Investigating the Effect of Machining Parameters on Surface Roughness and MRR of Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy in End Milling

  Umesh D. Gulhane,  Prasad V. Sawant,  Arunkumar S. Shinde,  Ashish A. Hodawadekar

Titanium alloys are considered as one of the best engineering metal due to their strength, low mass and good corrosion and temperature resistance and very good bio compatibility which makes this material very interesting for biomedical applications. Due to its material properties titanium alloy poses a challenge for machining operations. A sound understanding of the alloy behavior during the machining process is essential to achieve shape and dimensions tolerances of the product with minimum costs and machining times. The objective of this work is to optimize the end milling of Ti-6Al-4V, which is focused towards maximize the MRR(material removal rate) induced during machining and to reduce the surface roughness of the machine parts. Machining parameters like cutting speed, feed and depth of cut are considered in this work. The optimization procedure includes the application of Taguchi method and ANOVA for designing the experiments and for validating the experimental results.

Keywords- Ti-6Al-4V; DOE; Surface roughness; MRR; Taguchi; ANOVA; Optimization;

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1602171
Page Number(s) - 979-985
Pubished in - Volume 4 | Issue 2 | May 2016
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Umesh D. Gulhane,  Prasad V. Sawant,  Arunkumar S. Shinde,  Ashish A. Hodawadekar,   "Investigating the Effect of Machining Parameters on Surface Roughness and MRR of Ti-6Al-4V Titanium Alloy in End Milling", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.4, Issue 2, pp.979-985, May 2016, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1602171.pdf