Effects Of Workpiece And Tool Rigidity On Machining Performances.

UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

EFFECTS OF WORKPIECE AND TOOL RIGIDITY ON
MACHINING PERFORMANCES

This report submitted in accordance with requirement of the Universiti Teknikal
Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) for the Bachelor Degree of Manufacturing Engineering
(Manufacturing process) (Hons.)

by

MOHD ZAID BIN AWANG
B 050910295
880217-11-5537

FACULTY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING
2013

UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

BORANG PENGESAHAN STATUS LAPORAN PROJEK SARJANA MUDA

TAJUK: EFFECTS TO WORKPIECE AND TOOL RIGIDITY ON MACHINING
PERFORMANCES
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ABSTRAK

Keluli keras sering digunakan dalam industri acuan dan mati. Beberapa aplikasi yang
diperlukan untuk mempunyai cermin permukaan profil kualiti dan bentuk bentuk
bebas canggih serentak. Dalam amalan industri semasa, menggilap dan mencanai
sering dilakukan untuk mencapai yang diperlukan bahan kerja kekasaran permukaan
yang biasanya dilakukan secara manual oleh operator mahir. Jelas teknik-teknik yang
sedia ada untuk mencapai cermin kemasan permukaan untuk acuan dan mati
komponen mempunyai kecenderungan untuk produktiviti yang lebih rendah dan
kesukaran untuk memastikan ketepatan komponen. Di samping itu, persembahan
pemesinan dipengaruhi oleh banyak faktor seperti bahan kerja dan alat ketegaran,
memotong parameter, pemotong strategi jalan dan ciri-ciri yang ketara. Walau
bagaimanapun, dari semua faktor-faktor yang memberi kesan kepada prestasi
pemesinan, kesan bahan kerja dan ketegaran alat sering diabaikan. Oleh itu, kajian
ini akan mengkaji kesan bahan kerja dan ketegaran alat semasa proses pemesinan,
peredam getah berlaku pada bahan kerja dan alat memotong. Setiap teknik yang
dicadangkan akan menganalisis dan membandingkan untuk menilai prestasinya. Dua
jenis bahan yang digunakan untuk menyiasat kesan-kesan ketara ke atas ciri-ciri
pemesinan stabily dalam eksperimen aloi iaitu alumium 6000 dan AISI D2 keluli
alat.


i

ABSTRACT

Hardened steel is often used in mould and die industry. Some of the
application required to have mirror surface quality profile and sophisticated free form
shape simultaneously. In current industry practice, polishing and grinding is often
performed to achieve the required workpiece surface roughness which is generally
performed manually by a skilled operator. Distinctly the existing techniques on
achieving mirror surface finish for mould and die component have a tendency to
lower productivity and difficulty ind ensuring the component accuracy. In addition,
machining performances are affected by many factors such as workpiece and tool
rigidity , cutting parameter, cutter path strategy and material characteristic. However,
from all the factors that affect the machining performances, effects of workpiece and
tool rigidity are often neglected. Therefore , this study will investigate the effects of
workpiece and tool rigidity during the machining process, a rubber damper is place
on workpiece and the cutting tool. Each proposed technique will be analyse and
compare to evaluate its performance. Two types of material were used to investigate
the effects of material characteristics on machining stabily in the experiment namely

alumium alloys 6000 and AISI D2 tool steel.

ii

DEDICATION

This dedication is for my family, Mr. Dr Raja Izamshah and my teammate. Thanks to
them for always helping in the success of this study.

iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thanks to all peoples that involved in giving helps, guiding me in
order to learn new things and finish this final year project 2013. As we know,
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) has giving his entire student a task in
final year to carry out a research or project that relate with engineering and industrial
field. Here, I would like to thank all of the lecturer especially Dr. Raja Izamshah
Raja Abdullah as supervisor, staff and my friends that has helping me before and
during final year project who have teach and supporting me in doing this final year

project by teaching a lot of experiences, new things and at the same time always
guide me for better understanding in engineering sector especially Through this final
year project, I have been giving opportunity to carry out a research, machining
processing, experimental data, and using measurement equipment which all of this
things are really important to be learn in manufacturing industry. People say the best
way to learn new things is to experience it yourself. Lecturer and staff has give me
the first-hand experience of real research and project environment by taught me a lot
about the confronting real research issues where I can put in what I have been
studying into proper use.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
Abstrak

i

Abstract

ii


Dedication

iii

Acknowledgement

iv

Table of Content

v

List of Tables

viii

List of Figures

x


List Abbreviations, Symbols and Nomenclatures

xiii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1

1.1

Background

1

1.2

Problem statement

3

1.3

Objectives

3

1.4

Scope of the research

3

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

4

2.1

CNC Milling 5 axis operation

4

2.1.1

4

Type of CNC Milling 5 Axis two general groups

2.2

Half Sphere Milling

5

2.3

Strategy in Half Sphere Milling – Zig zag

7

2.4

Consideration Material in Machining

8

2.4.1

Aluminium

8

2.4.2

Tool Steel

9

2.5

Machining Performance

11

2.5.1

Surface Roughness

11

2.5.2

Vibration Assisted machining

13

2.5.3

Tool wear

14

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CHAPTER 3: METHADOLOGY

16

3.1

Introduction

16

3.2

Flow chart process

17

3.3

Process Planning

18

3.4

3.5

3.3.1

CATIA – Design Modelling

18

3.3.2

Create of half Sphere using CATIA Software

19

3.3.3

Detail Drawing and Dimension

20

Machining Process (CAM)

21

3.4.1

Drawing stock

21

3.4.2

Describes Milling Machine – CNC Milling 5 axis

22

3.4.3

Describes Axis

23

3.4.4

Describes cutting tool

23

3.4.5

Describes tool path

24

3.4.6

Determine generate NC code

25

3.4.7

Setup on CNC Milling Machine

26

3.4.8

Strategy Milling Technique

27

Performance Measurement

29

3.5.1

Surface roughness

30

3.5.2

Vibration amplitude machining

31

3.5.3

Tool wear

32

3.6

Machining Parameters

33

3.7

Analysis

34

3.8

Solution and Recommendation

34

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CHAPTER 4: RESULT AND ANALYSIS

35

4.1 Surface Roughness

36

4.1.1

Result

36

4.1.2

Discussion

39

4.2 Vibration Amplitude Machining

41

4.2.1

Result

42

4.2.2

Discussion

45

4.3 Tool wear

49

4.3.1

Result

49

4.3.2

Discussion

51

4.4 Statistical of Analysis data on Aluminium

53

4.4.1

Objective of Optimization

53

4.4.2

Validation

55

4.5 Statistical of Analysis data on Tool Steel

56

4.5.1

Objective of Optimization

57

4.5.2

Validation

58

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

60

5.1 Conclusion

60

5.2 Future work

61

REFERENCES

62

APPENDICES
A

List of Respondents

B

Gantt chart

vii

LIST OF TABLES
2.1

This general characteristic of Aluminium alloy

2.2

Tool Steel of Mechanical properties

10

3.1

This is machining parameters in machining process

33

4.1

Average reading a surface roughness by Aluminium on normal
technique

4.2

36

Average reading a surface roughness by Tool Steel on normal
technique

4.3

36

Average reading a surface roughness by Aluminium on tool
damping technique

4.4

37

Average reading a surface roughness by Tool Steel on tool
damping technique

4.5

37

Average reading a surface roughness by Aluminium on
workpiece damping technique

4.6

38

Average reading a surface roughness by Tool Steel on workpiece
damping technique

4.7

38

Average reading a surface roughness by three technique on
Aluminium

4.8

39

Average reading a surface roughness by three technique on Tool
Steel

4.9

40

The result of average to vibration amplitude machining by
aluminium

4.10

45

The result of average to vibration amplitude machining by Tool
Steel

4.11

45

The average of measurement value to tool wear by Aluminium on
three technique

4.12

9

51

The average of measurement value to tool wear by Tool Steel on
three technique

52

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4.13

Design actual of response by Aluminium on the three technique

4.14

The result of response evaluation by using Design Expert on

53

Aluminium

55

4.15

Design actual of response by Tool Steel on the three technique

56

4.16

The result of response evaluation by using Design Expert on Tool
Steel

58

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LIST OF FIGURES

1.1

The half sphere modelling to produce 3 diamond mirror surface

2

profile

2.1

DMG DMU 50 Mono Block model of 5 Axis Milling operations

5

2.2

The expected of half sphere modelling on development

6

2.3

The CAD/CAM system used creates the 5 axis CNC part
programs, with the tool axis perpendicular to the surface

6

2.4

Selection of tool path is zig –zag way

7

2.5

Aluminium

8

2.6

Tool Steel

10

2.7

The schedule of evaluation measurement surface roughness

12

2.8

The Accelerometer system to detect of amplitude machining

13

performance.
2.9

Optical Microscopy structure on the tool wear

15

2.10

The type of tool failure mechanism

15

3.1

Flow chart of process planning

17

3.2

Modelling of half sphere design

19

3.3

Half sphere of dimension drawing on the actual modelling

20

3.4

Drawing stock

21

3.5

Describe of the CNC milling 5 Axis

22

3.6

Illustration motion of CNC milling 5 Axis Machine

22

3.7

Describe of define Axis reference

23

3.8

Define of tool selection using in machining programming

24

3.9

Describe of tool path way

24

3.10

Define of data input ,output and NC coding

25

x

3.11

Setup machining datum

26

3.12

Normal technique machining

27

3.13

Tool damping machining

28

3.14

Workpiece damping technique machining

29

3.15

Surface test device and testing measurement of surface roughness

30

3.16

The scrip resulting after surface roughness measuring

30

3.17

Accelerometer device and located a probe by area position

31

3.18

The plot of diagram showing evaluation measuring of vibration
amplitude

3.19

31

This is optical microscopy system to determine of tool wear
structure a condition

32

3.20

The specimen sample for evaluation of structure on tool wear

32

4.1

Actual Visual a modelling of half sphere after machining process

35

4.2

Actual Visual of Surface roughness by an Aluminum and Tool
Steel at normal technique

4.3

36

Actual visual of surface roughness by an Aluminum and Tool
Steel at Tool damping technique

4.4

37

Actual Visual of surface roughness by an Aluminum and Tool
Steel at workpiece damping technique

38

4.5

The graph of average surface roughness by Aluminum

39

4.6

The graph of average surface roughness by Tool Steel

40

4.7

The Vibration amplitude machining of measurement
performance system

4.8

41

The plot diagram of vibration amplitude machining by Aluminum
on normal technique

4.9

42

The plot diagram of vibration amplitude machining by Tool Steel
on normal technique

4.10

42

The plot diagram of vibration amplitude machining by Aluminum
on tool damping technique

43

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4.11

The plot diagram of vibration amplitude machining by Tool Steel
on tool damping technique

4.12

43

The plot diagram of vibration amplitude machining by
Aluminium on workpiece damping technique

4.13

The plot diagram of vibration amplitude machining by Tool Steel
on workpiece damping technique

4.14

44

44

The Graph of average vibration amplitude machining on
aluminium to the comparison by three technique machining
46

process
4.15

The Graph of average vibration amplitude machining on
aluminium to the comparison by three technique machining
process

47

4.16

Actual visual for tool wear by normal technique

49

4.17

Actual visual for tool wear by tool damping technique

50

4.18

Actual visual for tool wear by workpiece damping technique

50

4.19

The graph of average tool wear by aluminium

51

4.20

The graph of average tool wear by Tool Steel

52

4.21

The graph of one factor by surface roughness vs. Level technique
54

on aluminium
4.22

The graph of one factor by vibration amplitude machining vs.
54

Level technique on aluminium
4.23

The graph of one factor by tool wear vs. Level technique on
55

aluminium
4.24

The graph of one factor by surface roughness vs. Level technique
57

on Tool Steel
4.25

The graph of one factor by Vibration amplitude machining vs.
57

Level technique on Tool Steel
4.26

The graph of one factor by tool wear vs. Level technique on Tool
58

Steel

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, SYMBOLS AND
NOMENCLATURE
Al

-

Aluminium

AISI D2

-

Tool Steel

ANOVA

-

Analysis of Variance

APT

-

Automatically programmed tool

C

-

Carbon

CATIA

-

Computer Aided Three dimensional interactive application

CAD

-

Computer Aided Design

CAM

-

Computer Aided Manufacturing

CNC

-

Computerized Numerical Control

Cr

-

Chromium

KHz

-

Kelvin hertz

Mm

-

millimetre

Min

-

minute

Mn

-

Mangan

Mo

-

Molybdenum

PCBN

-

Polycrystalline cubic boron nitride

P-1

-

Point 1

P-2

-

Point 2

P-3

-

Point 3

P-4

-

Point 4

P-5

-

Point 5

Rpm

-

Rotation per minute

Si

-

Silicon

NC

-

Numerical control

V

-

Vanadium

VAM

-

Vibration Assisted Machining

3D

-

Three dimension

µm

-

micro

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION

This report described a project of “Effects of workpiece and tool rigidity on
machining performance”. This chapter explains the background, problem statement,
objective and scope of the project.

1.1

Background

In the manufacturing engineering sector is very challenging especially for produce a
product into the automotive factory. It’s very needed to higher quality according to a
specification standard on guideline of requirement. The stamping mould and dies are
used to produce high precision metal components which are identical in shape and
size. The mould and die fabrication normal accomplished by milling machining
operation where the operation assisted by CADCAM technology software to provide
design and machining automation. All general, there are three main necessary stages
of mould die machining, namely, a rough machining stage where the work piece
material is removed as quickly as possible, semi finishing machining stage where
machining is carried out to ensure consistent material removal rate and finish
machining stage where the emphasis is on work piece dimensional accuracy and
quality finish.

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Figure 1.1: The half sphere modelling to produce 3 diamond mirror surface profile

The mould and die is further polished manually in order to get diamond finishing.
The multi-activities from rough to finish the product of mould and die based on
material requires a significant portion of the lead-time and substantially increased the
overall operational cost. Fine surface finish is essential not only to provide accurate
and stringent tolerance for complex stamping product but also provide optimum heat
transfer during quenching process. This multi-method process sequence consumed
numbers of cutting tools, facilities, highly skill manpower and long working hours to
achieve the desired product quality. In the research, to determine to optimum
condition the surface profile in mould dies to produce a smooth surface or smooth
integrity the mould die. Finally, the results from a research will provide useful
information to obtain fine optimum surface finish during machining mould and die
based material without further requirement of polishing activities. The information
obtained also will be useful as reference materials for machining in planning their
machining in requirement to produce maximize surface integrity, reduce process and
hence minimize operation costs in manufacture industries.
2

1.2

Problem Statement

Thus, this study, it’s will known that machining stability have a direct effect on
machining performance. Thus , critical on the machining stability need to be
understand. The will investigate effects of workpiece and tool rigidity on machining
performance and stability.

1.3

(a)

Objective

To investigate the effects of workpiece and tool rigidity on machining
performance( surface roughness, vibration amplitude and tool wear).

(b)

To evaluate the effects of workpiece material characteristic on machining
stability.

1.4

Scope of the research

In this research, a focus on assessing the ability to produce 3 diamond mirror surface
profile by using CNC Milling 5 Axis machining process. The three different
operations on machining techniques is normal technique, tool damping technique and
work piece damping technique .A Ball Mill to finishing cuts is used for half sphere
machining by Aluminium and Tool Steel (AISI D2) . The machining performance
includes surface roughness, cutting vibration machining and tool wear, were
measured of the result.

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CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW

This chapter explains a systematic method for identifying evaluating and interpreting
the work done by researchers, survey scholarly articles, journal, handbook and other
sources such as patent, journal and others. This chapter covering the literature review
of the topic specified.

2.1

CNC Milling 5 Axis Operation

In the most production to higher productive by using a CNC milling 5 axis
machining is designing as a highly sophisticated component that cannot operate by
CNC Milling 3 axis machining. The probability of performance very high accuracy
of the work when carry out of complex design. It is combined with the increasing
generate system software and offline CNC multi axis program has been in
regularized to 5 axis for improvement in productivity and output configurations.
2.1.1


Type of CNC Milling 5 Axis two general groups
The positioning of the work piece in several planes or a variety of angles to
the spindle, which then executes a 3-axis machining cycle. Five sections of a
prismatic part, plus any combination of compound angles can be machined in



one setup.
The continuous 5-axis cutting motion of sculptured surfaces, pockets or other
3-dimensional features, also in a single setup.

4

Figure 2.1: DMG DMU 50 Mono Block model of 5 Axis Milling operations

2.2

Half Sphere Milling

The modelling of half sphere is a complex shape to produce on the CNC 5 Axis
milling machine to operation . For the half sphere is complex surface are encountered
in many objects such as especially automobile industry component mould and die.
This is descriptive of half sphere a make to 3D of these surfaces is often produced by
combining together element such as among them cylinder, cones, sphere , Bezier and
spline surfaces using a Catia software system. This is geometric descried can then
especially be used to generate a tool path for controlling a CNC milling machine.
The actual machining of the complex surface on the design half sphere will be
broken down into three main methods.

5

In the roughing cuts, a large amount of material is removed to sphere the general
shape of a surface, as quickly as possible without bring the tool in contact with the
description surface. Next method, this is finishing cuts are used to remove the
remaining material. Typically a single point on a Ball Mill is used to generate the
desired surface profile. ( A. Warkentin, S. Bedi and F. Ismail, 1995)

Figure 2.2: The expected of half Sphere on development

Figure 2.3: The CAD/CAM system used creates the 5 axis CNC part programs, with the tool axis
perpendicular to the surface (R. Baptista, J.F Antune Simoes , 2000)

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2.3

Tool Path Strategy in half sphere Milling – Zig-zag

The strategy to made half sphere is used of zig –zag tool path. This is zig- zag pattern
is cut first (Shown in heavy dotted lines). Then the outer tool path (light solid line) is
cut. Regardless of design of half sphere or number of islands, only one starter cut is
required at the beginning of the zig –zag. The cutting tool may or may not be
withdrawn and moved between completing the zig-zag and starting the outer tool
path. Based on the review research, the selection of tool path has the best method of
the machining operation. In the case of the zig-zag tool paths it is desired that the
tool moves in a straight line in the feed-forward direction. Planning tool motion on
the design surface guarantees straight line motion of the tool contact point, but the
tool center may not move in a straight line. On the other hand, tool path planning on
the offset surface ensures straight line motion of the tool center. Hence, in the current
approach, CL points have been directly planned on the offset surface generated
through the ITO. ( Debananda Misra, V. Sundararajan and Paul K. Wright, 2002)

Figure 2.4: Selection of Tool Path is Zig- zag way

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