, and a thrust force reduces due to the reduction in chip-tool contact length. At feed rate of 0.068 mm/rev, it was found that −3 to −12% deviation as shown in Figure 3a gives the closer agreement with experimental results. However, the deviation of −2 to −18% at the feed rate of 0.079 mm/rev and −7% to −19% error at feed rate of 0.094 mm/rev was observed as shown in Figure 3b and c respectively. FE predictions of thrust force moderately closer with experimental results at higher feed rate conditions.

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Comparison of Exp and FE thrust forces at different feed rate.

Table 3

Thrust force values and error %.

3.3 Feed force

FE predictions of feed force was compared with experimental results depicted in Figure 4. In general, feed forces are influenced by friction coefficient and frictional law, while the frictional value is higher, the feed force also higher. Coulomb friction was used in this work across all the cutting conditions to ensure its uniformity. Table 4 showed the FE and experimental values of feed force and its error percentage. The prediction of FE model for feed forces showed less accurate than cutting and thrust forces across the cutting conditions. The deviation of −7% to −24% and −7% to −15% as shown in Figure 4a and b were observed which is moderate closer agreement with actual machining conditions. But the feed rate 0.094 mm/rev showed the error of −8 to −45% as shown in Figure 4c deviation was below par and it was affected by all the constants of Johnsons Cook.

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Comparison of Exp and FE feed forces at different feed rate.

Table 4

Feed force values and error %.

3.4 Stress distribution

Figure 5 shows the predicted von mises stress distribution with the FE models for various cutting conditions. It reveals the maximum stress distribution at the distortion zone where the work and tool material in contact. At feed rate 0.068 mm/rev, the stress distribution show good consistency across the cutting speed with the ranges from 178 to 1093 MPa as shown in Figure 5a–c. At feed 0.079 mm/rev, the similar stress pattern ranges from 177 to 1099 MPa predicted across the cutting speed as shown in Figure 5d–f. However, at the feed rate of 0.094 mm/rev marginal decreaseof von mises stress predicted at the range of 159–987 MPa as shown in Figure 5g–i.

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von Mises stresses at various cutting speed and feed rate.

3.5 Surface roughness

Surface roughness (Ra) is one of the important parameters to analyses the quality of the machined surface quantitatively. The graphical comparison of Ra with respect to different cutting speed and feed rate was evaluated. Figure 6 depicts that the roughness value gradually decreased with increase in cutting speed at feed rate = 0.068 mm/rev due to low ploughing effect. However, at feed rate 0.079 & 0.094 mm/rev, the marginal increase in roughness was observed when cutting speed increases. It can be attributed to the tool advances along with its cutting path causes machine tool vibrations.

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Effect of cutting speed on surface roughness (Ra).

4 Conclusion

The series of experimental trials was conducted to study the machinability behavior of Ti-6Al-4V and 3-D FE model was developed to predict the cutting force, thrust force and feed force. Von Mises stress distribution was observed and analyzed for the various cutting conditions. Also, the surface roughness was evaluated experimentally for different cutting speed and feed rate. The following conclusions are made:

  • Predicted cutting forces showed closer agreement with experimental results especially in low cutting speed and feed rate. Similar trend was followed during the prediction of thrust forces however the FE model prediction over feed force showed lesser accuracy.

  • Overall, the Von-Mises stress distribution was observed from the range of 177–1099 MPa across the cutting conditions and marginal decrease in stress was found at higher cutting speed.

  • Surface roughness (Ra) was evaluated and found that gradual increase in roughness value when cutting speed increases at intermediate and high feed rate.

The 3-D FE model was developed found suitable to assess the machining forces and stress distribution of Ti-6Al-4V. Numerous trails can be carried out using 3D FE model for various cutting conditions which helps industry to select anoptimized condition for machining.

5 Implications and influences

Finite element modeling gained good popularity on machine tool industries for providing the detailed insights of the parameters like machining forces, chip analysis, tool wear studies, etc., for various conditions. The initial cost needs to be minimal which is a generic aim of any manufacturing sector and this can be possible by developing FE models to provide quick solutions. This work has an advantage to develop such FE models to conduct machining studies which negates the need for exhaustive experimental trials. Using the developed model, the machinability behavior can be studied even in higher cutting conditions and there is scope to improve numerical results accuracy by fine tuning mesh size, material model properties, etc., It can be extended further to analyze the chip morphology, tool wear, surface roughness models and correlate the analytical and numerical stress results.

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Cite this article as: Kathirvel Gobivel, Krishnaraju Srinivasaraju Vijaysekar, Gopalakrishnan Prabhakaran, Impact of cutting parameters on machining of Ti-6Al-4V alloy: an experimental and FEM approach, Int. J. Simul. Multidisci. Des. Optim. 12, 2 (2021)

All Tables

Table 1

J-C Material Model parameter for Ti-6Al-4V (Lee and Lin [14]).

Table 2

Cutting force values and error %.

Table 3

Thrust force values and error %.

Table 4

Feed force values and error %.

All Figures

thumbnail Fig. 1

Machining process (a) Experimental setup (b) FE simulation.

In the text
thumbnail Fig. 2

Comparison of Exp and FE cutting forces at different feed rate.

In the text
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Comparison of Exp and FE thrust forces at different feed rate.

In the text
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Comparison of Exp and FE feed forces at different feed rate.

In the text
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von Mises stresses at various cutting speed and feed rate.

In the text
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Effect of cutting speed on surface roughness (Ra).

In the text

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