Abstract
This industry supported study outlines the usage of DoE in titanium metal cutting research. Taguchi optimization methodology is applied to optimize heat treatment condition and cutting parameters in orthogonal metal cutting when machining newly developed titanium alloy Ti-54M with carbide insert tool. The control parameters evaluated are heat treatment (Annealed, Beta Annealed and STA, i.e. Solution treated and aged) cutting speed and feed rate. An orthogonal array (OA), signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are employed to investigate the effect of these three control parameters on cutting tool temperature and two force components. Using Taguchi method for design of experiment (DoE) , experimenters significantly reduced the time and hence cost for the experimental investigation. The results of ANOVA showed that majority of the input parameters had significant effect on the cutting tool temperature and force components. Thereafter, optimal cutting parameters and heat treatment conditions were obtained using Taguchi’s analysis. The results have been transferred to the respective industry. The industry is expected to gain from this research in terms of producing titanium alloys with better machinability.
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Author is thankful to the BITS Pilani (India) and MGEP (Spain) for the complimentary training received at the High Performance Cutting Research Group of University of Mondragon—Faculty of Engineering (MGEP). Author would like to acknowledge the many helpful suggestions of the faculty and staff members at MGEP.
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Khanna, N. (2016). Design of Experiments in Titanium Metal Cutting Research. In: Davim, J. (eds) Design of Experiments in Production Engineering. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23838-8_7
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