Accomplishments
Experimental Investigations to Determine Machinability of Titanium Alloy with Castor Oil based Coolant using it’s Latent Heat Load
- Abstract
In modern machining world a continuous effort is being made to find cost effective technique to machine hard materials, like Titanium alloys, super alloys etc. At the same time, it is also desired to improve the machining performances like tool life, surface roughness, cutting forces, retention of metallurgical properties of the material, etc. The primary objective of this research work is to analyze the effect of coolant at 00c on machining parameters on Titanium based alloy and determination of the optimum temperature of coolant for best machining performance. The performance on machining parameter like cutting force, surface finish, tool life, with castor oil based coolant at temperature of 00c was analyzed and was compared, with coolant at ambient temperature of 280c. It was found that at a coolant with temperature of 00c has a substantial improvement in various machining parameters, dimensional, and quality aspects of the job. The cryogenic cooling technique is used for machining of hard materials, but its economics and safety makes its use limited. An alternative to cryogenic cooling was thus proposed to manufacturing industries whose result is sixty percent to that of cryogenic cooling. A unique experimental setups were designed and fabricated for this research work.