Material Removal: Some Recent Contributions to the Mechanical and Chemical Factors Involved in Machining and Metalworking

Abstract

IN A TECHNICAL PAPER at the 1966 Conference of the American Society of Tool and Manufacturing Engineers, L. D. Wells considers practical ways of evaluating cutting fluids. Some general agreement exists that the most satisfactory method is that of tool life study based on either complete failure or some agreed amount of wear. This is, however, relatively costly in terms of both time and material and hence many workers have developed accelerated bench tests using, for example radioactive tracers for wear determination or alternatively measuring a single property such as cooling power of a fluid. The author argues that as machining is a complicated process which involves plastic deformation, friction, wear and heat transfer it is unlikely that an accelerated test can yield valid results.

Citation

(1967), "Material Removal: Some Recent Contributions to the Mechanical and Chemical Factors Involved in Machining and Metalworking", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 6-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052815