COMPARISON OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AND CALCULATION OF CUTTING FORCE BETWEEN UNCOATED TUNGSTEN CARBIDE & Ti COATED TIP TUNGSTEN CARBIDE WITH THE HELP OF LATHE TOOL DYNAMOMETER

摘要

The keyword for manufacturers of cutting tools and coatings for cutting tools is productivity: a 30%; reduction of tool costs, or a 50%; increase in tool lifetime results only in a 1%; reduction of manufacturing costs. But an increase in cutting data by 20%; reduces manufacturing costs by 15%;. In order to achieve higher productivity different approaches – High Performance Cutting (HPC) and High Speed Cutting (HSC) can be chosen. The performance of Carbide tools was studied to investigate the tool life and wear behavior at various machining parameters. This study presents tool wear characterization of carbide cutting tool inserts coated with titanium nitride (TiN) on a single point turning operation on copper, aluminum. A set of experiments with conditions of cutting speed, depth of cut and feed rate were performed on a lathe machine. Force analysis is done on Lathe Tool Dynamometer. From the result, cutting speed was found to be the main factor to have significant effect on surface roughness. At the end of this study, optimization was made by suggesting the most suitable sets of parameter settings to produce minimum surface roughness. Suggestion on parameter settings to obtain minimum surface roughness made.