The effect of tool-wear on cutting temperature

Abstract

Precision manufacturing plays an important role in modern manufacturing. Not only leading industry branches of the world but any other meet the profit requirements that encourage companies to think over their manufacturing processes and quality indicators of the produced components. The paper introduces some results of a machining experiment which gave information about temperature and tool-wear measured during turning of austenitic corrosion resistant steel. The results were compared with the results of a finite element modeling (FEM). It can be stated that measuring maximum temperature of the leaving chip is able to predict tool-wear and FEM can give a usable guide to cutting phenomena in case of exact model planning.