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Journal of Materials Processing Technology: Arshpreet Singh, Anupam Agrawal
Journal of Materials Processing Technology: Arshpreet Singh, Anupam Agrawal
Journal of Materials Processing Technology: Arshpreet Singh, Anupam Agrawal
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Article history: Deformation machining is a combination of thin structure machining and single point incremental
Received 15 October 2014 forming/bending. It enables the creation of monolithic structures with complex geometries in one
Received in revised form 20 May 2015 setup, employing conventional manufacturing techniques. Previously, such components would either
Accepted 22 May 2015
be assembled or manufactured using complex dies and machinery. Residual stresses generated during
Available online 10 June 2015
the machining and forming has direct implications on the product life cycle and properties. It is essential
to understand the process effects on the residual stress distribution. In the present work, an experi-
Keywords:
mental study of surface residual stress for deformation machining (bending and stretching mode) has
Machining
Incremental forming
been performed. The nano indentation technique has been employed to examine the residual stresses.
Residual stress The experimental results have shown the generation of compressive surface residual stresses during
Nano indentation machining and tensile surface residual stresses during forming (bending and stretching) operations. Sig-
nificant variation in the surface residual stresses with varying machining and forming parameters has
been observed.
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Table 1
Properties of Al 6063-T6.
Properties Density Melting point Poisson’s ratio Modulus of elasticity Tensile strength Shear strength Proof stress
Magnitude 2.7 gm/cc 600 ◦ C 0.3 70 GPa 195 MPa 150 MPa 160 MPa at 0.2%
Fig. 4. (a) Schematic of DM bending mode with process parameters; (b) actual DM bending mode component.
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Fig. 5. (a) Schematic of DM stretching mode with process parameters; (b) actual DM stretching mode component.
Table 2
Fixed levels of machining and forming parameters.
Tool material Tungsten carbide Stainless steel 304 Stainless steel 304
Tool diameter 16 mm 10 mm 10 mm
Spindle (cutting) speed 80 m/min 100 rpm 100 rpm
Transverse feed 0.5 m/min 0.2 m/min 0.2 m/min
Axial feed N.A. 10 mm/min N.A.
Depth of cut/incremental depth/angle 0.5 mm 0.5 mm 5◦
Forming depth/max. bent angle N.A. 10–20 mm 45◦
Cooling/lubrication Flood cooling Mobil oil-40 Grease
Table 3
Variable levels of machining and forming parameters.
ought to have significant bearing on the residual stress generation. contact area were estimated according to Oliver–Pharr method
After the respective machining and forming, the samples of size (Oliver and Pharr, 2004).
15 × 10 mm were cut with Buhler IsoMet® low speed saw. There- For the compressive residual stresses, the contact load to
after, the samples were cold mounted in epoxy resin. Each sample achieve a constant penetration depth are larger as compared to
was ground with different grades of abrasive paper and polished the unstressed (reference) samples (P1 > P2 ). Whereas, for tensile
with Buhler EcoMet 250® to achieve desirable surface finish for residual stresses the contact load to achieve a constant penetration
nanoindentation. Samples for nanoindentation were oriented par- depth are smaller as compared to the unstressed (reference) sam-
allel to the polishing plane. Raw material specimen was cut and ples (P3 < P2 ) (Fig. 6). This difference in the contact forces provides
grounded to desired finish and taken as a reference for nano inden- a basis for the residual stress estimation according to Suresh and
tation. The effect of cutting and polishing on the final outcome is Giannakopoulos (1998).The magnitude of residual stresses ( r ) can
avoided in nanoindentation as the stress values are relative to that be expressed in form of the ratio of contact areas A0 and A of the
of reference sample. indented samples without and with stress, respectively, and the
hardness value (H) as follows:
For tensile residual stress,
2.3. Residual stress estimation using nanoindentation
A0
r
A0
= 1+ or r = −H 1− (1)
Nanoindentation was performed with TriboIndenter® -TI 950 A H A
(Hysitron Corporation, U.S.A) using a Berkovich diamond inden-
For compressive residual stress,
tor. Seven random indents were made on each of the sample, and
average reading was taken into account, depicted with a standard
error bar in each of the results. The indentation was executed in A0 r sinˇ A0
= 1− or r = H 1− /sinˇ (2)
the depth control mode with a maximum depth of 300 nm for each A H A
sample. The tip area was calibrated using standard quartz sample
provided by the instrument manufacturer. The mechanical prop- where sin ˇ is a geometric factor, ˇ is the tip angle for Berkovich
erties such as hardness and reduced Young’s modulus as well as tip = 24.12.
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Fig. 6. Load vs depth comparison for compressive and tensile residual stresses.
Fig. 8. Effect of machining feed rate on the surface residual stresses.
Fig. 7. Effect of cutting speed on the surface residual stresses. Fig. 9. Effect of cooling on the surface residual stresses.
3. Results and discussion at higher feed rates. Thermal loading, reason for tensile residual
stresses might be negligible in comparison to the machining load
In this section, effect of various machining, bending and form- at the higher feed rates.
ing parameters on the surface residual stresses generated in the
component has been discussed in detail: 3.1.3. Effect of cooling
Fig. 9 shows the effect of flood cooled and dry machining on
3.1. Effect of machining parameters on surface residual stresses the surface residual stresses for side and face milling operation.
The compressive residual stresses are significantly lower for dry
Effect of machining parameters like cutting speed, machining machining in comparison to flood cooled machining, presumably
feed rate and cooling has been discussed in this section: to the increased thermal loading.
3.1.1. Effect of cutting speed 3.2. Effect of bending parameters on surface residual stress in DM
Fig. 7 shows the effect of cutting speed on the surface resid- bending mode
ual stresses for both side milling condition employed for thin wall
machining and face milling condition for thin floor machining. The Effect of bending parameters like maximum bent angle, incre-
results show that compressive surface residual stresses are gener- ment bent angle on surface residual stresses has been discussed in
ated in both the cases. From the figure, it is evident that the stresses this section:
tends to decrease slightly with increase in cutting speed from 80
to 120 m/min. This is possibly due to the increased thermal loading 3.2.1. Effect of maximum bent angle (˛)
at increased cutting speed which tends to negate the compressive Fig. 10(a) shows the schematic of DM bending mode with maxi-
stresses. mum bent angle 15◦ , 30◦ , 45◦ and 60◦ . The samples were taken from
the actual bending zone (where the bent thin structure is attached
3.1.2. Effect of feed rate to the bulk material) from tensile as well as the compressive side of
The effect of machining feed rate on the surface residual stresses the bent structure. Fig. 10(b) depicts the corresponding load–depth
for side and face milling are shown in Fig. 8. The results show curves from the nanoindentation for the various attributes. From
a significant increase in the compressive residual stresses with the curves, it is clear that residual stresses developed in the samples
increased feed rate attributing mainly to the higher machining load are primarily compressive in nature, since the material with com-
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Fig. 10. (a) Schematic of DM bending mode showing different bending angles; (b) load–depth curves of DM Bending Mode samples.
Fig. 11. Effect of maximum bent angle on the surface residual stresses.
3.2.2. Effect of incremental angle (˛)
Fig. 12 depicts the effect of incremental angle on the tensile side
pressive residual stress requires larger indentation load for same of DM bending mode components over the surface residual stresses.
magnitude of indentation in comparison to the reference stress- A slight (insignificant) decrease in compressive residual stresses
free samples. with increase in incremental angle from 1 to 5◦ is noticed.
Fig. 11 shows the effect of maximum bent angle on both the
tensile side and compressive side of the wall over surface residual
3.3. Effect of forming parameters on surface residual stress in DM
stresses. During the incremental bending of the thin machined wall,
stretching mode
tensile residual stresses are generated on the tensile face of the bent
wall which tends to cancel out the highly compressive stresses gen-
Effect of forming process parameters like forming depth, form-
erated during machining. Tensile residual stresses increases with
ing feed rate and incremental step size on the surface residual
increase in the bending angle. Still the overall compressive nature
stresses has been discussed in this section:
of the stresses dominates the actual deformed thin wall on the ten-
sile face. On the compressive face of the bent wall compressive,
residual stresses are generated; thus, adding to the compressive 3.3.1. Effect of forming depth
stresses produced during the machining. This condition is similar Three components with depth up to 10 mm, 20 mm and
to bending in a cantilever beam and as the amount of springback in 30 mm were incrementally formed from the thin machined floors.
increment bending is less (10–25% for varying range of parameters) Schematic of forming depth zones is depicted in Fig. 13(a). Fig. 13(b)
(Singh and Agrawal, 2015) the chances of stress recovery are also depicts the corresponding load–depth curves from the nanoinden-
minimal. tation for the various depth zones and the machined floor. It is
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Fig. 13. (a) Schematic of DM stretching mode showing different forming zones; (b) load–depth curves of DM stretching mode samples.
Fig. 15. Effect of forming feed rate on the surface residual stresses.
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