FEM-Based Design and Analysis of a Smart Cutting Tool with Internal Cooling for Cutting Temperature Measurement and Control

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Dry or clean cutting without the hazards of cooling liquid, and the ability to monitor thermal impact on cutting tools in real time have been very appealing to the manufacturing industries. This paper presents the FEM-based design and analysis of a smart cutting tool which possess dual functions of cooling the cutting tool with the internal cooling structure and estimating temperature at the tool tip by measurement of the cooling liquid’s temperature at the inlet and outlet of the cooling structure. To evaluate the performance and feasibility of the smart cutting tool, thermal modelling is carried out by commercial software - ANSYS and FLUENT. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the novel tooling design concept can effectively reduce tool temperature away from the tool wear critical temperature zone and sensing the cutting temperature at the cutting tip.

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