Numerical modeling and analysis of Ti6Al4V alloy chip for biomedical applications

Saleem, Waqas and Salah, Bashir and Velay, Xavier and Ahmad, Rafiq and Khan, Razaullah and Pruncu, Catalin I (2020) Numerical modeling and analysis of Ti6Al4V alloy chip for biomedical applications. Materials, 13 (22). 5236. ISSN 1996-1944 (https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13225236)

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Abstract

The influence of cutting forces during the machining of titanium alloys has attained prime attention in selecting the optimal cutting conditions to improve the surface integrity of medical implants and biomedical devices. So far, it has not been easy to explain the chip morphology of Ti6Al4V and the thermo-mechanical interactions involved during the cutting process. This paper investigates the chip configuration of the Ti6Al4V alloy under dry milling conditions at a macro and micro scale by employing the Johnson-Cook material damage model. 2D modeling, numerical milling simulations, and post-processing were conducted using the Abaqus/Explicit commercial software. The uncut chip geometry was modeled with variable thicknesses to accomplish the macro to micro-scale cutting by adapting a trochoidal path. Numerical results, predicted for the cutting reaction forces and shearing zone temperatures, were found in close approximation to experimental ones with minor deviations. Further analyses evaluated the influence of cutting speeds and contact friction coefficients over the chip flow stress, equivalent plastic strain, and chip morphology. The methodology developed can be implemented in resolving the industrial problems in the biomedical sector for predicting the chip morphology of the Ti6Al4V alloy, fracture mechanisms of hard-to-cut materials, and the effects of different cutting parameters on workpiece integrity.

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Saleem, Waqas, Salah, Bashir, Velay, Xavier, Ahmad, Rafiq, Khan, Razaullah and Pruncu, Catalin I ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4926-2189;
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