Frictional Heating and Convective Cooling of Polycrystalline Diamond Drag Tools During Rock Cutting

Waterjet Assisted Polycrystalline Diamond Indentation Drilling of Rock

The use of high-pressure waterjets as a method for enhancing the performance of mechanical cutting tools has been well documented over the years. However, concurrent with this development for drag bit tools, there has been some evidence that the combination was not an effective one. By using sectioned samples of rock indented with a spherical indentor (of the type used in percussive drilling) t...

Effect of temperature as well as heating and cooling cycles on rock properties

Temperature has a significant role in many actions performed on rocks. An example would be the effect of temperature on rocks in the burial of nuclear waste, geothermal energy extraction, deep oil well drilling, and fires in tunnels. In addition, due to diurnal/nocturnal as well as seasonal temperature variations, rocks undergo a process of heating and cooling. In the present work, the effect o...

Diamond and Polycrystalline Diamond for MEMSApplications :

To date most of the MEMS devices are been based on Silicon. This is due to the technological know-how accumulated on manipulating, machining, manufacturing of Silicon. However, only very few devices involve moving parts. This is because of the rapid wear arising from high friction in these Silicon based systems. Recent tribometric experiments carried out by Gardos on Silicon and polycrystalline...

Cutting Characteristics of Binderless Diamond Tools in High-Speed Turning of Ti-6Al-4V - Availability of Single-Crystal and Nano-Polycrystalline Diamond -

On Stress Analysis of Diamond Coating Cutting Tools

Diamond coatings have been increasingly used in cutting tools applications. Coating delamination is the major tool failure mode and occurs due to deposition-induced residual stresses and thermomechanical loading in machining. This study applies finite element analysis to investigate stress distributions, with the edge radius focused, in diamond coating tools considering depositions and machinin...