Abstract

The friction/adhesion between the tool and chip is generally large in metal cutting, and it causes many problems such as high cutting energy/rough surface finish. To suppress this, cutting fluid and tool coating are used in practice, but they are high in energy/cost and environmentally unfriendly. Therefore, this paper investigates the extraordinarily high-speed cutting (EHS cutting) mechanics of mainly soft and highly heat-conductive materials and proposes their application to solve the friction/adhesion problem in an environmentally friendly manner. In order to clarify the EHS cutting mechanics, a simple analytical model is constructed and experiments are conducted with measurement of the cutting temperature and forces. As a result, the following points are clarified/found: (1) heat softening at the secondary plastic deformation zone rather than the primary plastic deformation zone, (2) friction coefficient drop to 0.170 in EHS cutting, and (3) gradually increasing trend of cutting temperature in EHS cutting. Finally, EHS cutting is applied to dry cutting of aluminum alloys with a non-coated carbide tool and compared to conventional wet cutting with a DLC-coated carbide tool, and it is shown that a coating/coolant can be omitted in this region to achieve environmentally friendly cutting.

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