Cooling Performance of Turning M2 steel by using copper nanofluids

Ganesan, K.; Naresh Babu, M.; Gurusamy, P.; Santhanakumar, M.

doi:10.24200/sci.2023.60857.7026

Cooling Performance of Turning M2 steel by using copper nanofluids

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¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jaya Engineering College, Chennai 602024, India

² Department of Mechanical Engineering, Easwari Engineering College, Ramapuram, Chennai 600089, India

³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chennai Institute of Technology, Kundrathur, Chennai 600069, India

⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, GRT institute of Engineering and Technology, Tiruttani 631209, India

10.24200/sci.2023.60857.7026

Abstract

Minimum quantity Lubrication (MQL) is a technique used to reduce the utilization of cutting liquids in accomplishing a perfect and well-disposed condition. In this examination, the machinability of M2 steel which is hard-to-machine material utilized in key applications was researched under three separate cutting strategies such as dry environment, oil environment, and copper nanofluids with minimum quantity lubrication as environment. The turning tests were conducted utilizing carbide inserts on five separate cutting speed with constant feed and depth of cut. The maximum roughness value obtained with dry condition is 3.75 µm, for oil is 1.7 µm and nanofluid is 0.81 µm. The extreme flank wear values attained is 0.16 mm, 0.055 mm and 0.04 mm for dry, oil and nanofluid conditions. The reduced value of surface roughness (0.45 µm) and flank wear (0.04 mm) were obtained when the machining was performed under copper nanofluid as a coolant.

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