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Procedia CIRP 26 ( 2015 ) 408 – 411

12th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing Use of Castor Oil as Cutting Fluid in of Hardened with Minimum Quantity of Lubricant

Mohamed Handawi Saad Elmunafi, D. Kurniawan, M.Y. Noordin*

a,b,c Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM Skudai, Johor 81300, Malaysia

* Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected]

Abstract

Use of cutting fluids in machining processes can reduce the cutting temperature and provides lubrication to tool and workpiece. These translate to longer tool life and improved surface quality. Due to the issues of using fluids in machining related to environment, health, and manufacturing cost that need to be solved, options to reduce their use. A technique called minimal quantity lubrication (MQL), which sprays small amount of cutting fluid (in the range of approximately 10 – 100 ml/h) to the cutting zone area with the aid of compressed air, was developed to merge the advantages of both dry cutting and flood cooling. For the type of cutting fluids, vegetable oils are common cutting fluids used in MQL because of its superior lubrication and high-pressure performance. This study evaluates the performance of MQL using castor oil as cutting fluid. The workpiece is hardened stainless steel 48 HRC. Results are compared with dry cutting. It was found that using small amount of lubricant of 50 ml/h during the particular process produces better results compared to dry cutting, in terms of longer tool life. Surface roughness and cutting forces were also enhanced albeit slightly. From the results, MQL can be a good technique for turning hardened stainless steel using coated carbide cutting tools for cutting parameters of up to 170 m/min cutting speed and 0.24 mm/rev feed. © 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license © 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of Assembly Technology and Factory Management/Technische Universität Berlin. Peer-review under responsibility of Assembly Technology and Factory Management/Technische Universität Berlin. Keywords:Machining; MQL; Hard Turning; Tool Wear; Surface Roughness.

1. Introduction and wet cutting. MQL is a technique which sprays small amount of cutting fluid (in the range of approximately 10 – Using cutting fluids in machining process has significant 100 ml/h) to the cutting zone area with the aid of compressed effect in reduction of temperature and lubrication to tool and air. The overall performance resulted was better than dry and workpiece, which in turn results in longer tool life and conventional wet turning in terms of being able to increase improved surface quality. On the other hand, it is widely tool life, reduce cutting forces and temperature and enhance known that using cutting fluids in machining has side effects surface quality, which is beneficial environmentally and also to the environment, workers’ health, and manufacture cost. economically [4,5]. It was used in machining various According to Klocke and Eisenblatter [1], cutting fluids incur workpiece materials, including steels, alloys, and cost of around 17% of the overall production. This figure is Inconel, using carbide tools [6,7,10]. Using MQL, cutting big considering it is only 4% for tooling. Also reported that fluids can penetrate deep into the tool-chip and tool- reduction of cutting fluids use is economically advantageous workpiece interface, hence the positive results. through reducing the handling cost of the cutting fluid [2]. Cutting fluid type used is also significant parameter in The reduction in the concentration of the cutting fluids from machining. Avila and Abrao [3] investigated the use of 5% to 3% results in longer tool life. Due to the issues of using different cutting fluids (two and one synthetic) fluids in machining that need to be solved, researchers have compared to dry cutting when turning hardened steel (49 been looking for options to reduce their use. HRC) using mixed alumina tools and found that the emulsions Recently, a technique called minimal quantity lubrication fluids (no ) and dry cutting produce better result (MQL) was developed to merge the advantages of both dry than synthetic fluids and emulsions with mineral oil. In this

2212-8271 © 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of Assembly Technology and Factory Management/Technische Universität Berlin. doi: 10.1016/j.procir.2015.03.001 Mohamed Handawi Saad Elmunafi et al. / Procedia CIRP 26 ( 2015 ) 408 – 411 409 present study, use of vegetable oil as cutting fluid is of 3. Results and Discussion interest. Vegetable oils are common cutting fluids used in MQL because of its superior lubrication and high-pressure The machining responses measured for dry cutting in this performance [8]. Vegetable oils have the image of study (Table 1) were of the same trend with those of our environmental friendliness in terms of resource renewability, previous study (Kurniawan et al. [11]). Increasing cutting biodegradability, and performance efficiency in many speed and feed reduces tool life. In terms of surface applications. Some positive results have been reported for roughness, there is slight increase in surface roughness with their use in MQL. Dhar et al. [4] reported that applying MQL increasing cutting speed and feed. This is different from technique using vegetable oil offers better performance than previous study which found no change in surface roughness dry cutting where cutting forces were reduced by 5 – 15%. for any material removal rate. The change is likely due to the Khan et al. [9] reported that MQL improved machinability feed which theoretically has direct influence to the surface performance when turning AISI 9310 alloy steel using toughness. As for the cutting forces, tangential force was the vegetable oil as cutting fluid. biggest of all forces directions. Forces increase with This study evaluates the performance of MQL using castor increasing cutting speed and feed, as expected. oil as cutting fluid. The workpiece is hardened stainless steel 48 HRC. Results are compared with dry cutting. 3.1 Tool Life

Table 1 and Figure 1 show the tool life results recorded during the experiments under dry and MQL technique. In 2. Experimental Details general, the longest tool life was obtained at low cutting speed and feed rate (100 m/min, 0.16 mm/rev) and the shortest tool The machining was conducted on Alpha 1350S CNC . life was at the combination of high cutting speed and high The cutting tool was WC-6%wCo substrate covered with feed rate (170 m/min, 0.24 mm/rev). In terms of tool life, PVD TiAlN coating. The coated carbide tool has an ISO cutting speed and feed increase reduces tool life when MQL designation of CNMG 120408, with wiper geometry on its was applied. The effect is of similar trend with both dry and nose radius of 0.8 mm. It was mounted on a right tool holder flood cutting, as expected. with an ISO designation of MCLNR 1616H12 giving -5˚ side Table 1. Results of dry cutting and MQL in terms of tool life, surface and back rake angle, 5˚ side and end cutting edge angle and 0˚ roughness, and cutting forces relief angle. The workpiece was AISI 420 stainless steel bar with hardness of 47 – 48HRC. The chemical composition of this workpiece was 0.38% C, 0.9% Si, 0.5% Mn, 13.6% Cr and 0.3% V, as informed by the manufacturer. Cutting parameters were cutting speeds of 100, 135 and 170 m/min, feed rate of 0.16, 0.2 and 0.24 mm/rev and constant depth of cut of 0.2 mm. The parameters selection was based on the previous work reported by the authors when turning hardened steel using carbide tools [11]. Flow rate of cutting fluid and air pressure for MQL were 50 ml/h and 5 bar, respectively. Castor oil was used as cutting fluids. As control, dry cutting with the same parameters was also conducted. The measured responses were tool life, surface roughness, and cutting forces. The criteria of tool life was set at maximum flank wear of 0.12 mm or when the tool is broken The technique was able to increase the tool life of coated (catastrophic failure) or if the surface roughness of the carbide cutting tools compared to dry cutting. This is due to machined workpiece is beyond 1.6 µm. Tool wear was the reduction of heat generation in the cutting zone and of measured using digital microscope (Zeiss, type Stemi 200-C). friction between the workpiece and the tip of the cutting tool. It was measured at every preset cutting time until the tool Tool life using MQL increases twofold then tool life under wear met one the tool life criteria. The measurements were dry machining. The effect of MQL compared to dry cutting taken without removing the tool out from its holder to avoid was similar to the report by Varadarajan et al. [10] when deviation error. Mitutoyo SJ-301 was used to measure the turning hardened steel (AISI 4340) of 46 HRC with speed of surface roughness, set at cut-off length of 0.8 mm. The up to 120 m/min and feed of 0.1 mm/rev under dry cutting, surface roughness was measured on different parts of the flood cutting and MQL conditions. Their results show better machined surface and the average was taken at the end of tool performance of MQL compared to other conditions in terms life. The three components of cutting force were measured of longer tool life and lower cutting temperature and forces. It using dynometer (Kistler 9265B, 3-axis) connected to the is suggested that the lubricating action of the vegetable oil CNC lathe. Forces were measured per cut and the average was cutting fluid oil was credited for achieving this improvement taken at the end of tool life. 410 Mohamed Handawi Saad Elmunafi et al. / Procedia CIRP 26 ( 2015 ) 408 – 411

over dry cutting. The cutting fluid with MQL technique was able to penetrate deep into the tool-chip and tool-workpiece interface which support coated carbide tool to perform better at high cutting condition and resulted an enhancement tool life. However, machining under MQL seems to be limited by cutting temperature, because at high speed the effect of oil mist becomes evaporated.

Fig. 2. Surface roughness versus cutting speed and feed rate under dry cutting and MQL conditions

3.3 Cutting Forces

Three forces generated acting on the cutting tool during cutting process, tangential force which called the main and Fig. 1. Tool life versus cutting speed and feed rate under dry cutting and largest force and acts on the rake face on the cutting force. MQL conditions Another two numerical forces are the smallest force which is called the feed force which resists the feed of the tool and the radial force which pushes the tool away from the workpiece in 3.2 Surface Roughness Z-axis direction [17]. As stated in Table 1, forces increase more at high cutting speed and feed. This is related to the One of the typical techniques to accurately quantify increase of chip cross section, a consequence of the increase surface integrity is the surface finish measurement and it is in feed and to the increase in the amount of chip to remove, considered as an indicator for the surface quality of the turned making more force shall be required for chip formation [20]. part. Costner. [13] reported that wiper geometry provides the In this case, the cutting forces shall increase. ability to duplicate the feed value and achieve the same Figure 3 shows the comparison between dry cutting and surface finish with conventional tool. In additional, wiper MQL technique in terms of cutting forces. Results show slight cutting tool improved the surface at constant feed compared to decrease in cutting forces generated under MQL technique conventional tool. Shaw [14] suggested that surface roughness compared to dry cutting. As can be seen from the results, the values in finish machining are expected to be in range of 0.75- highest force was obtained at high speed and high feed rate 1.5 ȝm. (170 m/min, 0.24 mm/rev) due to the catastrophic failure for Figure 2 shows the comparison between dry cutting and both dry cutting and MQL. The range of feed forces was 58- MQL in terms of surface roughness at different cutting speed 65 N for dry cutting and 54 N-61.5 N for MQL, while for and feed rate. MQL technique shows slightly improvement in tangential forces was 216.4 N-305 N for dry cutting and enhancing surface roughness compared to dry, which is 210N-300N for MQL and for radial forces was 153 N-176 N similar result as reported previously [15]. This slightly for dry cutting and 143 N-168 N for MQL. It was also noted improvement could be due to the less effect of the cooling that tangential force is about 1.47-1.79 higher than radial function of cutting fluid which is significantly effect as a force and it is around 3.9-4.8 higher than feed force. These lubricant more than its function as . Ra value results were because of the effect of the high temperature increasing at high speed and feed for dry and lubricant and the generated between the tool and workpiece and between tool improvement in surface roughness can be attributed to the and chip. Krishna et al. [24] reported that cutting forces reduction in the material transfer onto the machined surface mostly remained the same with increasing cutting speed in dry [7]. However, applying MQL was also reported to result no and using coolant with slightly increase with lubricant when significant improvement on surface roughness when turning turning AISI1040 steel with carbide tool. Panzera et al. [22] stainless steel by coated carbide [25]. reported that cutting forces decreased slightly with increased One may notice that from the results, MQL provided feed and depth of cut. Feed rate has less effect on cutting slightly lower surface roughness than dry cutting. This can be forces during turning under dry and wet hard while cutting due to the temperature reduction in cutting zone. Lower speed has very small effect on cutting forces during turning. surface roughness was obtained at low cutting speed and low Cutting fluid has given a significant effect for smoother feed rate (100 m/min, 0.16 mm/rev). Surface roughness values machining compared to dry. When the tool is still fresh, the tend to be higher at the end of tool life and the highest value generated cutting forces were lower and tend to be higher as was obtained at high cutting speed and high feed rate (170 the tool getting worn. m/min, 0.24 mm/rev). Mohamed Handawi Saad Elmunafi et al. / Procedia CIRP 26 ( 2015 ) 408 – 411 411

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