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Alumina Based Cutting Tools—A Review

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In the last four decades, industries have gone through several gigantic changes; and a very significant progress is also witnessed in the field of alumina and associated cutting tool industry. This paper presents a review on the development of alumina-based ceramic cutting tools. Alumina based materials are used as cutting tools due to its favorable mechanical properties like high abrasive wear resistance, less tendency of weld to metal, high compressive strength, hot hardness, high refractoriness, high cutting speed and longer tool life. To obtain performance and efficiency wise better cutting tool; it must have good strength even at high temperatures, its coefficient of thermal expansion should be low, resistance to oxidation and thermal conductivity must be high. Alumina based cutting tool proved efficient in correspondence to the above-mentioned characteristics. This study will help the future researchers of this field to obtain a concise views and ideas in development of mixed alumina oriented cutting tools from its very beginning to the present day.

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  1. Department of Ceramic Technology, Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, Kolkata, India

    Sourav Mondal

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, Kolkata, India

    Rajashi Chatterjee

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Engineering and Ceramic Technology, Kolkata, India

    Partha Haldar

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  1. Department of Production Engineering and Management, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Sadhan Kumar Ghosh

  2. Department of Thermal Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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  3. Kalyani Government Engineering College, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

    Santanu Das

  4. Department of Production Management, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

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  5. Department of Thermal Engineering, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India

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Mondal, S., Chatterjee, R., Haldar, P. (2021). Alumina Based Cutting Tools—A Review. In: Ghosh, S.K., Ghosh, K., Das, S., Dan, P.K., Kundu, A. (eds) Advances in Thermal Engineering, Manufacturing, and Production Management. ICTEMA 2020. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2347-9_22

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