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A study on lubrication and cooling performance and machining characteristics of magnetic field–assisted minimum quantity lubrication using Fe3O4 nanofluid as cutting fluid

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As an effective alternative to traditional pouring lubrication method, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) has been recognized by more and more scholars and applied in factories. However, there are still some technical shortcomings in the application of traditional oil-based MQL technology, such as poor cooling capacity and low lubrication efficiency. Aiming at the technical defects of oil-based MQL, a magnetic field–assisted minimum quantity lubrication (mMQL) technology using Fe3O4 nanofluid as cutting fluid was proposed. First, MQL equipment with controllable magnetic field was built, and the contact angle, surface tension, and dynamic viscosity of Fe3O4 nanofluid droplets were measured under different magnetic induction intensities. Based on these variation parameters of physical properties of the magnetic nanofluid droplets, the influence of magnetic induction on the droplet penetrability was subsequently analyzed. Finally, the heat transfer performance and machining characteristics of the nanofluid droplets under different magnetic inductions were compared and investigated. Results showed that the Fe3O4 nanofluid droplets exhibited lower contact angle and higher viscosity under the influence of magnetic field, thus showing better penetrability and heat transfer performance. Compared with traditional vegetable oil MQL, the cutting temperature, tool wear, and cutting force under mMQL were reduced by ~ 35.5%, ~ 52.4%, and ~ 43.2%, respectively. Under the influence of magnetic field, the contact angle of magnetic droplets was decreased, and the contact area between the droplets and heat transfer surface was larger, which led to the improvement of droplet evaporation heat transfer efficiency. In addition, the penetrability of Fe3O4 nanofluid assisted by magnetic field was improved, more nanofluid could penetrate into the tool–chip contact area, and finally improved its lubrication and cooling efficiency.

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This study was financially supported by General Scientific Research Projects of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education (project no. Y202043602), Ningbo Natural Science Foundation (project no. 202003N4190), National Natural Science Foundation of China (project no. 52275468), National Scientific Research Cultivation Project of Ningbo Polytechnic (NZ22GJ003).

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  1. Precision Mold Processing and Intelligent Manufacturing Research Center, Ningbo Polytechnic, 288 Lushan Road, Ningbo, 315800, China

    Tao Lv

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Ningbo University, 818 Fenghua Road, Ningbo, 315211, China

    Tao Lv & Aibing Yu

  3. Ministry of Education of Special Equipment Manufacturing and Advanced Processing Technology of Zhejiang University of Technology/Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory, 288 Liuhe Road, Hangzhou, 310014, Zhejiang, China

    Xuefeng Xu & Xiaodong Hu

  4. Zhejiang Fangyuan Test Group Co., Ltd, 115 Happy South Road, Hangzhou, 310018, Zhejiang, China

    Haizhou Weng

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University, 38 Zheda Road, Hangzhou, 310007, Zhejiang, China

    Chengcheng Niu

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Conceptualization: TL, XX. Methodology: TL, HW. Original draft writing: TL, CN. Investigation: TL, HW. Review: XX, AY, XH. Language editing: TL, AY. Supervision: TL, XX. Financial support: TL, XX.

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Lv, T., Xu, X., Weng, H. et al. A study on lubrication and cooling performance and machining characteristics of magnetic field–assisted minimum quantity lubrication using Fe3O4 nanofluid as cutting fluid. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 123, 3857–3869 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-10500-z

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