Appl. Sci. 2016, 6(3), 83; doi:10.3390/app6030083
Optimization of Minimum Quantity Lubricant Conditions and Cutting Parameters in Hard Milling of AISI H13 Steel
Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, 415 Chien Kung Road, Sanmin District, Kaohsiung 80778, Taiwan
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Academic Editors: Chien-Hung Liu and Huei-Chu Weng
Received: 3 January 2016 / Revised: 3 March 2016 / Accepted: 8 March 2016 / Published: 16 March 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2015 International Conference on Inventions)
Abstract
As a successful solution applied to hard machining, the minimum quantity lubricant (MQL) has already been established as an alternative to flood coolant processing. The optimization of MQL parameters and cutting parameters under MQL condition are essential and pressing. The study was divided into two parts. In the first part of this study, the Taguchi method was applied to find the optimal values of MQL condition in the hard milling of AISI H13 with consideration of reduced surface roughness. The L9 orthogonal array, the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were employed to analyze the effect of the performance characteristics of MQL parameters (i.e., cutting fluid type, pressure, and fluid flow) on good surface finish. In the results section, lubricant and pressure of MQL condition are determined to be the most influential factors which give a statistically significant effect on machined surfaces. A verifiable experiment was conducted to demonstrate the reliability of the results. In the second section, the optimized MQL parameters were applied in a series of experiments to find out cutting parameters of hard milling. The Taguchi method was also used to optimize the cutting parameters in order to obtain the best surface roughness. The design of the experiment (DOE) was implemented by using the L27 orthogonal array. Based on an analysis of the signal-to-noise response and ANOVA, the optimal values of cutting parameters (i.e., cutting speed, feed rate, depth-of-cut and hardness of workpiece) were introduced. The results of the present work indicate feed rate is the factor having the most effect on surface roughness. View Full-TextKeywords:
optimization; MQL; hard milling; Taguchi method; ANOVA
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Do, T.-V.; Hsu, Q.-C. Optimization of Minimum Quantity Lubricant Conditions and Cutting Parameters in Hard Milling of AISI H13 Steel. Appl. Sci. 2016, 6, 83.
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