Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)

Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) is typically manufactured near to net-shape. However, secondary machining processes such as milling are often required before final assembly operation. Conventional milling is often associated with challenges such as rapid tool wear, poor surfa...

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Main Authors: Abd Halim, Nor Farah Huda, Ascrofta, Helen, Barnes, Stuart
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017
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author Abd Halim, Nor Farah Huda
Ascrofta, Helen
Barnes, Stuart
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Barnes, Stuart
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description Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) is typically manufactured near to net-shape. However, secondary machining processes such as milling are often required before final assembly operation. Conventional milling is often associated with challenges such as rapid tool wear, poor surface roughness, fibre pull-out, delamination and high cutting forces. The present work compares ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) with conventional milling (CM) of CFRP in term of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness, and machining temperature. Experiments for UAM and CM were conducted using three fluted polycrystalline-diamond (PCD) tools employing constant speed (500m/min) and feed rate (0.8m/min). For UAM, the amplitude and frequency were fixed at 5μ m and 39000 Hz, respectively. Application of UAM resulted in reduced forces (up to 20 %) and temperatures (up to 15 %), however, it was observed that surface roughness increased (up to 5 %). In addition, UAM produced higher tool wear (106 μ m) when compared to CM (80 μ m) after 10m machining length. Analysis of thermal damage of machined surface using Different Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) is also presented. The glass transition temperature (Tg) of CFRP shifted from 272 °C to ≈70 °C for both UAM and CM suggesting that machining temperature resulted in significant material property changes.
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spelling iium-808692020-06-30T08:06:54Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/80869/ Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) Abd Halim, Nor Farah Huda Ascrofta, Helen Barnes, Stuart TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) is typically manufactured near to net-shape. However, secondary machining processes such as milling are often required before final assembly operation. Conventional milling is often associated with challenges such as rapid tool wear, poor surface roughness, fibre pull-out, delamination and high cutting forces. The present work compares ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) with conventional milling (CM) of CFRP in term of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness, and machining temperature. Experiments for UAM and CM were conducted using three fluted polycrystalline-diamond (PCD) tools employing constant speed (500m/min) and feed rate (0.8m/min). For UAM, the amplitude and frequency were fixed at 5μ m and 39000 Hz, respectively. Application of UAM resulted in reduced forces (up to 20 %) and temperatures (up to 15 %), however, it was observed that surface roughness increased (up to 5 %). In addition, UAM produced higher tool wear (106 μ m) when compared to CM (80 μ m) after 10m machining length. Analysis of thermal damage of machined surface using Different Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) is also presented. The glass transition temperature (Tg) of CFRP shifted from 272 °C to ≈70 °C for both UAM and CM suggesting that machining temperature resulted in significant material property changes. Elsevier 2017 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/80869/1/1-s2.0-S1877705817315898-main.pdf Abd Halim, Nor Farah Huda and Ascrofta, Helen and Barnes, Stuart (2017) Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP). In: Advances in Material and Processing Technologies Conference (AMPT 2017), 11th December 2017-14th December 2017, Chennai, India. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705817315898 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.04.084
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Abd Halim, Nor Farah Huda
Ascrofta, Helen
Barnes, Stuart
Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)
title Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)
title_full Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)
title_fullStr Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)
title_short Analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (UAM) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP)
title_sort analysis of tool wear, cutting force, surface roughness and machining temperature during finishing operation of ultrasonic assisted milling (uam) of carbon fibre reinforced plastic (cfrp)
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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