Toward a new tribological approach to predict cutting tool wear

( )This work aims at improving the numerical modelling of cutting tool wear in turning. The key improvement consists in identifying a fundamental wear model by means of a dedicated tribometer, able to simulate relevant tribological conditions encountered along the tool-workmaterial interface. Thanks to a design of experiments, the evolution of wear versus time can be assessed for various couples of contact pressure and sliding velocities (sigma(n), V-s) leading to the identification of a new wear model. The latter is implemented in a numerical cutting model to locally simulate tool wear along the contact with regard to each local tribological loading. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of CIRP.