This paper presents a tool wear monitoring framework for ultrasonic metal welding which has been used for lithium-ion battery manufacturing. Tool wear has a significant impact on joining quality. In addition, tool replacement, including horns and anvils, constitutes an important part of production costs. Therefore, a tool condition monitoring (TCM) system is highly desirable for ultrasonic meta...

aluminium matrix composites (amcs) materials are continuously displacing traditional engineering materials because of their advantages of high stiffness and strength over homogeneous material formulations. properties of amcs can be tailored to the demands of different industrial applications by suitable combinations of matrix, reinforcement and processing route. presently, several grades of amc...

Tool wear is a major contributor to machining errors of a workpiece. Tool wear prediction is an effective way to estimate the wear loss in precision machining. In this study, all kinds of machining conditions are treated as the input variables, the wear loss of the tool is treated as the output variable, and Projection Pursuit Regression (PPR) algorithm is proposed to mapping the tool wear loss...

Tool wear in turning of pure aluminum and drilling of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP)/titanium (Ti) stacks was investigated due to their importance in modern manufacturing. Although pure aluminum is a ductile metal while CFRP contains brittle carbon fibers, there exist also few important similarities which impact tool wear. For instance, neither work material contains inclusions harder ...

ISBN 978-93-82338-21-5 | © 2012 Bonfring Abstract--The present paper is an experimental study to investigate the effect of cutting parameters (cutting speed, depth of cut and feed) on tool wear, surface roughness and material removal rate (MRR) during dry turning of EN-31 steel. Turning experiments were conducted with cutting speeds: 250, 300, 350 m/min, feeds: 0.15, 0.2, 0.25 mm/rev and depth ...

Part thermal damage is a process limitation in finish hard turning and understanding process parameter effects, especially, tool wear, on cutting temperatures is fundamental for process modeling and optimization. This study develops an analytical model for cutting temperature predictions, in particular, at the machined-surfaces, in finish hard turning by either a new or worn tool. A mechanistic...

Tool wear state classification has good potential to play a critical role in ensuring the dimensional accuracy of the work piece and prevention of damage to cutting tool in machining process. During machining process, tool wear is an important factor which contributes to the variation of spindle motor current, speed, feed and depth of cut. In the present work, on-line tool wear state detecting ...

Planetary or Orbital tool actuation is one of the process improvement techniques used in Electro Discharge Machining (EDM) process which has multi facetted advantages. In present work, an attempt has been made to study the effect of various process parameters during planetary EDM of Ti-6Al-4V; a material which is difficult and expensive to machine by conventional methods. Parameters viz. Pulse ...