Experimental investigation of turning Al 7075 using Al2O3 nano-cutting fluid: ANOVA and TOPSIS approach

Abstract

The evolution of modern industry tends to use aluminium based alloys due to its low density and high hardness. While machining aluminium, one of the major failure modes of cutting tool is the material being machined adheres to the tool cutting edge. This leads to poor surface quality characteristics. Tough different tool materials and tool coatings are available, achieving better machining parameter is still under research. Hence, in this work, Al 7075 is machined using CNC lathe under dry and with the nano lubricant of Al2O3 of 5%. The turning experiments were carried out in Siemens—CNC lathe to investigate the best operating conditions. There are 27 experiments based on full factorial approach is performed. The machining parameters are speed, feed and depth of cut. The output parameters are metal removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (SR). The regression models developed from ANOVA are significant. To find best operating parameter TOPSIS is performed under each machining conditions. From the test results, it is concluded that the 1% of Al2O3 nano lubrication gives better value of both MRR and SR.