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Diez 2012
Diez 2012
DOI 10.1007/s00170-012-4168-2
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Received: 9 June 2011 / Accepted: 11 April 2012 / Published online: 28 April 2012
# Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
ψi,j Angle measured from the point of the flute ith to data. In peripheral milling, the methodology developed
the portion of the cutting edge in the disk jth by Liang and Wang [13] shows how to determine simul-
(degree) taneously both the tool runout parameters and the spe-
Δz Disk thickness (millimeter) cific cutting pressure. Recently, various papers using
similar approaches have been developed for cylindrical
[14, 15] and ball end mills [16, 17]. Seethaller and
Yellowley [8] proposed a methodology for face milling
1 Introduction to determine the offset for each insert of the tool.
Finally, some researchers have focused on the mitigation
Cutting forces in all machining processes are closely related of the effects of tool runout on cutting forces [18, 19]. The
to tool condition and process performance. The develop- aim is to correct the variation of chip thickness produced by
ment of analytical models for the prediction of cutting tool runout. To achieve this goal, a fast variation of the feed
forces, taking into account the large number of variables per tooth is required for each spindle revolution. This
involved, has given us profound knowledge of the process. requires the use of piezoelectric-based feed drives that are
Among these variables, tool runout has received special able to produce a precise feed variation at higher frequencies
attention from researchers in order to assess its influence than conventional feed drives.
on the milling process. The effects of tool runout in milling So far, experiments have been carried out with unknown
are well documented. Tool runout makes tool flutes cut tool runout values. However, it would have been desirable
uneven quantities of material in every revolution. As a to check the procedures using different values of runout, for
consequence, it causes a deterioration of the milled surface the same tool assembly and in the same cutting conditions.
and a shortening of the tool life, due to the overload expe- Therefore, the possibility of obtaining reproducibility in
rienced by some cutting flutes. testing tool runout has been an unattainable objective.
Papers regarding tool runout in milling concentrate on In this paper, a new experimental procedure is proposed
three principal areas. The first group includes tool runout in in order to vary tool runout precisely. The micrometric
models for cutting force estimation in milling. The main resolution necessary for small tools makes precise adjust-
objective is to provide an analytical description of the ments difficult.
influence of tool runout on both chip thickness [1, 2] This procedure allows us to carry out experimental mill-
and cutting forces (in static and dynamic regimes). In ing tests varying the tool offset by keeping the same tool
general, most research attributes tool runout to tool assembly. This methodology is not dependent on the non-
eccentricity in peripheral end milling [3–6] and errors linear character of the milling process or on the influence of
of positioning in inserted cutters [7, 8]. Tool runout other variables that affect tool runout.
modifies the cutting geometry making tool flutes deviate The first part of this paper presents a new procedure for
from the initial cutting conditions, thereby affecting the actual tool runout variation, for the same tool and the same
surface quality of the workpiece and reducing tool life. cutting conditions in order to prove the robustness of the
Another aspect that has been investigated is the rela- cutting force models that consider tool runout. The funda-
tionship between tool runout and tool deformations. The mental issue in this procedure is to obtain the condition of
work carried out by Sutherland and DeVor showed that “zero runout”, that is, all sources of error that can produce
milling system deflections temper the effects of runout on tool runout have been compensated for, in order to obtain
cutting forces [9]. In recent years, other consequences of tool the same chip load for every cutting flute. Measured cutting
runout have been investigated. Simulating the milling process forces are compared to simulated cutting forces showing the
dynamically, Wan et al. [10] showed that tool runout affects relevance and the scope of the proposed methodology.
the stability of the process. Therefore, the resulting cutting forces on each flute are the
A second group of research includes papers regarding same.
the experimental determination of tool runout. The ob- The second part of this paper presents a methodology for
jective is to measure the difference in radius for the additional assessment of tool runout that may reveal the
cutting flutes statically [11] or dynamically. Research influence of other process parameters like tilt or tool defor-
done by Heckman and Liang [12] proposed a methodol- mation, among others. This procedure is based on external
ogy for online monitoring of tool runout. The estimation compensation for the cutting edge runout by controlled
of the parameters that characterize tool runout is obtained displacement of the workpiece in order to cancel its effect.
from real time spectral analysis of the cutting force The perfect match for the initial value of tool runout with the
signal. Therefore, the effect of spindle speed on tool estimated value and the corrected value of tool runout indi-
runout is taken into account. Finally, other papers focus cates that the proposed procedure and the cutting force
on the analysis of tool runout directly from cutting force model are both correct.
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Table 1 The cutting conditions for the experiments shown in Fig. 4 where, kt(ϕ) and kr(ϕ) are the corresponding specific cutting
Parameter Unit Value pressures given in Eqs. 5 and 6, respectively.
m
Tool diameter mm 12
kt ðfÞ ¼ Kt0 hi;j ðfÞ ð5Þ
Number of flutes – 2
Helix angle ° 45 n
Spindle speed rpm 1,200 kr ðfÞ ¼ Kr0 hi;j ðfÞ ð6Þ
Feed per tooth mm/tooth 0.075 The constant coefficients kt0, kr0, m, and n are determined
Axial depth of cut mm 2 through experimental milling tests. Considering the specific
Operation – Slotting cutting pressure as a potential function of chip thickness,
Workpiece material – Al 7040 instead of linear functions, a more precise estimation of the
Workpiece support – Rigid tool offset can be obtained. The cutting forces in directions
X and Y are calculated as follows.
Table 2 Cutting conditions us to vary the values of tool offset and thus control tool
Parameter Unit Tool 1 Tool 2 runout. The use of this type of toolholder is common in
boring operations. The proposed methodology is directed at
Tool diameter mm 8 12 the experimental verification of tool runout in milling. How-
Helix angle ° 30 45 ever, this procedure can easily extend to other machining
Number of flutes – 2 2 operations that use rotating tools. The experimental assem-
Spindle speed rpm 1,200 1200 bly proposed in this paper is shown in Fig. 2.
Feed per tooth mm/tooth 0.075 0.075 The boring toolholder allows the displacement of the tool
Axial depth of cut mm 2 2 in one direction by means of a micrometer screw. This has
Operation – Slotting Slotting been used to obtain different values for tool runout. However,
Workpiece material – Al 7040 Al 7040 it is necessary to ensure that the precision of the tool position-
Workpiece support – Piezo-based table Rigid ing allows us to set the runout in the toolholder accurately.
In order to quantify the positioning error when using the
nf X
X ND micrometer screw, a series of positioning tests was devel-
Fy ðfÞ ¼ Fy;i;j ðfÞ ð10Þ oped for various tool offset values. The tool position was
i¼1 j¼1 recorded using a dial indicator (1 μm resolution) with plane
contact point. The tool runout was calculated as the differ-
3 Proposed methodology ence between measured values for two cutting edges. A set
of five measurements were taken for each position of the
In this research, the use of an adjustable toolholder to tool. The mean value and the standard deviation were also
control tool runout is proposed. The toolholder used allows calculated from collected data. Results are shown in Fig. 3.
Tool inclination may arise during tool displacement, runout under typical cutting conditions for milling. Figure 5
making the control of this effect on the cutting forces nec- shows the experimental procedure for the simulation and
essary. This tool tilt produces a similar effect to runout on verification of tool runout in milling using the boring
the cutting forces. In order to assess whether this variation toolholder. The first step before carrying out a milling
could affect tool runout significantly, a series of milling tests test is to locate the tool position where runout is zero.
were performed. Various tool offset values and a constant This is achieved by adjusting the tool position until
angular position of tool runout equal to 90° were consid- each flute of the tool cuts the same quantity of material.
ered. Due to this angular position of tool runout, any vari- This is known as “zero runout” position. At this point,
ation of the runout value in the toolholder had no influence the cutting forces acting on each flute are the same.
on the cutting forces. Therefore, any variation of the cutting From this position, tool runout values can be fixed in order to
forces would be the consequence of the tool inclination and validate cutting force models in milling, taking tool runout
not due to runout. The cutting conditions for these milling into account.
tests are shown in Table 1.
Figure 4a shows the measured cutting forces in a slot
milling test when the position on the micrometer screw is at
zero. As is shown in Fig. 4a, both flutes cut uneven quantities
of material. To begin with, this can be attributed to tool
inclination or to an initial runout. In order to differentiate
between these effects, a predetermined tool offset value is set
on the toolholder. Later tests were carried out for 40 and 80 μm
tool offset values, under the same cutting conditions. The
measured cutting forces are shown in Fig. 4b and c. In both
cases, it can be seen that cutting force patterns remain invari-
able. Therefore, the variation in tool runout does not produce
appreciable variations on the chip section that could affect the
cutting forces. This allows us to conclude that, for the milling
test conditions considered, the uneven cuts of the flutes shown
in Fig. 4a are due to tool inclination. Figure 5b and c show that
for different tool runout values, there is no variation due to tool
tilting that could noticeably affect cutting forces.
The reference pulse generated in each tool revolution, which
is necessary in order to identify the reference flute and control
the entry of each cutting edge into the cutting zone, can also be
seen in Fig. 4. It is measured with an optic type detector.
Once the toolholder performance has been analyzed, it
will be shown that the toolholder can be used to control tool
Fig. 9 Cutting force coefficients for tool 2 and material Al 7040 Fig. 10 Cutting forces for tool 1 (kt(ϕ)0390.7h−0.43, kr(ϕ)035.4.7h−0.92)
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4 Assessment of tool runout setting (Fig. 6c) will result in the nominal chip load for this flute.
As the workpiece has moved back to its initial position, the
The accuracy in the estimation of the cutting force coefficients next cutting edge of the tool is on its nominal trajectory
and the precision of the devices employed in the proposed (Fig. 6d) and both flutes cut the same amount of material.
methodology may affect the estimated value of tool runout The experimental setup used for the external verification
making it different from the geometric value of the tool run- of the proposed methodology is shown in Fig. 7. The setup
out. For this reason, it is necessary to verify both values. consists of a piezoelectric actuator driving a precision table
In order to ensure that adjusted runout coincides with the with elastic displacement. A detailed description of this
desired value, an external verification method is proposed. arrangement is made in reference [19].
This method is based on the use of a piezoelectric actuator.
The verification process consists of producing a fast dis-
placement of the workpiece to vary instantaneous chip 5 Results
thickness. This variation will result in equal cutting forces
on each flute. In order to verify the proposed methodology, different mill-
The trajectory of each cutting edge of the tool is shown in ing tests were performed using various tools. In this section,
Fig. 6. The segmented lines represent nominal trajectories experimental and simulated results are presented for two of the
for each flute without tool runout. If tool runout is consid- tools tested in slot milling. The use of slot milling allows us to
ered, flute trajectory is different from the nominal trajectory explore what is happening along the entire revolution of the
producing a variation of chip thickness, as shown in Fig. 6a tool. The cutting conditions considered in these tests are shown
and b. This effect is taken into account in Eq. 1. For a two- in Table 2. Both tools were tested for tool offset values of 0, 10,
fluted tool, this variation is equal to 2ρ. and 20 μm. In order to asset tool runout setting, tool 1 was
The use of a piezoactuator to allow the synchronized tested using the experimental setup shown in Fig. 7. Although
movement of the workpiece with the cutting edge action, the use of this configuration is not strictly necessary to apply the
and with a value that results in the same chip load for both methodology presented in this paper, it permitted to validate the
cutting flutes, will indicate the actual value for tool runout. procedure to set tool runout in milling. Once the methodology
Therefore, when the minor edge is cutting, a 2ρ displace- has been validated, cutting tests using tool 2 were performed
ment of the workpiece against the direction of the feed rate fixing the workpiece to a rigid support. Figure 8 shows the
Fig. 11 Experimental
assessment of tool runout
setting for tool 1, using a
piezoelectric actuator to correct
runout
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described in this paper is useful in order to find the tool – A key issue in this experimental procedure is the precise
position where all flutes carry the same chip load. It is positioning of the tool. An initial verification takes
important to highlight the fact that the “zero runout” posi- place with a tool presetting in the machine and then
tion of the tool does not imply that the nominal rotation another verification takes place using measured cutting
axis coincides with the actual rotation axis. This posi- forces, checking if the difference of the cutting forces
tion ensures that the sum of the errors that produce tool coincides with tool runout.
runout is zero and therefore each flute cuts the same amount of – Zero runout in the positioning of the tool in the tool-
material. From this position in the toolholder, the effect of any holder corresponds with the same cutting forces for all
displacement of the tool will be equal to the tool runout flutes.
variation. – The toolholder mass could have affected the dynamic
In addition, an external verification of the tool runout behavior of the process. However, this was not the case
setting procedure was carried out. This method showed that for the cutting speeds used in the experiments.
runout setting was precise. The fact that the actuator cor- – Due to the nonlinear relationship between cutting force
rected the effect of tool runout on cutting forces by displac- variations and tool runout variations, the potential func-
ing the workpiece a distance equal to 2ρ indicates that the tion of chip thickness used in this research allowed us to
actual value of tool offset was the geometric value fixed in estimate tool runout more precisely.
the toolholder in both cases. According to these results, it – The measured and simulated results show the practical
can be seen that other variables affecting cutting forces in applications of the proposed methodology in order to
presence of tool runout, like tool/workpiece deformations or simulate and evaluate tool runout in milling.
tool inclination [Sutherland86] have less influence on the
setting of tool offset using the procedure presented in this
Acknowledgments Professor Diez would like to thank to Universidad
paper. de La Frontera (Chile) and Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Experimental results that validate the proposed method- Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) for supporting
ology have been compared to simulated results using the this work.
cutting force model presented in Section 2 of this paper. The
measured and simulated results show the relevance and
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