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THE MINIMUM ENERGY PRINCIPLE APPLIED TO THE CUTTING PROCESS OF VARIOUS WORKPIECE MATERIALS AND TOOL RAKE ANGLES. Auteurs: J.H. Dautzenberg J.A.W. Hij ink A.C.H. van der Wolf WPT-Rapport nr.: 0529. To be published in: Annals of the CIRP vol. 31/1/1982. -1- THE MINIMUM ENERGY PRINCIPLE APPLIED TO THE CUTTING PROCESS OF VARIOUS WORKPIECE MATERIALS AND TOOL RAKE ANGLES, SUMMARY. Recently, a cutting model has been developed based on plasticity theory. Thus, a relation between the normalized frictional force and the shear angle has been obtained. In the model the tool geometry is represented by the tool rake angle while the workpiece material properties are governed by two plasticity material constants: the strain hardening exponent and the specific stress. The theoretical result was tested experimentally on a small scale. In the present work, this testing is expanded to a great number of workpiece materials with different strain hardening exponents and specific stresses ranging from normal steels to alloyed steels as well as to a non-iron-metal. The rake angle of the tool is varied over the whole technically applied range. For each workpiece material and tool rake angle the cutting conditions are varied to a great extent, Different methods to determine the shear angle are tested and discussed. In addition to this, it is shown that the upper bound theorem from the plasticity theory leads to the same results as the minimum energy principle formerly applied. -2- 1. INTRODUCT ION In