Effect of magneto rheological minimum quantity lubrication on machinability, wettability and tribological behavior in turning of Monel K500 alloy

Abstract

The proposed work deals with the investigation of magnetorheological based minimum quantity lubrication of graphene oxide (GO) based jojoba oil as bio-lubricant on machinability and tool wear mechanism of turning Monel K500 alloy. Experiments were carried out for dry, flooded, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and magnetorheological (MR–MQL) conditions using medium duty lathe. The process parameters include the cutting speed 95, 110, 125 m/min, feed rate 0.050, 0.075, 0.1 mm/rev and depth of cut 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 mm for the output responses such as surface roughness, cutting temperature and tool flank wear. The results indicated that GO-based bio-lubricant MR–MQL reduced coefficient of friction (COF) of 0.051 and wetting angle of 6°, as well as improved machining performance such as cutting temperature of 145 °C, the surface roughness of 0.614 µm, flank wear of 0.18 mm with enhanced lubrication regime under extreme wear conditions.

KEYWORDS:

• Graphene oxide
• jojoba oil
• minimum quantity lubrication
• Monel
• tribology