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Effect of microstructure on high-speed cutting modified anti-fatigue performance of Incoloy A286 and titanium alloy TC17

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Anti-fatigue performance is vital for components used in aerospace industry, and cutting processes were widely considered to modify the workpiece anti-fatigue performance. However, most of the existing researches only associated the anti-fatigue performance to the cutting condition and surface integrity, without revealing the effect of material microstructure. In this work, the Incoloy A286 and titanium alloy TC17, two kinds of commonly used material in aerospace industry, were adopted as samples to reveal the influence mechanism of material microstructure on the high-speed cutting modified anti-fatigue performance. It was found that, due to the different microstructure, especially the grain structure and size, the effects of cutting process on the machined surface integrity and anti-fatigue performance of these two materials were different. For Incoloy A286, the large size and cubic structure increased the difficulty in deformation and breaking of grains, making the cutting parameters have limited effect on grain refinement. Hence, the fracture toughness of machined surfaces decreased on the whole with an increased feed rate and depth of cut, which reduced the fatigue life. For titanium alloy TC17, the small lath-shaped grains were easy to deform and break, resulting in the notably grain refinement of machined surfaces, which contributed to the prolonged fatigue life when the feed rate and depth of cut increased. All in all, the material microstructure may change the effect rule of cutting process on the machined workpiece anti-fatigue performance, and thus the cutting condition should be designed by considering the material microstructure.

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This work is financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 52005281), Major Program of Shandong Province Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. ZR2018ZA0401), and Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Grant No. ZR2020QE181 and ZR2019BEE026).

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  1. School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, 266033, China

    Guoliang Liu & Shufeng Sun

  2. Center for Advanced Jet Engineering Technologies (CaJET), Key Laboratory of High-efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture (Ministry of Education), National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Mechanical Engineering (Shandong University), School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, China

    Chuanzhen Huang

  3. College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, China

    Wei Wang

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LGL conducted most of the experiments and wrote the manuscript. HCZ guided the overall design and analysis of the experiments. SSF and WW helped to measure some of the surface integrity parameters. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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1. Cutting process can modify workpiece surface integrity and anti-fatigue performance.

2. Material microstructure can change the effect rule of cutting process on anti-fatigue performance.

3. Effect of surface integrity on anti-fatigue performance of titanium alloy TC17 was revealed.

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Liu, G., Huang, C., Sun, S. et al. Effect of microstructure on high-speed cutting modified anti-fatigue performance of Incoloy A286 and titanium alloy TC17. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 113, 855–866 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-06514-0

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