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Wear behavior of natural diamond tool in cutting tungsten-based alloy

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Natural diamond tool is quickly worn out while cutting a workpiece made of a tungsten-based alloy. This paper presents a new approach to reduce tool wear: ultrasonic vibration cutting of a workpiece made of a tungsten-based alloy based on gas–liquid atomization cooling. An atomizer is a device which mixes carbon dioxide gas with vegetable oil and changes the liquid into minute droplets, which are carried by a stream of gas. Atomizer is also a device that incorporates a venture device to translate liquid into a gas stream. The atomized minute droplets act as the cooling and lubricating medium to protect the tools. The system is designed to ensure that droplets can spread all over the surface of a work piece. At a constant spindle speed, feed rate, and cutting depth, the experiments were carried out for investigating the effects of the tool vibration parameters, carbon tetrachloride liquid flow rate, carbon dioxide gas flow, and gas–liquid mass ratio on the tool wear. The experiments showed that the technology of ultrasonic vibration with gas–liquid atomization cooling effectively prolongs the tool life in cutting tungsten-based alloy.

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  1. Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116023, People’s Republic of China

    Yuanliang Zhang, Jinlong Wang, Lei Shao & Asif Iqbal

  2. Science and Technology on Underwater Test and Control Laboratory, Dalian, 116013, China

    Zhimin Zhou

  3. Dalian Polytechnic Universities, Dalian, 116034, People’s Republic of China

    Yan Lv

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Zhang, Y., Zhou, Z., Lv, Y. et al. Wear behavior of natural diamond tool in cutting tungsten-based alloy. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 69, 329–335 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-013-5045-3

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