Suppression of diamond tool wear in machining of tungsten carbide by combining ultrasonic vibration and electrochemical processing

As an important ceramic material, tungsten carbide (WC) is utilized as the typical mold in precision glass molding, which has replaced conventional grinding and polishing to provide a highly replicative process for mass manufacturing of optical glass components. Ultra-precision grinding, which is time consuming and has low reproducibility, is the only method to machine such WC molds to high profile accuracy. Although diamond turning is the most widely used machining method for fabrication of optical molds made of metals, diamond turning of WC is still considered challenging due to fast abrasive wear of the diamond tool caused by high brittleness and hardness of WC. Ultrasonic vibration cutting has been proven to be helpful in realizing ductile-mode machining of brittle materials, but its tool life is still not long enough to be utilized in practical diamond turning of optical WC molds. In the current study, a hybrid method is proposed to combine electrochemical processing of WC workpiece surface into the diamond turning process. Cutting tests on WC using poly-crystalline diamond tools were conducted to evaluate its effect on improvement of tool wear and surface quality. Validation cutting tests using single crystal diamond tools has proven that the proposed hybrid method is able to significantly reduce the diamond tool wear and improve the surface quality of machined ultra-fine grain WC workpiece compared to ultrasonic vibration cutting without electrochemical processing.     

Position-varying surface roughness prediction method considering compensated acceleration in milling of thin-walled workpiece

Machined surface roughness will affect parts’ service performance. Thus, predicting it in the machining is important to avoid rejects. Surface roughness will be affected by system position dependent vibration even under constant parameter with certain toolpath processing in the finishing. Aiming at surface roughness prediction in the machining process, this paper proposes a position-varying surface roughness prediction method based on compensated acceleration by using regression analysis. To reduce the stochastic error of measuring the machined surface profile height, the surface area is repeatedly measured three times, and Pauta criterion is adopted to eliminate abnormal points. The actual vibration state at any processing position is obtained through the single-point monitoring acceleration compensation model. Seven acceleration features are extracted, and valley, which has the highest R-square proving the effectiveness of the filtering features, is selected as the input of the prediction model by mutual information coefficients. Finally, by comparing the measured and predicted surface roughness curves, they have the same trends, with the average error of 16.28% and the minimum error of 0.16%. Moreover, the prediction curve matches and agrees well with the actual surface state, which verifies the accuracy and reliability of the model.     

Simulation of media behaviour in vibration assisted abrasive flow machining

Abrasive flow machining (AFM) is an abrasive-based precision finishing process used for achieving surface finish in micro and nano-level. The AFM polishes surfaces by extruding a visco-elastic media in contact with the workpiece. The media, also called a ‘flexible tool’, plays a key role in the performance of the process. Ultrasonic assisted abrasive flow machining (UAAFM) is a new variant of the AFM process in which the workpiece is subjected to mechanical vibration orthogonal to the media flow direction. In this process a high frequency, in the range of about 5–20 kHz, is given to the workpiece with the help of a piezo actuator and a specially designed fixture. The present work highlights on the possible behaviour of the tool (media) during UAAFM and its effect on the machining process through a computation based approach. Commercially available simulation tool was used to study the effect of the media in response to different set of machining conditions. The responses were evaluated in terms of changes in the fluid pressure, velocity profile of the fluid, temperature distribution in the working fluid and the possible wall shear on the work surface. A three-dimensional model was constructed for simulating the UAAFM process. The simulation shows that the abrasive particles tend to hit the target surface at an angle ‘θ’ which significantly affects the basic mechanisms involved and enhances the effectiveness of the process. The computed wall shear explains that the process will have higher finishing rate and hence the performance. The enhanced interaction of abrasive media in UAAFM while compared to simple AFM could be explained by the resultant pressure–velocity phenomena. Results show that while changes in the amplitude of applied vibration (10 μm and 50 μm) significantly affect the wall shear, the media velocity and pressure profiles are only marginally sensitive to this parameter. The simulation results also confirm that the rise in temperature during the process will not affect the media stability. Results have been discussed vis-a-vis the basic mechanism of the process through suitable illustrations.     

Experimental Investigations of Machinability in the Turning of Compacted Graphite Iron using Minimum Quantity Lubrication

Unique mechanical properties of the compacted graphite iron (CGI) attracted attention of manufacturers and suppliers mainly in automotive industry in last decades. However due to the low machinability of the CGI material, more efficient machining strategies need to be implemented. Improvement in the cost-effective and environmentally sensitive processing of compacted graphite iron (CGI) is one of the major concerns of the manufacturing world because of the allure of CGI's mechanical properties. This study assesses the efficiency of minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) in CGI turning when compared to the dry-cutting condition. The turning tests were conducted across a wide range of cutting parameters: three different cutting speeds (100, 200, 300 m/min) and three different feed rates (0.1, 0.2, 0.3 mm/rev), all at a constant depth of cut (1 mm). The MQL efficiency is evaluated through cutting force and surface roughness measurements, optical and SEM analyses of chip formation and tool-wear analysis. The results showed that MQL usage provided a reduction in the resultant cutting forces by 2–5%, a reduction in surface roughness by 25%. The SEM analysis also revealed much clearer and smoother cutting edges on tool surfaces used in the MQL tests.     

微织构刀具对工件表面残余应力影响有限元分析

针对微织构刀具对切削工件表面残余应力的影响,设计不同尺寸的垂直槽和平行槽微织构,利用有限元仿真技术,模拟不同类型、不同尺寸微织构PCBN刀具干式车削GCr15试验。通过对有限元结果进行研究分析,得到已加工表面残余应力分布情况,并与无织构PCBN刀具对比,分析微织构对已加工表面残余应力的影响。有限元仿真结果表明:与无织构刀具切削工件表面获得拉应力相比,槽型织构刀具切削后的工件已加工表面呈现压应力,提高工件表层的耐磨损和耐疲劳性能;宽度50μm垂直槽和宽度40μm平行槽刀具切削得到的工件表面压应力最大,对工件表面应力分布影响最显著。     

Study and evaluation of abrasive water jet turning process performance on AA5083

In this study, the effect of processing parameters on surface roughness and macro surface characteristics was analyzed during the machining of Ø30 mm and 300 mm aluminum alloy AA5083 abrasive water jets. As the processing parameters (up to 10 mm min⁻¹, 15 mm min⁻¹, 20 mm min⁻¹ and 25 mm min⁻¹), abrasive flow rate (50 g min⁻¹, 150 g min⁻¹, 250 g min⁻¹ and 350 g min⁻¹), the lathe chuck rotational speed (25 min⁻¹, 50 min⁻¹, 75 min⁻¹ and 100 min⁻¹) and the nozzle approach distance (2 mm, 5 mm, 8 mm and 11 mm) were used in experiments. In experimental studies, the pump pressure (360 MPa) was used as a constant, in the form of an abrasive Garnet (100 mesh), and the nozzle diameter as 0.76 mm. According to the findings, the best results in terms of surface roughness were obtained as a result of turning speed and abrasive flow rate. When the macro surface characteristics were examined, it was found that the lathe chuck rotational speed increased, the rate of nozzle progression was low, the rate of abrasive flow was high and the nozzle approach distance was lower and the smoother surfaces were obtained.     

Contact force modeling and analysis for robotic tilted-disc polishing of freeform workpieces

This paper investigates the tool-workpiece contact mechanism in the disc polishing process, where the soft polishing disc touches the rigid freeform workpiece with a small tilt angle. The developed contact force model can explain how the contact parameters, including the disc contact depth, the disc tilt angle, the radii of curvature of the disc and the workpiece, affect the normal contact force. Under some reasonable geometric and mechanical assumptions of the disc and the workpiece, an approximated contact force equation is derived in a simple power-law form similar to the Hertzian contact model. The contact force is found to be positively related to the disc contact depth and the disc radius, while negatively related to the disc tilt angle and the workpiece normal curvature that is orthogonal to the feed direction. Both finite element simulations and experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed contact force model. Furthermore, the material removal process is analyzed and a model-based process parameter planning method is developed to achieve uniform material removal considering the variation of workpiece curvatures.     

印尼BAYAH电厂一次风机故障原因分析与处理

本文针对印尼BAYAH电厂一次风机设备故障，详细的分析了故障产生的原因，介绍了三点法找转子动平衡和工装车削式在线修复电机滑环工法，阐述了两种工法的原理以及实施步骤。     

Numerical simulation of the effects of elastic anisotropy and grain size upon the machining of AA2024

Turning modeling and simulation of different metallic materials using the commercially available Finite Element (FE) softwares is getting prime importance because of saving of time and money in comparison to the costly experiments. Mostly, the numerical analysis of machining process considers a purely isotropic behavior of metallic materials; however, the literature shows that the elastic crystal anisotropy is present in most of the ‘so-called’ isotropic materials. In the present work, the elastic anisotropy is incorporated in the FE simulations along with the effect of grain size. A modified Johnson-Cook ductile material model based on coupled plasticity and damage evolution has been proposed to model the cutting process. The simulation results were compared with experimental data on the turning process of Aluminum alloy (AA2024). It was found that the elastic anisotropy influences the average cutting force up to 5% as compared to the isotropic models while the effect of grain size was more pronounced up to 20%.     

任意角带式输送机转弯装置应用研究

煤炭运输线路出现变向转弯时，通过多台传统带式输送机搭接实现输送，存在设备投资大、运输系统复杂、人员需求多等问题。介绍了任意角带式输送机转弯装置的工作原理、结构组成和特点，任意角带式输送机转弯装置由转向模块、改向模块、受料模块及其他辅助装置组成，当巷道转弯角度变化后，仅需要调节转向和改向滚筒即可实现带式输送机转向。该设备结构新颖、承载力大、运转安全可靠，可实现对带式输送机防逆转、制动，克服了转向运行时胶带的滑移和受力不均等问题，实现了减人提效，同时，安装时不需要开掘机电设备硐室，减少了巷道工程量，具有广阔的推广前景。