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Mechanics of Materials

Volume 77, October 2014, Pages 43-51
Mechanics of Materials

Identification of plasticity constants from orthogonal cutting and inverse analysis

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Highlights

  • Identification of Johnson Cook constitutive model constants for closely related materials.

  • Plasticity constants predictions through inverse analysis with Kalman filter.

  • Identification of plasticity constants based on cutting process parameters.

Abstract

The aim of this work is that from experimental determined cutting process parameters be able to predict the plasticity input constants to Finite Element Method (FEM) models. In the present study the Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants are determined on the basis of cutting process parameters in orthogonal cutting and by use of inverse analysis. Previously established links between Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants and cutting process parameters in the cutting process such as primary cutting force and chip compression ratio is used serve as a starting point in the inverse analysis. As a reference material AISI 4140 has been chosen in this study, which is a tempered steel. The Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants in the reference material are being changed within an interval of ±30%. The inverse analysis is performed using a Kalman filter. The material model for the reference material is validated on the basis of the experimental results in previous work. The model showed to predict the cutting process parameters with a high level of accuracy. The predicted Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants in the present study achieve an error between simulated- and experimental cutting process parameters of maximum 2%. The method described in this study is not limited to identify Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants, but the method can also be used for other constitutive models. The same applies to the process itself and the selected cutting process parameters, but orthogonal cutting has been used to illustrate and validate this method.

Introduction

The reliability of numerical models such as FEM depends on various mechanical properties such as elastic constants, flow stress and fracture, these serve as material constants in constitutive models. In addition for a coupled thermo-mechanical simulation thermo-physical constants, such as thermal conductivity, heat capacity and plastic deformation energy also comes into account. For a simulation where contact between bodies is present, the contact conditions at interfaces both mechanical and thermal also need to be defined. All three of these aspects have to be taken into account when simulating a machining process. The Johnson–Cook plasticity model is widely used today to simulate materials subjected to high a temperature and strain rate gradients which are the case in a machining process. The Johnson–Cook plasticity model has been successfully used by many researchers to simulate various aspects of the machining process such as temperature distribution in the workpiece (Chen et al., 2004, Özel and Zeren, 2007), cutting forces (Hortig and Svendsen, 2007, Uhlmann et al., 2007), residual stresses in the machined surface (Mabrouki et al., 2008, Umbrello et al., 2007), strain in the deformation zones (Pujana et al., 2007, Zouhar and Piska, 2008) and chip formation characteristics (Akbar et al., 2010, Zhang et al., 2011). FEM simulation of manufacturing processes has been found to be a cost effective method of analyzing such processes, serving to keep the amount of experimental work and the resources needed at a minimum. This is in the line with use of a sustainable production approach.

A drawback when using FEM to simulate a cutting process however, is the lack of input data to the material models involved. There is thus a need of establishing a robust link between experimental data and the material constants of the constitutive models. Achieving this would considerably reduce the efforts needed to find input constants to FEM models. The development of these plasticity constants for the cutting process has been studied from different viewpoints. First, through the use and adjustment of laboratory testing experiments for the construction of material constitutive laws in conditions similar to those encountered in machining operations, such as Split-Hopkinson’s (Chandrasekaran and M’saoubi, 2005, Jaspers and Dautzenberg, 2002), second by the use of analytical cutting models (Tounsi et al., 2002) or numerical (Fallböhmer and Altan, 1997) in a combination with an inverse analysis.

Due to the severe deformation conditions present in the cutting process, it is possible to reach strains of the order of magnitude 1–2, strain rates higher than 104 s−1, temperatures up to 1000 °C and temperature rates up to the order of 106 °C s−1 (Arsecularatne and Zhang, 2004). These experimental tests methods, such as Split-Hopkinson’s, however are not able to produce as high strain rates or temperature rates that are present in the machining process deformation zones. Therefore it is desired to tune the constants in the constitutive models with experimental data from the actual cutting process.

How the Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants affect the cutting process parameters of the cutting process, such as chip compression ratio, cutting forces, temperatures and deformation zones was investigated in (Agmell et al., 2013). For simulation of the cutting process, even in a simplified orthogonal case, one can identify about 30 different cutting process parameters of interest related to tool development and analysis of the machinability of the workpiece material. The material that has been simulated is AISI 4140 where the FEM model used in (Agmell et al., 2011) has been employed and Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants being changed within the interval of ±30%. The present study was carried out to obtain a better understanding of how the Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants should vary within a material group according to the ISO standard having cutting process parameters that are similar. In the work reported on here, the variation of the cutting process parameters is studied for each of the Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants respectively, when they are changed by ±15% and ±30% for each constant. A polynomial function of the fourth order is interpolated between these data points. An inverse analysis using a Kalman filter is performed in order to determine the Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants. The Kalman filter has been successfully used for inverse identification of mechanical properties in Aoki et al., 1997, Bocciarelli et al., 2005, Delalleau et al., 2006, Nakamura and Gu, 2007 which suggest that it can be a feasible method. To validate the method and the estimated Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants, new FEM simulations of the cutting process was carried out; the cutting process parameters obtained are then compared with experimental values from the experiments performed.

Section snippets

Machining mechanics and theoretical aspects

The parameters that will be presented in this section are general cutting parameters used to describe an orthogonal cutting process. The uncut chip thickness h1 is defined as the uncut thickness of the chip or the distance between the surface prior to machining and the newly formed surface. The cutting speed vc of a machining operation is defined as the relative speed of the workpiece to the cutting edge. The friction at interface between the tool and the workpiece decelerates the chip, which

Experimental investigation

The experimental tests were performed on a cylindrical tube with a thickness of 4 mm. The uncut chip thickness was set to 0.10 mm for all of the experimental tests. The cutting tests were performed in a lathe of the fabricate, Monforts RNC 700 Single Turn. The cutting forces was measured with a cutting force sensor of the fabricate Kistler Z15814. The chip compression ratio was determined with a micrometer: Mitutoyo No. 422-260. The experimental data for the cutting force was based on

Inverse analysis

The Kalman filter, is an inverse analysis technique used in several engineering applications. The algorithm is utilized here to estimate five unknown Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants on the basis of two experimentally measured cutting process parameters. In the formulation employed, the five unknown constants are represented in state vector form as xt = (At, Bt, Ct, nt, mt)T. At time t = 0 the initial estimates are assigned where x0 = (A0, B0, C0, n0, m0)T and the equation that follows are

Material model

The tool was modeled as a cemented carbide material and the reference material of the workpiece was modeled as AISI 4140. The general thermal and mechanical properties are presented in details in Table 2. Since the specific heat of the workpiece material is highly temperature-dependent a temperature-dependent model was employed, see Fig. 5. The Johnson Cook constitutive model was employed to model the plasticity of the workpiece material, which was developed by Johnson and Cook (1983). This

Finite element model

The orthogonal cutting process was simulated by use of a two dimensional model in ABAQUS/Explicit v6.12-3, with a fully coupled thermo-mechanical analysis being performed. The ALE formulation with use of Lagrangian boundary conditions was employed in this model. The time integration of the model was an explicit scheme. The workpiece length was chosen to be 5 mm and its height to be 2 mm. The cutting tool had a clearance angle α of 5°, a rake angle γ of 0°, an edge radius of rβ = 50 μm, and a height

Results

There are a vast number of cutting process parameters that can be studied in a FEM simulation of orthogonal cutting. For example strain in the deformation zones, temperature distribution in the workpiece material, the angle of the shear plane, cutting forces, chip thickness ratio, stagnation zone and strain rate in the shear band. Some of these cutting process parameters dependence of Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants have been investigated in Agmell et al. (2012). In this study two of

Conclusions

This study shows that, through employing an inverse procedure based on use of a Kalman filter and metal cutting experiments, one can identify plasticity constants for FEM simulations in the form of Johnson–Cook constitutive model constants. The principle involved assumes, that there is a reference workpiece material with similar metal cutting behavior characteristics and well-known plasticity constants. The inverse procedure of finding the plasticity constants is a time effective method, an

Acknowledgments

This research is a part of the ShortCut research project financed by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research SSF. It is also a part of the strategic research program of the Sustainable Production Initiative SPI, involving cooperation between Lund University and Chalmers University of Technology. The authors would like to thank Seco Tools for providing the necessary tools. A special thanks to Rachid M’Saoubi, Christer Bäck and Tommy Lethola for assisting in the experimental work. The

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