Experimental Investigation into Wear and Tool Life of Milling Cutter PVD Coated Carbide Inserts While Armox 500 Steel Hard Milling

Abstract

The goal of the submitted paper is to evaluate the dependence of tool life T = f(vc) in hard rough face milling process of the Armox 500 steel through the PVD coated cemented carbide cutting material with SNHF 1204EN-SR-M1 tool insert geometry. Practical tests of choice material were performed in the milling machine tool with vertical axis. The effect of applied cutting conditions on the surface finish, tool life, wear of cutting tool, such as flank wear and surface structure of applied cutting inserts, was investigated during the performed experiments. The goal of this article is to research the impact of various cutting speeds values during the process of hard face rough milling. Experiments are carried out with an aim to study tool life, surface finish and flank wear prediction on the PVD coated cemented carbide cutting material in hard milling processes. This has been observed through the REM and mathematical method of least squares for this characterization. The presented approach and acquired results will prove themselves helpful in understanding the machinability of Armox 500 steel during the hard milling process.

Keywords

• carbide inserts
• flank wear
• hard milling
• milling cutter
• tool life
• tool wear