Influence of cutting speed on intensity of the plastic deformation during hard cutting

Abstract

The paper deals with an analysis of deformation processes and the aspects related to a chip formation such as the chip thickness, the chip ratio, the shear angle and the chip segmentation during turning the hardened steel 100Cr6. This paper investigates the influence of the cutting speed through a metallographic analysis, a calculation of significant aspects of deformation processes and the resulting experimental study. This experimental study is based on an application of acoustic emission. The results of this study indicate that the cutting speed significantly affects the parameters such as the chip ratio, deformation angle or the speeds in the cutting zone. On the other hand, the experimental study allows an analysis of the specific characters of deformation processes and their real intensity.