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Effect of laser surface texturing on the wettability of WC-Co cutting tools

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During machining processes, a high temperature is generated in the cutting zone due to plastic deformation, resulting in an increase of wear and consequently reducing the lifetime of cutting tools. The addition of well-defined patterned surfaces with random or regular microfeatures to cutting tools can improve its wettability, providing an enhanced lubrication effect, a reduced tool-chip friction and a lower tool wear rate. In this sense, this work proposes a laser surface texturing approach of WC-Co green compacts to obtain different cross-hatched micropatterns, for enhancing these tools wettability. Results showed that laser surface texturing allowed to produce well-defined, reproducible and equally spaced cross-hatched micropatterns in WC-Co green compacts. A contact angle of 33.5° was obtained for the experiment with a groove and peak width of 250 μm and 3 laser passages, resulting in a 27% reduction, when compared with an untextured cutting tool (45.8°). This approach was found effective to improve the wettability of WC-Co cutting tools.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank PhD Eduardo Silva and PhD Filipe Oliveira from University of Aveiro for helping in the 3D optical profilometry analysis.

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This work was supported by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) through the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030353 (SMARTCUT) and also by the project NORTE 01-0145, FEDER-000018 (HAMaBICo). Additionally, this work is supported by FCT with the reference project UID/EEA/04436/2019.

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  1. Center for MicroElectroMechanical Systems (CMEMS-UMinho), University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058, Guimaraes, Portugal

    B. Guimarães, O. Carvalho, F. S. Silva & G. Miranda

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Guimarães, B., Fernandes, C.M., Figueiredo, D. et al. Effect of laser surface texturing on the wettability of WC-Co cutting tools. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 111, 1991–1999 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-06155-3

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