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Influence of cutting parameters on surface hardness in milling of AL6061T6
Author(s) -
Cătălin Tâmpu,
Bogdan Chirita,
Ion Cristea,
Valentin Zichil,
Carol Schnakovszky,
Eugen Herghelegiu,
Constantin Cărăușu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/916/1/012118
Subject(s) - indentation hardness , materials science , machining , surface roughness , metallurgy , residual stress , surface finish , cutting tool , hardness , composite material , microstructure
Milling is an important industrial common machining operation used to produce complex surfaces. Surface quality in milling operation is influenced by various factors such as cutting speed, cutting feed, depth of cut and chemical composition of the material. Surface quality is defined by roughness, residual stress and microhardness and is important in determining corrosion resistance and in fatigue crack initiation. The aim of the present paper is to analyse the influence of above-mentioned cutting parameters (cutting feed, cutting speed, depth of cut) on surface microhardness. Tests were conducted using a Coro mill 490 with a single insert that was indexed for every experiment, thus eliminating the influence of tool wear. Al 6061-T6, a material widely utilised in aircraft, defence, automobiles, and marine areas due to its good proprieties (good strength and lightweight) was used. Microhardness was measured on workpiece surface but also in the cross section of the workpiece, up to a depth of 1mm, in order to observe material state in subsurface layer. It was observed from the results that an increase of cutting speed have led to an increase of microhardness while a higher value for depth of cut has led to a lower value of microhardness. Feed rate has generated similar results with the depth of cut.

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