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Archived in http://dspace.nitrkl.ac.in/dspace Published in The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Volume 28, Numbers 5-6 / March, 2006 /10.1007/s00170-004-2376-0 S S Panda is presently with National Institute of Technology Rourkela sspanda@nitrkl.ac.in Drill wear prediction using artificial neural network A.K.?Singh1, S.S.?Panda1, D.?Chakraborty1? and S.K.?Pal2 (1)? Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, 781039, Assam, India (2)? Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302, INB, India Abstract The present work deals with drill wear monitoring using artificial neural network. A back propagation neural network (BPNN) has been used to predict the flank wear of high speed steel (HSS) drill bit for drilling holes on copper work-piece. Experiments have been carried out over a wide range of cutting conditions and the effect of various process parameter like feeed-rate, spindle speed, drill diameter on thrust force and torque has been studied. The data thus obtained from the experiments have been used to train a BPNN for wear prediction. The performance of the trained neural network has been tested with the experimental data and found to be satisfactory. Keywords Flank wear Artificial neural networkDrilling 1 Introduction Drilling is one of the important machining operations extensively used in manufacturing industries. Tool wear has significant influence on the performance of machining operation. During machining tool wear affects the tool life and surface finish of the machine component. In case of drilling, wear is categorized as flank wear, chisel wear, corner wear, and crater wear. Wear on the drill has a definitive influence on the hole quality and tool life of drill bit. Therefore online monitoring of drill wear is a very important issue in manufacturing industries and thus an emergent area of research. Many works have been reported in the broad field of