Prediction of the cutting temperatures of stainless steel with chamfered main cutting edge tools

The main purpose of this report is to predict the temperature of carbide tip's surface and study the cutting forces of turning stainless steel with sharp chamfered main cutting tools. The friction forces and frictional heat generated on elementary cutting tools are calculated by using the measured cutting forces and the oblique cutting analysis. The heat partition factors between the tip and chip are solved by using the inverse heat transfer analysis, which utilizes temperature on the carbide tip's surface measured by infrared as the input. The temperature of the carbide tip's surface is solved by finite element analysis (FEA) and compared with those obtained from experimental measurements. A good agreement demonstrates the accuracy of the proposed model. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.