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Keywords: Most studies have been carried out to investigate the surface integrity induced by metal cutting process. How
Finite element (FE) modelling ever, the previous studies are limited to a longitudinal turning or orthogonal cutting operations and the residual
CEL stresses generated in a fillet radius have been ignored. This study uses a combination of experiments and nu
Fillet radius turning
merical simulations to study the evolution of cutting forces, temperature, chip morphology, and residual stress
Thermal-mechanical load
Residual stress
distributions while turning a fillet radius in AISI 304. Finite Element (FE) models were developed with a Coupled
Eulerian and Lagrangian (CEL) method, where the geometric model of the workpiece was established taking into
account the previous machined surface profile at the four specific cutting faces. The model was validated by
experimental cutting forces, chip morphology, and residual stress profiles. The changing trend of shape and area
of uncut chip cross-section during fillet turning were analyzed to explain the evolution of cutting forces and
temperatures. The results show that the cutting force components in cutting speed and tangential directions
increase during the early stage of the fillet turning process and decrease after that, while the force in the radial
direction shows an increasing trend during this process. The maximum temperature at the machined surface is
increased along the tool path. In addition, magnitude and depth of residual stress are slightly changed during the
fillet radius turning process, but a reduction of the residual stress profile can still be noticed.
* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: yangliux@mit.edu (Y. Liu).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2022.11.038
Received 19 May 2022; Received in revised form 13 November 2022; Accepted 15 November 2022
Available online 29 November 2022
1526-6125/© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The Society of Manufacturing Engineers. This is an open access article under the CC BY
license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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evolution during fillet radius turning of AISI 304, where a more Table 1
compressive residual stress was found in end face turning. The reason for Summaries of fillet radius turning and 3D metal cutting simulations.
this could be the different workpiece materials and cutting parameters Reference Workpiece Tool Cutting Remarks
employed in these studies. material material parameters
As it was reviewed, experimental measurement is the main approach Dumas 316 L Carbide Fillet radius Residual stress
to reveal the surface integrity of the components generated in fillet et al. austenitic tools turning becomes more
radius turning operations. However, the evaluation of surface integrity, [4,5] stainless Vc = 100 m/ compressive during
such as, surface roughness, microhardness, microstructure, and residual steel min the longitudinal
f = 0.3 mm/ turning than end
stress using experimental methods is a very time-consuming work, and rev face turning. The
because of the destructive nature of most testing techniques used, it is d1 = d2 = 0.3 study was carried
also often an expensive and a non-sustainable production approach mm out with
[2,7]. In addition, there are some interesting aspects which are difficult R = 5 mm experimental tests.
Weng et al. AISI 304 CVD- Fillet radius Residual stresses
to measure by experiment. For example, it is very hard to obtain the
[6] stainless coated turning have a slight
temperature distribution in the cutting zone due to influence of gener steel carbide Vc = 180 m/ difference between
ated chips [8]. Also, the in-depth distribution of residual stress in fillet tools min outer face and end
radius zone cannot be measured using X-ray diffraction with electro f = 0.15 mm/ face, but a
polishing due to the difficulty in etching the arc faces [9]. The limita rev reduction of the
d1 = d2 = 0.3 profile is still
tions of the experiment method restrict the knowledge of residual stress mm noticeable. The
distribution on the fillet radius and a quantitative understanding of the R = 5 mm study was carried
thermo-mechanical effects during the fillet radius turning process. out with
Residual stresses are generated in machined components due to the experimental tests.
Özel et al. AISI 4340 PCBN tools Turning The presence of
combination effect of thermal load, mechanical load, and metallurgical
[20] steel Vc = 125, variable design
structural alterations [3]. It is therefore imperative to obtain the rele 175, 300 m/ cutting tool inserts
vant information (temperature, forces, stress, plastic strain, etc.) during min was considered in
machining process as detailed as possible to reveal the basic mechanism f = 0.1, 0.15 FE modelling of 3D
of residual stress generation while turning a fillet radius. Over the past mm/rev turning process.
ap = 0.5, 1
decades, FE methods have been widely used in the simulation of metal
mm
cutting processes [10]. With the use of FE methods, temperature dis Agmell AISI 316 L PCBN tools Orthogonal 3D FE model with
tributions [11], cutting forces [12], chip morphology [13], stress fields et al. stainless cutting CEL formulation
within the cutting tools [14], and surface integrity characteristics (re [21] steel Vc = 250 m/ was proved to be a
min feasible and
sidual stresses [15,16], plastic deformation [17], microstructural alter
h1 = 0.2 mm effective approach
ations [18], white layer thickness [19]) on machined surface have been b = 1 mm to study both a
investigated comprehensively by many scholars. Other than predicting segmented chip
the orthogonal cutting process, some scholars have achieved the three- formation and the
dimensional metal cutting simulations to offer a more realistic periodic loads
acting on the tool.
machining process modelling. Through the use of 3D FE simulations
Valiorgue AISI304L TiN coated Turning A 3D hybrid model
[20], the temperature and stress distributions were predicted to reveal et al. stainless carbide Vc = 50–200 was proposed to
the advantages of variable edge design tools. Mathias et al. [21] [22] steel tools m/min predict residual
developed a 3D model for a serrated chip formation when machining f = 0.2–0.4 stresses induced by
mm/rev turning process,
AISI 316L. Valiorgue et al. [22] proposed a 3D hybrid model to predict
ap = 0.3 mm which significantly
residual stresses induced by turning process. In this model, the chip reduced
formation process was removed and replaced by acting equivalent computation time.
thermo-mechanical loadings that was obtained from experimental Arrazola Inconel 718 Uncoated Turning 3D FE simulations
measurements, which significantly reduced computation time. Arrazola et al. carbide Vc = 30, 70 were established to
[23] tools m/min explore the
et al. [23] investigated the residual stress distributions influenced by the
f = 0.15, influence of
material model and frictional model applied in 3D FE simulations. With 0.25 mm/rev material flow stress
a 3D machining model, Ozel et al. [24] studied the effect of modified ap = 0.15 and friction
material model on the cutting forces, temperatures, strain and stress mm parameters
employed in FE
distributions when turning Inconel 718. Yadav et al. [25] established a
simulations on the
3D model using DEFORM 3D to investigate the effect of cutting pa machining induced
rameters on material removal rate and flank wear. Previous literature stress predictions.
indicates that most of the numerical work took orthogonal cutting or Ozel et al. Inconel 718 Carbide Face turning This work presents
longitudinal turning into account and thus they are not adequate to [24] tools Vc = 30, 70 a comparison of 3D
m/min machining models
understand the mechanisms and surface integrity in turning fillet radius.
f = 0.25 mm/ developed using
Table 1 lists the summaries of the previous research about the fillet rev ABAQUS/Explicit
radius turning and 3D metal cutting simulations. ap = 0.15 and DEFORM™ 3D
In this paper, a Coupled Eulerian and Lagrangian method is mm Machining.
employed to predict residual stresses distributions while turning a fillet Yadav et al. Inconel 718 CVD Turning 3D machining
[25] coated N= simulations were
radius in AISI 304 using coated carbide inserts. First numerical insights carbide 421–1020 carried out to
about the thermal-mechanical load and surface integrity modifications tools RPM predict the flank
when turning a fillet radius are provided. The workpiece in four f = 0.08–0.2 wear and material
different cutting faces is modelled with a pre-generated surface profile. mm/rev removal rate.
ap = 0.4–1
The 3D FE model is validated by comparing cutting forces, chip
mm
morphology and residual stress distributions between the predicted re
sults and experimental measurements. In addition, the evolution of force
components, temperature distributions, chip morphology and residual
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stresses profiles along the fillet radius are discussed with the analysis of Table 2
the varying cutting parameters during this process. Tool geometry and cutting conditions.
Parameters Description Value
2. Experimental procedures
Tool geometry Kr ( )
◦
Major cutting-edge angle 72.5
λs (◦ ) Tool cutting edge inclination angle − 6
Fig. 1a shows the experimental settings of the present study. The γ n (◦ ) Normal rake angle − 6
cutting experiments were performed on an SMT500 CNC turning center. εr (◦ ) Tool included angle 55
The workpiece material employed in this work is AISI 304 stainless steel. r (mm) Tool nose radius 0.8
rβ (μm) Tool edge radius 60
The employed tool is CVD coated carbide tools (ISO DNMA150608). Cutting conditions R (mm) Fillet radius 5
Several revolutions were conducted prior to the experiment to generate d1 (mm) Depth of cut in outer face turning 0.3
a fillet radius. After that, the experiment was performed with a new tool. d2 (mm) Depth of cut in end face turning 0.3
Cutting conditions and tool geometries are listed in Table 2. The edge Vc (m/min) Cutting speed 180
f (mm/r) Feed 0.15
radius of the tool was pre-measured by Edge Master Module of Alicona
to ensure its accuracy (Fig. 1b). Several measurements were carried out
along the tool nose and the uncertainty of the edge radius was found Abaqus/Explicit v6.14-2. CEL method is used to completely avoid the
within ±3 μm. During the experiment, Kistler 9129AA dynamometer problem with severe element distortion and ensure proper chip
was used to measure the real-time cutting force exerted on the cutting morphology [16]. In CEL method, the cutting tool is described by the
tool. Original signals of cutting forces were acquired at an acquisition Lagrangian formulation and the AISI 304 stainless steel workpiece with
rate of 100 Hz in the cutting force measurement. Since the acquisition a Eulerian one. The relative position of the tool and workpiece is
frequency is low and the transition of the force components from outer adjusted based on the parameters used in the experiment. As an
face to end face are smoothly during the fillet radius turning process, example, schematic views of the FE model and the applied boundary
there is no filter utilized in the cutting force measurement. The chips conditions when turning the outer face are shown in Fig. 3a. The
generated during cutting experiments was collected and measured dimension and mesh employed for the cutting tool and the workpiece
under microscope. After the experiment, machining-induced residual are illustrated in Fig. 3b and c. The tool is described as a rigid body and
stresses in cutting direction were measured using X-ray diffraction and fixed in all displacement degrees of freedom. The Euler-part is dis
electropolishing techniques. For the outer face and end face, residual cretized by 8-node thermally coupled linear Eulerian brick elements
stresses distributions along the depth beneath the machined surface (EC3D8RT), and 4-node thermally coupled tetrahedron elements
were measured by electropolishing to remove successive layers of ma (C3D4T) are used for the cutting tool. The investigation on mesh
terial. Since it is difficult to etch the arc faces, only the magnitude of the sensitivity of chip morphology, temperature distributions and cutting
residual stress at the machined surface was measured at the cutting faces forces when using CEL method was already performed in previous
of Φ = 30◦ and 60◦ (indicated in Fig. 1a). For each test, five-time investigation [26]. It was recommended to use square elements to avoid
measurements were repeated to guarantee the accuracy of the results. any influence of the results due to the orientation of the elements. Also,
it showed that when decreasing the element size from 10 μm to 5 μm,
3. Finite element modelling fewer differences of chip morphology, temperatures and forces is noted.
10 μm square elements could be used to achieve fast results computing
3.1. FE modelling of workpiece and cutting tool with a lower accuracy but still satisfactory. Regarding the residual stress
distribution, it was found in our previous study [12] that the CEL model
To fully explore the residual stress evolution along the fillet radius, with 10 μm square elements is accurate enough to simulate the residual
four cutting faces are selected to perform the simulations, that is Outer stress profile. Therefore, in this study, the smallest element size of 8 μm
face, Deg30 face, Deg60 face, and End face respectively (Fig. 2). In each × 8 μm × 8 μm is used in Euler-part in the area near the machined
simulation, the workpiece is created with the shape of previous surface and chip to describe the residual stress gradient and chip
machined surface profile with the help of the “Merge/Cut Instances” morphology precisely. A coarse mesh with element size of 15 μm × 15
feature in Abaqus. The reason for selecting Deg30 face and Deg60 face μm × 15 μm are utilized in the rest of the Euler-part to improve
on the fillet radius is due to their special position, making it excep computing efficiency. The total number of elements are more than 2.5e6
tionally convenient to calculate the tool position in these two cutting for the Euler-part including the initial shape of the workpiece and the
faces (point C and D) and in the previous cuts (point C′ and D′ ) based on area where the chip will form. A computational time of two weeks is
the available angles and dimensions. needed for one cutting face simulation on a computer equipped with 8
These four 3D CEL Finite Element models were established in cores. Further refining the mesh is unacceptable for this cutting simu
lation due to the huge computational source consumption. The simula
tion was carried out in two steps. In the first step, the cutting process was
performed and in the second step the cutting tool was removed from the
workpiece to relieve the mechanical load. The machined workpiece was
not cooled down in the CEL simulation for two reasons. First, the
cooling-down step is extremely time consuming when it is carried out in
explicit solver ABAQUS/Explicit [27]. To address this issue, Nasr et al.
[28] developed an efficient model where an explicit solver ABAQUS/
Explicit was used for the cutting process, and an implicit solver ABA
QUS/Standard for the unloading and cooling-down steps. This method
was proved to cut down the computational time from the order of days
(obtained with explicit solver) to just few minutes. However, Coupled
Eulerian-Lagrangian method was adopted in this study and thus the
cooling-down step can be performed only in Dynamic, Explicit steps
[29]. In our cases, it will cost long computational time (the order of
months) to obtain residual stress profiles after cooling down the
Fig. 1. Experimental setup: (a) cutting experiments and force measurements; machined workpiece with such a large amount of elements (2.5e6) and
(b) edge geometry.
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Fig. 2. Selected cutting faces and the determination of tool positions for numerical simulation.
Fig. 3. The simulation settings when turning the outer face: (a) configuration and boundary conditions of the CEL model; (b) the mesh for the cutting tool; (c) the
mesh and dimension for the Euler-part.
small element length (8 μm). Second, the significance of thermal stress shown in Fig. 10a that the maximum temperature at the machined
in residual stress generation depends largely on the magnitude of tem surface is approximately 360 ◦ C in end face turning and can be lower in
perature in machined workpiece. The material employed in this paper is outer face turning. Matsumoto et al. [30] has concluded that the tem
AISI 304 that usually does not cause extreme high temperature. It is perature increases in workpiece is so low when turning AISI 304 and the
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3.2. Material modelling Fig. 5. Illustration of stress-strain response of a metal specimen with damage
behaviour [29].
The Johnson-Cook model [32] is adopted in this research to model
the flow stress characteristics of AISI 304 stainless steel (curve ab in
Fig. 5). This model is capable of modelling the plastic material behav Table 3
AISI 304 material constants for J-C constitutive model [33].
iour at high strains, at high strain rates and at high temperatures. The set
of Johnson-Cook parameters are given in Table 3. This model is A (MPa) B (MPa) n C m Tmelt (◦ C) Troom (◦ C)
expressed as follows: 277 556 0.794 0.0096 0.944 1400 20
[ ( ) ][ ]m
ε̇ T − Troom
σ = [A + B(ε)n ] 1 + Cln 1− (1)
ε˙0 Tmelt − Troom
Table 4
Thermo-physical properties of AISI 304 steel and carbide cutting tool [16,34].
where σ is the material flow stress; ε is the plastic strain; ε̇ is the strain
rate; ε˙0 is the reference strain rate; T is the temperature of the material; Thermo-physical parameters Workpiece (AISI 301) Tool (Carbide)
Tmelt is the melting point of the material and Troom is the room temper 3
Density (kg/m ) 7930 14,860
ature. The material constants are as follows: A is the yield stress; B is the Thermal conductivity (W/m◦ C) 16.2 82
Thermal expansion (◦ C− 1) 16e-6 5.2
hardening modulus; C is the strain rate sensitivity coefficient; n is the
Young's modulus E (GPa) 193 600
hardening coefficient and m is the thermal softening coefficient. The Poisson's ratio v 0.28 0.2
physical properties of the workpiece and the cutting tool are given in Specific Heat (J/Kg◦ C) 500 249.8
Table 4.
The criterion for damage initiation of an element is met when the
scalar damage parameter ω exceeds 1, which is given by Eq.(2),
Fig. 4. The way extracting approximate residual stress distribution: (a) the selection of Path a; (b) temperature distribution along the Path a; (c) residual stress
distribution in the cutting speed direction (RS “SZZ”) along the Path a.
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∑n ( )
Δε
ω= (2)
i=1 ε0 i
where D1-D5 are material constants; P/σ is the stress triaxiality where P
is the hydrostatic stress. The damage initiation is illustrated as point b in
Fig. 5.
After damage is initiated, the material stiffness is degraded pro
gressively, thus the stress-strain behaviour of the damaged materials
cannot be accurately described by Eq. (1). Continuing to use the stress-
strain relation introduces a strong mesh dependency based on strain
Fig. 6. Determination of the equivalent plastic strain at the onset of damage
localization, such that the energy dissipated decreases as the mesh is (ε0 ) and the maximum stiffness degradation (Dmax).
refined. A different approach is required to follow the strain-softening
branch of the stress-strain response curve. Hillerborg's fracture energy
zone into two zones: sticking zone and slding zone. Sticking zone is
model [36] is used to reduce mesh dependency by creating a stress-
formed near the cutting edge along the tool-workpiece interface, where
displacement response after damage is initiated, cf. Eq. (4).
the frictional stress is considered as the shear stress of AISI 304 stainless
∫ ∫
steel. Coulomb friction model is adopted to capture the sliding area. The
Gf = ε0 εf Lσ dε = uf σ du (4)
0 model is defined as Eq. (7):
( )
where, L is the characteristic length associated with an integration point; τf = min μσn , τy (7)
ε0 is the equivalent plastic strain at damage initiation; εf is the equiva
where τf is the frictional stress; τy is the yield shear stress of AISI 304
lent plastic strain when material is fully degraded; uf and σ are the
stainless steel; μ is the friction coefficient; and σ n is the normal stress
equivalent plastic displacement and flow stress.
between the tool and workpiece. It is known from the literature that the
In this study, Gf is provided as an input parameter and is calculated
friction coefficients between different workpiece materials and the
by Gf=K2c (1 − v2)/E where Kc is the fracture toughness determined by
matching cutting tools obtained by researchers vary with the cutting
[37].
conditions [41]. Among them, stainless steel have friction coefficient in
The degradation of the material upon damage is specified in expo
the range of 0.2–0.8 [17,21,42,43] in the FE modelling of machining
nential form, which is given as:
process. In this study, the value of friction coefficient is select as 0.3
( ∫ )
u σ according to the previous study [43].
D = 1 − exp − du (5)
0 Gf
During the softening phenomenon (curve bc in Fig. 5), the stress is, 3.4. Thermal modelling
therefore, given by Eq. (6):
The heat generated in machining comes from the friction work
σ = (1 − D)̃
σ (6) occurring in the tool-workpiece interface and the plastic deformation
happening in the workpiece material. The fraction of the plastic work
where ̃ σ is the undamaged stress computed in the current increment. It
converted into heat is set to be 0.9, and that of the friction work is set to
represents stresses that would exist in the material without damage,
be 1.0 [44]. In the tool-workpiece interface, the weight factor of fric
shown as curve bb’ in Fig. 5.
tional heat distribution between the tool and workpiece is set to be 0.5
In this study, an upper bound of damage variable, Dmax = 0.5, is
[27].
specified, which means that no further damage is accumulated at an
Heat conduction between cutting tool and workpiece is considered in
integration point once D reaches 0.5, and the plastic equivalent stress
the simulation and defined by gap conductance as a function of the
σ evolution starts to follow the curve cc′ .
pressure. The heat conduction coefficient is adopted from the literature
It is noticed that the values of ε0 and Dmax are determined according
[44]. Regarding the convection, this type of heat transfer is not
to the experimental results. A set of values were chosen and to perform
considered in the step of cutting process due to a very limited cutting
the test simulations until the discrepancy between the numerically and
time. Since the amount of heat radiation can be negligible compared to
experimentally obtained average chip thickness (T), average chip width
that of the thermal conduction, this type of heat transfer is not taken into
(W), and average value of the force component in the direction of cutting
consideration throughout the simulation.
speed (Fc) are below 20 %. The flow chart for determining these two
values is illustrated in Fig. 6. Eventually, ε0 and Dmax are set to 2.6 and
4. Results and discussion
0.5 respectively.
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350 changed significantly during the process of fillet radius turning. The
Fx Fy Fz
length of the uncut chip cross section increases by around 64.3 % from
the outer face turning to end face turning. This may be the reason for the
175 increasing trend for the force component Fr during this process. Fig. 9b
presents the evolution of uncut chip cross-sectional area during fillet
Forces (N)
Fig. 7. Experimental cutting force components evolution during fillet 4.2. Temperatures
radius turning.
Cutting temperature is a critical parameter worthy of attention
radial, and cutting speed respectively. Fig. 8 shows the comparison of because the temperature has a significant influence on the magnitude of
the force components obtained from simulation and experiment at these the tensile stresses on the surface of the machined components. How
four cutting faces. It can be seen in this figure that the proposed CEL ever, it is difficult to measure cutting temperature during turning pro
model shows a good correlation with Fc, but it underestimates Ft and Fr. cess because of the complex geometry of the contact area and the
The discrepancy of the average value for the Fc are less than 20 %, while influence of chip. With the help of the FE simulation, this work can
the prediction of Ft and Fr are 35.5–62.5 % underestimated. A reason for provide the predicted temperature distribution during fillet radius
the underestimation of the cutting force components is likely attributed turning. Fig. 10a indicates the predicted temperature field in chip and
to the lower value selection of the friction coefficient. It is shown in [40] workpiece at each cutting position at the same cutting time of 0.5 ms.
that in a sliding region the local friction coefficient higher than 1 can be Fig. 10b shows the evolution of the temperature over time at point F
observed using Partially Restricted Contact Length Tools. Increasing the (indicated in Fig. 10a) in outer face turning. It is worth to mention that
friction coefficient can cause larger tool–chip contact area, such that the short simulation time (0.8 ms) was carried out for the four cutting
more work is required to form the chip and thus result in higher cutting position simulation due to the large amount of computational time.
forces [45]. In addition, the fact that the real tool edge microgeometry Therefore, the steady-state thermal distribution were most probably not
will deform rapidly in the experiment because of the creep behaviour of reached for the four models [47]. However, this doesn't prevent
tool material would contribute to the underestimation of the predicted comparing the temperatures between these four cutting positions
tangential and radial forces. It has been reported that [46] the initial because the same cutting time was selected for temperature comparison.
wear or deformation of the cutting tool (WC-10%Co) occurs in the first It can be observed from Fig. 10a that the high concentration of heat
seconds while machining AISI 304 stainless steel. Through the simula appears at the root of the chip and around the edge radius of the cutting
tion of the tool creep behaviour, it was proven that the tool geometries tool for all the cutting faces. In addition, the temperature is higher at the
variation is a significant source of feed force error in metal cutting location away from the machined surface due to the increasing depth of
simulations. This can also be proved by the investigation [16] that the cut where more plastic deformation occurs.
deviations of the feed force are significantly reduced with the increasing Fig. 10c shows the maximum temperature at the machined surface at
of flank wear and edge radius. each cutting position, which increases from 295 ◦ C to 361 ◦ C with the
Fig. 8 shows that in fillet radius turning of stainless steel the variation angle of the cutting face position (Φ) increasing from 0◦ to 90◦ . This
trend of the cutting force components obtained from simulation and could be explained by the phenomenon that the engaged edge rounding
experiment are similar. Along the tool path, both force components Ft (blue-shaded region in Fig. 9a) increases during this process. Edge
and Fc increase up to a maximum value and then decrease until the tool rounding acts as an effectively negative rake angle in machining [48],
exits from the fillet radius, while Fr shows an increasing trend during this which will lead to a more severely plastic deformation of the workpiece
process. The evolution of force components is significantly influenced by material. The increased area of edge rounding means that the volume of
the uncut chip cross-sectional geometry and area along the tool path. It materials compressed by this region becomes larger along the tool path,
can be seen in Fig. 9a that the uncut chip cross-sectional geometry so that more heat is generated as a result. In addition, the change of the
local normal rake angle (γ l) also contributes to the augmented
Experiment Simulation
300 300 300
Fr (N)
Ft (N)
0 0 0
Outer Deg30 Deg60 End Outer Deg30 Deg60 End Outer Deg30 Deg60 End
Cutting face position Cutting face position Cutting face position
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Fig. 9. (a) Geometry of uncut chip in outer face turning and end face turning; (b) evolution of uncut chip area with the angle of the cutting face position.
400 400
Maximum temperature (°C)
Temperature (°C)
300 300
200 200
100 100
0 0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 Outer Deg 30 Deg 60 End
Cutting time (ms) Cutting face position
(b) (c)
Fig. 10. Predicted cutting temperature at the four cutting positions: (a) temperature fields in the workpiece; (b) the evolution of temperature over time at point F in
outer face turning; (c) the evolution of the maximum machined surface temperature during the fillet radius turning.
temperature. Fig. 11a shows the extraction of the local normal rake fillet radius turning process, although there is a slight recover in the final
angle that is located in Cutting plane A, and Fig. 11b presents the evo stage of this process. Therefore, in addition to the influence of the
lution of this angle during the fillet radius turning process. The overall engaged edge rounding, the decreased trend of local normal rake angle
trend of local normal rake angle tends to be more negative during the also results in the increased amount of heat generated along the tool
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Fig. 11. Local normal rake angle at each cutting position: (a) method extracting local normal rake angle; (b) evolution of this angle.
path. thickness and width predictions show 3.9–10.8 % and 3.9–18.8 % pre
diction error, which proves the correctness and accuracy of the proposed
numerical model.
4.3. Chip morphology
The chip thickness in fillet radius turning tests is non-uniform due to 4.4. Residual stresses
the variation of uncut chip thickness with the presence of the tool nose.
Accordingly, only the chip width and chip thickness are discussed in this Fig. 13 presents the experimental and numerical residual stress
section because it is difficult to acquire the section view of the chip. The profiles at different cutting faces during fillet radius turning. The
chip generated in outer face turning and end face turning were collected experimental results (Fig. 13a) show that there is not evident change
and measured with the help of optical microscope. Fig. 12 compares the with the residual stress profile when the cutting tool advances from the
chip morphology obtained from simulation and experiment, in which T outer face to end face. However, a slight decrease of maximum tensile
is the average chip thickness that was measured from the view of the residual stress and an increase of the magnitude and depth of
chip on the wider side, and W is the average chip width. The distribu compressive residual stress can still be found from outer face turning to
tions of equivalent plastic strain (PEEQ) are shown in predicted chip end face turning. The similar trend of residual stress distribution during
morphology. The way extracting the average width and average thick this process are also noticed in the simulated results (Fig. 13b). This is
ness of the predicted chip from the FE simulation model is also illus likely due to the variation of mechanical load acting on the workpiece
trated. It can be noticed from the experimental results that a significant during the fillet radius turning process. As already indicated in Fig. 8
smaller chip thickness is formed at the end face compared that at the that both the force components in the radial and cutting speed direction
outer face due to the shape variation of uncut chip region as shown in increase when the cutting face position (Φ) changes from 0◦ to 90◦ . The
Fig. 9a. At the same time, the width of chip increases because the workpiece material is therefore stretched more severely with a larger
engaged edge especially the straight cutting edge increases during this cutting force components at end face turning, leading to more
process. The simulation results follow the same trend of the chip compressive residual stress generated in the machined workpiece at this
morphology as the measured ones. In addition, the average chip cutting position. Fig. 13c compares the magnitude of residual stress at
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1000 1000
Outer face
400 400
200 200
0 0
-200 -200
800
600
Exp.
Sim.
400
200
Outer face Deg 30 Deg 60 End face
Cutting face position
(c)
Fig. 13. Residual stresses in cutting speed direction: (a) experimentally obtained residual stress distributions along the depth direction; (b) numerically obtained
residual stress distributions along the depth; and (c) surface residual stress comparison between the experiment and simulation.
the surface of the four cutting positions which are obtained from introduced as a supplementary method to contribute to the under
simulation and experiment. The error of the average surface residual standing of underlying mechanism of residual stress induced by fillet
stress between simulation and experiment is less than 20 %. radius turning because it can provide more information that is
There exist various error resources in numerically and experimen difficult to get from experiment, such as temperature distribution,
tally obtained residual stress distribution which would explain the residual stress distribution on the fillet face, local normal rake angle.
mismatch between them. In simulation, the sources of errors can be 2) Both the force components in the direction of cutting speed and
generalized as follows: not cooling down the machined workpiece tangential increase firstly and then decrease, while the force
because of the limited computing resources; the deviation of the friction component in radial direction increases during the fillet radius
coefficient selection; treating the workpiece material as pure homoge turning process.
neous when establishing the FE model, etc. In addition, simulations were 3) In fillet radius turning, cutting temperature in the machined work
carried out with a constant tool edge, while in practice the tool edge may piece increases when the cutting tool advances from outer face to end
deform in less time than the first second of turning process, which could face. This is caused by the combination influence of the engaged edge
change the value of the cutting forces and thus the residual stresses. On rounding region and the local normal rake angle, which become
the other hand, it was reported that there are testing errors in the larger and more negative respectively during this process.
measurement of residual stress [49], which could be one of the error 4) In fillet radius turning, tensile residual stresses were generated
sources occurring in experiment. In addition, before carrying out the within the depth of 25 μm from the surface throughout the area of
experiment the workpiece was pre-machined as a fillet radius. The fillet radius. Magnitude and depth of residual stress are slightly
previous revolutions could produce remaining residual stresses with changed during the fillet radius turning process, but a reduction of
various magnitudes and distributions prior to the experiment [50], the residual stress profile can still be noticed.
which will more or less affect the residual stress distributions obtained
from the experiment. Declaration of competing interest
5. Conclusions The authors declare that they have no known competing financial
interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence
This study reveals the evolution of process variables induced by fillet the work reported in this paper.
radius turning of AISI 304 regarding the cutting forces, temperature,
chip morphology, and residual stress. A 3D CEL model was developed at Acknowledgement
the four specific cutting face positions and experimentally verified. The
following conclusions can be drawn: Authors would like to thank Seco Tools for providing the necessary
tools. One of the authors (Y. Liu) appreciates the financial support from
1) A good agreement between the simulated and experimental results China Scholarship Council (No. 201706130144).
has been achieved in terms of the evolution of cutting forces, chip
morphology and residual stress. Numerical investigation can be
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