Influence of tool rake angle on the quality of pure magnesium chip-consolidated product.pdf

I c A D a A R R A K C O R C E L 1 h f i i r m t G t t s o s c t s ( o g t 0 dJournal of Materials Processing Technology 210 (2010) 423?C428 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Materials Processing Technology journa l homepage: www.e lsev ier .com/ locate / jmatprotec nfluence of tool rake angle on the quality of pure magnesium hip-consolidated product .R. Anilchandra, M.K. Surappa ? epartment of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India r t i c l e i n f o rticle history: eceived 14 October 2008 eceived in revised form 5 October 2009 ccepted 6 October 2009 a b s t r a c t Chips were produced by orthogonal cutting of cast pure magnesium billet with three different tool rake angles viz., ?15?, ?5? and +15? on a lathe. Chip consolidation by solid state recycling technique involved cold compaction followedbyhot extrusion. The extrudedproductswere characterized formicrostructure and mechanical properties. Chip-consolidated products from ?15? rake angle tool showed 19% increase in tensile strength, 60% reduction in grain size and 12% increase in hardness compared to +15? rake chip-eywords: hips rthogonal cutting ake angle onsolidation consolidated product indicating better chip bonding and grain refinement. Microstructure of the fracture specimen supports the above findings. On the overall, the present work highlights the importance of tool rake angle in determining the quality of the chip-consolidated products. ? 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.xtrusion athe . Introduction Wastes emanating from the machine shop in the form of chips ave been amajor challenge for the industry and environmentalists orm various angles. Although recycling of such wastes by melt- ng and further processing has been widely adopted, it is energy ntensive and expensive process. Mabuchi et al. (1995) showed that these machined chips can be ecycled by circumventing the melting route by hot extruding the achined chips. Such solid st