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Title: Brief Paper: A Preliminary Study on the Dynamics of Modulated Turning (MT) With Spindle Speed Variation (SSV)
This paper proposes a novel strategy to enhance dynamic stability of turning processes. It presents a novel assistive strategy, which combines Spindle Speed Variation (SSV) and Sinusoidal Tool Modulations to dramatically improve chatter stability of high-speed turning. Chatter vibrations are a type of self-exiting vibrations that originate due to the dynamic flexibilities in the machine/workpiece/tool. Once chatter is triggered, it rapidly grows to destroy the surface finish, harms the tool and even the machine tool components. Chatter is the most limiting factor restricting productivity and attenable material removal rates (MRR) in most high-speed turning operations. A well-known strategy to improve chatter stability in turning is to use SSV. Continuously varying the spindle speed helps disturb and weaken the regenerative effect (regenerations) and thus improve chatter stability. Most recently, it is also reported that adding sinusoidal tool modulations also help improve chatter stability. This process is called the modulated turning (MT), and sinusoidal tool modulations cause the tool to disengage from the workpiece (cut) repeatedly introducing time for the regeneration effect to die out. This paper, for the first time, proposes to utilize sinusoidal tool modulations and SSV at the same time to assist and improve chatter stability of turning even further. The semi-discrete time domain approach is utilized to analyze chatter stability of this newly created turning process. It is observed, that jointly using tool modulations and SSV provides greater asymptotic chatter stability margins enabling average 10∼20% greater material removal rates to be achieved. Furthermore, it modifies existing stability lobes and helps create additional lobes, which may be utilized to maximize material removal rate at other desired target spindle speeds. Overall, joint application of SSV and tool modulations provide greater stability in turning.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2019370
PAR ID:
10547976
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Date Published:
ISBN:
978-0-7918-8811-7
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
machining dynamics chatter turning
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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