Previous works on ultra high speed cutting have disclosed that the chip-tool interface temperature plays a very significant role in the wear of cutting tool, and there are the intimate relationships between the interface temperature and the thermal properties of work and tool materials. In this research, in order to find the nature of the tool wear in ultra high speed cutting, several work and tool materials with different thermal conductivity respectively were employed. The results are as follows :
(1) The wear of high speed steel tool increases with an increase of cutting speed, and the critical speed such as “valley of death” reported by Salomon is not observed.
(2) In cutting by sintered carbide tool with a high thermal conductivity, as a general trend the tool wear is very small, and the influence of thermal conductivity of work materials on the tool wear is relatively small.
(3) In cutting of the high thermal conductivity materials such as brass and aluminium, ceramic tool (α·Al
2O
3) has the least wear, on the contrary, for the low thermal couductivity materials such as resin, it wears severely compared with the sintered carbide tool.
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