Investigation into the Relationship between Tool-Wear and Cutting Environments when Turning En32 Steel

摘要

A nitrogen gas rich environment produced a 55% reduction in flank wear on uncoated tooling when compared with conventional flood cutting environments. The work led to in-kind support from the BOC Gases (Dr Mark Cole at BOC Gasses +44 10902692084) and Sandvik UK Ltd. Interest has also been expressed by Boeing and Kennametal (USA).