In continuous dry cutting, performance of whisker reinforced ceramic tools was investigated using the gray cast iron with various ferrite phase content as the workpiece. On the machining of gray cast iron containing up to 10 vol % ferrite phase, Al
2O
3 + SiC
w ceramic tool exhibited the tool life which is equivalent for the gray cast iron containing 0.5 vol % ferrite phase. The life of Si
3N
4 + SiC
w ceramic tool for the machining of gray cast iron containing a small amount of ferrite phase was rather short. However, the tool life for the case of gray cast iron with large amount of ferrite phase was short for both Si
3N
4 + SiC
w and Al
2O
3 + SiC
w ceramic tools. Flank wear face of SiC
w reinforced ceramic tools changed smoother with increasing ferrite phase content of the workpiece materials. In static heating test, it was observed diffusing of Fe into SiC
w occurred.
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