FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD-BASED SIMULATION OF TEMPERATURE FIELDS FOR APPLICATION TO ORTHOGONAL CUTTING WITH COATED TOOLS

A finite difference method was proposed to model the effect of a variety of tool coatings on the magnitude and distribution of temperatures through the tool-chip contact region and the coating/substrate boundaries. For each workpiece-tool pair tested the intensity of uniformly distributed heat flux and relevant analytically obtained values of the heat partition coefficient were assumed to change with variations of cutting speed and the corresponding friction. In this case the simulation of an orthogonal machining of AISI 1045 steel was performed using special computing algorithm with elementary balances of induced energies (MBE). It is concluded that the temperature contours obtained reflect favorable the specific contact conditions existing at the tool-chip interface and substantial differences can arise from coating effects.