Investigation of the Dynamics of Processing Parameters in Hard Turning Modes

One of the types of finishing operations of machining the surface of products made of metal materials is hard turning, which is carried out at elevated turning modes. When processing steels hardened to high hardness, in processing modes with the ma-nifestation of all the features characterizing hard turning, a lot of heat is released, which turns into chips during turning, while the values of the cutting force decrease, which is associated with the softening of the active surface 

layers of the processed material and its subsequent plasticization, which leads to a decrease in cutting forces in the contact zone. A significant interest both from a scientific and practical point of view is the issue of changing the cutting temperature and processing parameters in hard turning modes. The paper presents experimental research results and empirical dependences of the radial component of the cutting force and temperature on cutting speed and feed per revolution, at a fixed cutting depth in the modes of hard turning of hardened steel. The research has been carried out on an experimental installation specially designed for this purpose, consisting of a lathe and a stand for recording, monitoring and analyzing dynamic processes (in the form of a signal from the cutter) during turning. A cutter with replaceable ceramic cutting plates was used as a test tool, and the material of the workpieces for the research was HVG steel, subjected to heat treatment for a hardness category of 55 HRC. Computer and mathematical processing of the results obtained using the least squares method was carried out, which allowed us to derive calculation formulas for determining the values of the studied factors. The optimal values of the factors corresponding to the minimum value of the radial component of the force and the cutting temperature are determined.

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