Experimental investigation of cutting temperature during drilling of float glass specimen

Abstract

In today’s industrialization, hard and brittle material such as float glass are widely used in various applications such as micro-fluidic devices, bio-medical parts, automotive glass, and optical lenses. Due to its difficult-to-machine characteristic, drilling of float glass leads to defects related to drilled hole quality. These defects exemplify as chipping, crack and surface roughness. All these defects are directly depend upon the temperature which could affect the drilling quality. Hence, authors tried to investigate the influence of cutting temperature of float glass specimen using rotary ultrasonic drilling. The experimentation is performed at two conditions with constant value of ultrasonic amplitude (20 μm), feed rate (6 mm/min) and spindle rotation speed (5000 rpm). These conditions are without coolant and with-coolant drilling. It is noticed that maximum cutting temperature reached with coolant drilling is 50.56°c and without coolant is 62.11°c. Consequently, it is revealed that drilling with coolant (water) should be adopted to improve the hole quality. Since, it reduced the formation of stresses during drilling operation which are induced due to rise in temperature. Microstructure images are carried out to visualize the hole quality.