Development of New Combined Manufacturing Technologies ‐ Influence of the Cutting Process on Workpiece Properties

Properties of materials for high‐strength structure components are influenced by production processes. These influences can be augmented by a combination of two presently consecutively executed process steps. The presented work shows first results in the development of novel combined manufacturing technologies, which along with prospective tools use this effect to adjust the material properties locally, adapted to the requirements. The combination consists of a merging of the process steps ‘material separation’ (metal cutting) and ‘changing properties’ (rubbing, rolling) to one single process step. For this purpose novel combined tools have to be developed. For the estimation of the possibilities of properties changes by combined processes at first the influences of single processes have to be determined. This contribution presents results of a “material separation” process. The investigated material is the industrially important aluminium wrought alloy AI7075‐T6, the applied process is orthogonal turning, the process parameters varied are cutting speed and feed as well as the tool geometry. Cutting force and feed force are measured, and the process influences on surface and subsurface properties are determined.