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Mechanism of chip formation and surface-defects in orthogonal cutting of soft-brittle potassium dihydrogen phosphate crystals

Journal

MATERIALS & DESIGN
Volume 198, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2020.109327

Keywords

Soft-brittle KDP crystals; Orthogonal cutting; Chip formation; Material removal mechanism; Brittle-to-ductile transition

Funding

  1. National Key Research and Development Programof China [2017YFB0305900]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51775147, 51705105]
  3. Science Challenge Project [TZ2016006-0503-01]
  4. Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by CAST [2018QNRC001]
  5. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017M621260, 2018T110288]
  6. State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System(HIT) [SKLRS201803B, SKLRS201718A]
  7. Nottingham research fellowship programme

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This paper investigates the evolution of different cutting mechanisms with the change of uncut chip thickness (UCT) in KDP orthogonal cutting processes, and proposes a novel theoretical model to explain the cutting phenomena, which is well validated by the analysis of cutting forces and machined surface quality. However, three kinds of surface defects were observed, including micro pits, micro craters, and edge chipping.
Micromachining repair of surface defects on KH2PO4 (KDP) optics is an emerging technique in the construction of Inertial Confinement Fusion facilities for obtaining clean nuclear fusion energy. However, this method is yet facing considerable challenges owing to the soft-brittle nature of single-crystal KDP, hence it is necessary to understand its ductile-regime cutting mechanism to generate crack-free surfaces. This paper seeks to investigate the evolution of different cutting mechanism with the change of uncut chip thickness (UCT) in KDP orthogonal cutting processes. A transition of cutting modes from plastic cutting to shear-crack cutting and then fracture cutting with the rise of UCT has been revealed. To explain these cutting phenomena, a novel theoretical model was proposed by calculating the specific energy dissipation for crack/fracture propagations during cutting processes based on fracture mechanics. This analytical model was well validated by the analysis of cutting forces and machined surface quality. Nevertheless, three kinds of surface defects have been observed, i.e. micro pits, micro craters and edge chipping. These surface defects were caused by tearing and spalling of materials with elastic recovery, crack propagation along cleavage planes with ploughing effect, and the peeling away of large-size fracture, respectively. The presented results of great significance for promoting the application of micromachining processes in future engineering repair of KDP optics. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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