Development of Protruded Textured HSS Cutting Tool and Study of Its Impact on Cutting Performance during Dry Turning of Al 6063 Alloy

ABSTRACT

Machining with the textured cutting tool is an emerging sustainable method to improve the cutting performance of the tool. In this work, an attempt has been made to improve the cutting performance of HSS cutting tool by fabricating the protruded surface textures on the rake surface of HSS cutting tool. A triangular-shape protruded textures were fabricated on HSS cutting tool by radium masking followed by chemical etching process (CEP). Protruded textured (PT) cutting tools are used in the dry machining of aluminium 6063 alloy, and these tools were compared with the cutting performance of non-textured (NT) cutting tool. Experimental results showed that protruded textured (PT) tool has significantly impact on reduction of chip-tool tool contact area it leads to improved the cutting performance as compared to NT cutting tool.

KEYWORDS:

• Protruded textured HSS tool
• chemical etching
• cutting forces
• friction coefficient
• dry turning

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thankfully acknowledge Hari radium works, Hanamkonda, Telangana, India for the provision of cutting plotter.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Notes on contributors

K. Nagendra Prasad

K. Nagendra Prasad did his Master’s degree in Materials Science and Technology at National Institute of Technology Calicut. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. at National Institute of Technology Warangal, India, under the supervision of Dr. Syed Ismail. He is currently doing research in the field of the effects of surface texturing and shock peening processes on tribological properties of marterials.

Syed Ismail

Dr. Syed Ismail is currently working as Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology Warangal, India. His current research interests include Tribology, Lubrication, Surface Texturing, Laser Ablation and Surface Coatings. He did his Master’s and PhD degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kgp), India. He has published 28 SCI/Scopus Publications, 26 International and National Conferences of repute and 3 book chapters. He guided 3 PhD students (awarded) and 6 PhD students (ongoing). Currently he is having 2 ongoing research projects. Reviewer of few reputed journals.