Tool Wear Analysis during Turning of Hard Material by Simulink

Abstract

Present work is an attempt to develop a simulink model of tool wear by machining of Bearing Steel (62 HRC) using cubic boron nitride (CBN) tool. The available mathematical model in the scholarly literature is used to make the simulation model using MATLAB software. Three components of tool wear adhesive wear, abrasive wear & diffusion wear are considered separately for their modeling and later modeling of total wear is done. Variation of tool wear is studied with respect to cutting speed. The developed simulink model is capable to do the similar type of study by changing the workpiece and tool material combination.