Quality Characteristics of Cutting Surfaces in the Milling of the Titanium Alloy Ti10V2Fe3Al

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Mechanics, Materials Science & Engineering, May 2016

ISSN 2412-5954

Quality Characteristics of Cutting Surfaces in the Milling of the Titanium Alloy Ti10V2Fe3Al Michael Storchak 1, Lucas Saxarra1, Like Jiang2, Yiping Xu2, Xun Li3 1 2

Changhe Aircraft Industries Group Limited Corporation, Jingdezhen, 333002, China

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School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China DOI 10.13140/RG.2.1.4655.1925

Keywords: Machining of titanium alloy, surface roughness, microhardness, residual stress, simulation.

ABSTRACT. As titanium alloys have unique mechanical propertie -titanium alloy Ti10V2Fe3Al (Ti-1023) is widely used by the aerospace industry, among other things, when producing critical components such as parts of the fuselage and the wings as well as various rotating components due to its extremely high ratio of strength to density, its great resistance to fatigue, its excellent resistance to corrosion and fracture toughness. Within the group of titanium -phase are among the materials which are most difficult to machine. In particular, this concerns milling processes widely used in the production of various complicated components. In order to be able to successfully apply the machining process of the titanium alloy Ti-1023, optimum cutting parameters of the tool have to be used, guaranteeing a required machining quality. This paper presents the results of experimental tests into the formation of quality characteristics such as roughness and microhardness as well as residual stresses and their simulation depending on cutting parameters such as cutting speed, feed and radial depth of cut. To analyse more closely how the cutting parameters affect the quality characteristics in milling, the individual dependences of the effects were described in exponential equations. The exponents for the exponential equations were established according to the Gaussian elimination method. The experimental results obtained and the developed FEM cutting models serve as a basis for further optimising the machining processes of titanium alloys.

Introduction. -titanium alloy Ti10V2Fe3Al (Ti-1023) is widely used by the aerospace industry, among other things, when producing critical components such as parts of the fuselage and the wings as well as various rotating components, due to its extremely high ratio of strength to density, its great resistance to fatigue, its excellent resistance to corrosion and fracture toughness [1]. Thanks to its unique physical-mechanical properties, this titanium alloy is gaining more and more importance besides the + -alloy Ti6AlV4, which is commonly used in industry and commerce [2]. Within the group of titanium materials, the alloys of the -phase are among the materials which are most difficult to machine. Especially material removal is characterised by low cutting speeds, small feeds and short tool lives, depending on the material precipitation condition [3]. These difficulties in the machining of the titanium alloy Ti-1023 have a great effect on guaranteeing the physical-mechanical [4], [5] and the geometrical quality characteristics [6] of the machined components' surface layers. This concerns particularly milling processes commonly used when producing various complicated components [7]. The cutting parameters have the greatest effect on the formation of the quality characteristics in the machining of titanium alloys as well as other materials. This paper presents the results of experimental tests into the formation of quality characteristics such as roughness, microhardness and residual stresses as well their simulation depending on cutting parameters such as cutting speed, feed and radial depth of cut of the milling cutter. Test set-up. Milling process. The experimental analyses of the milling process were conducted on the machining centre Hermle UWF 1202 H. The test set-up for milling is shown in Fig. 1. The MMSE Journal. Open Access www.mmse.xyz

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