Machinability study of single-crystal sapphire in a ball-end milling process

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• 作者：Philipp Maas ; Yuta Mizumoto…
• 关键词：Cutting ; Machinability ; Sapphire
• 刊名：International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：18
• 期：1
• 页码：109-114
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• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Industrial and Production Engineering; Materials Science, general;
• 出版者：Korean Society for Precision Engineering
• ISSN：2005-4602
• 卷排序：18

文摘

Sapphire has received increasing attention as an engineering material even though its machinability is still an issue. In this study, the influence of the milling process parameters on the surface quality of single-crystal sapphire is investigated. Due to the hardness and brittleness of the sapphire substrate, crack initiation becomes the main concern with respect to up- and down-milling, feed rate, tool inclination angle and tool wear. With an inclined ball-end mill cutter in feed direction various cutting tests were performed to find optimal parameters for machining microchannel. It was observed that the feed rate and depth of cut are dominant factors for the surface quality. The tool inclination angle shows a parabolic relation to the quality of the machined surface. After tool wear events, such as peeling-off of the tool coating, an increased surface roughness is observed.