Papers by Keyword: Pocket Corner

Abstract: High speed milling hardened mould steel (above HRC50) at pocket corner generates the cutting forces increase and vibration gets fiercely because of the sudden change of cutting direction. It will cause serious wear and possible breakage of cutting tool, and poor quality of parts. Hence, the need to select reasonable cutting parameters and adopt appropriate cutting strategies will help them to achieve their goal. In this paper, the effects cutting parameters including cutting speed, pocket corner angle, feed rate per tooth and radial depth of cut on cutting force and vibration are studied. The results show that sharper pocket corner results in the increase of cutting force and makes vibration strong. Cutting force increase with the increase of cutting speeding, feed per tooth and radial depth of cut. The optimum of cutting speed leads to the decrease of vibration. It is proposed that cutting parameters should be optimized to improve tool life and processing efficiency.

Abstract: When the pocket in die and mould is machined by high speed milling (HSM), the cutting forces increase and vibration fluctuates at the pocket corner because of the sudden change of cutting direction in general. It will cause serious wear and possible breakage of cutting tool, and poor quality of parts. By means of experiments, the cutting forces and vibration at the pocket corner with different HSM conditions are measured. The results show that the sharper pocket corner, higher cutting speeds, larger feed rate per tooth and radial depth of cut, will result in increasing of cutting forces and vibration amplitude. Thus, it will lead to be unstable during the process of high speed milling pocket corner.