Experimental Results of Dry Drilling of Wear Resistant Steel

Abstract

Nowadays, adverse human induced impacts on the environment are constantly increasing, which urges engineers to make their production planning activities more environmentally conscious. In addition, during the realization and manufacturing processes of goods, the application of environmentally demanding and polluting materials is expected to be reduced or even eliminated. The application of the increasingly popular minimal lubrication method or even dry cutting could be considered to be efficient methods for reducing adverse environmental impacts. On the other hand, the mentioned methods have drawbacks since they considerably shorten tool life, result in a more significant cutting tool wear and lead to increase in friction. As a result, the tool and the work place temperature rise. This article aims to give an overview of how the feed direction force, the cutting torque, the tool wear, and the surface roughness change during the cutting procedure, if cutting is done under dry conditions while different cutting speed and feed motion parameters are applied.