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Article

Increasing the Life Span of Tools Applied in Cheese Cutting Machines via Appropriate Micro-Blasting

by
Georgios Skordaris
1,*,
Konstantinos Vogiatzis
1,
Leonidas Kakalis
1,
Ioannis Mirisidis
2,
Vasiliki Paralidou
2 and
Soultana Paralidou
2
1
Laboratory for Machine Tools and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
2
Paralidis S.A., 8th Km Thessaloniki-Katerini, Kalochori, 57009 Thessaloniki, Greece
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Coatings 2022, 12(9), 1343; https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12091343
Submission received: 24 August 2022 / Revised: 7 September 2022 / Accepted: 9 September 2022 / Published: 15 September 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Coatings: Invited Papers in "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification" Section)
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The potential to increase the life span of tools applied in cheese cutting machines is of great importance, considering their cost and the risk of fragmented metallic parts of the tool being inserted into the cheese. Such tools are commonly manufactured using stainless steel 405 and are subjected to dynamic loads during their operation, leading to fatigue failure. An efficient method to improve the fatigue properties of such tools is the application of micro-blasting. In this work, for the first time, an experimental–analytical methodology was developed for determining optimum micro-blasting conditions and ascertaining a preventive replacement of the tool before its extensive fracture. This methodology is based on the construction of a pneumatic system for the precise cutting of cheese and simultaneous force measurements. Additionally, the entire cheese-cutting process is simulated by appropriate FEA modeling. According to the attained results, micro-blasting on steel tools significantly improves the resistance against dynamic loads, whilst the number of impacts that a tool can withstand until fatigue fracture is more than three times larger. Via the developed methodology, a preventive replacement of the tool can be conducted, avoiding the risk of a sudden tool failure. The proposed methodology can be applied to different tool geometries and materials.
Keywords: cheese cutting; tools; micro-blasting; fatigue cheese cutting; tools; micro-blasting; fatigue
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Skordaris, G.; Vogiatzis, K.; Kakalis, L.; Mirisidis, I.; Paralidou, V.; Paralidou, S. Increasing the Life Span of Tools Applied in Cheese Cutting Machines via Appropriate Micro-Blasting. Coatings 2022, 12, 1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12091343

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Skordaris G, Vogiatzis K, Kakalis L, Mirisidis I, Paralidou V, Paralidou S. Increasing the Life Span of Tools Applied in Cheese Cutting Machines via Appropriate Micro-Blasting. Coatings. 2022; 12(9):1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12091343

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Skordaris, Georgios, Konstantinos Vogiatzis, Leonidas Kakalis, Ioannis Mirisidis, Vasiliki Paralidou, and Soultana Paralidou. 2022. "Increasing the Life Span of Tools Applied in Cheese Cutting Machines via Appropriate Micro-Blasting" Coatings 12, no. 9: 1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12091343

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Skordaris, G., Vogiatzis, K., Kakalis, L., Mirisidis, I., Paralidou, V., & Paralidou, S. (2022). Increasing the Life Span of Tools Applied in Cheese Cutting Machines via Appropriate Micro-Blasting. Coatings, 12(9), 1343. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings12091343

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