Machinability of the EBM Ti6Al4V in Cryogenic Turning

Stefano Sartori; Alberto Bordin; Stefania Bruschi; Andrea Ghiotti

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.651-653.1183

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Machinability of the EBM Ti6Al4V in Cryogenic Turning

Abstract:

In machining operations, the adoption of a cutting fluid is necessary to mitigate the effects of the high temperatures generated on the cutting zone, and, therefore, to avoid severe detrimental effects on the tool wear and surface integrity. In the biomedical field, the traditional processes to manufacture surgical implants made of Titanium and Cobalt Chromium Molybdenum alloys involve turning and milling operations. To cool the cutting tool with standard oil emulsions leaves contaminants on the machined surfaces, which require further cleaning steps that are expensive in terms of time and costs. Currently, this limitation is marginally overcome by machining without the coolant; however, as a consequence, severe tool wear and poor surface integrity take place. In the last years, many studies have been conducted on the application of Liquid Nitrogen as a coolant in machining difficult-to-cut materials such as Ti6Al4V. Thanks to its properties to evaporate immediately when getting in contact with the cutting zone, thus living the workpiece and chips dry and clean other than its ability to lower the cutting temperature. The adoption of Liquid Nitrogen as a cooling mean in machining surgical implants may represent an optimum solution enhancing the benefits of dry machining. This work is aimed at evaluating the performances of the Liquid Nitrogen as a coolant in semi-finishing turning of Ti6Al4V produced by Electron Beam Melting, a comparison with dry turning is presented. The alloy machinability in such conditions is evaluated in terms of tool wear, machined surface integrity and chip morphology.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 651-653)

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Stefano Sartori, Alberto Bordin*, Stefania Bruschi, Andrea Ghiotti

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Anisotropy, Fracture, Micro-Hardness, Microstructure, Thermal Parameters, Ti6Al4V

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