Complexity Modeling of Steel-Laser-Hardened Surface Microstructures

Microstructure and Hardness of Surface Melting Hardened Zone of Mold Steel, SM45C using Yb:YAG Disk Laser

This study applied laser surface melting process using CW(Continuous wave) Yb:YAG laser and cold-work die steel SM45C and investigated microstructure and hardness. Laser beam speed, power and beam interval are fixed at 70 mm/sec, 2.8 kW and 800 μm respectively. Depth of Hardening layer(Melting zone) was a minimum of 0.8 mm and a maximum of 1.0 mm that exceeds the limit of minimum depth 0.5 mm a...

Experimental Study & Modeling of Surface Roughness in Turning of Hardened AISI 4340 Steel Using Coated Carbide Inserted

Turning of hardened steels using a single point cutting tool has replaced the cylindrical grinding now as it offers attractive benefits in terms of lower equipment costs, shorter set up time, fewer process setups, higher material removal rate, better surface quality and elimination of cutting fluids compared to cylindrical grinding. In order to obtain desired surface quality by machining, pr...

Optical modeling of laser ablated microstructures

Finite Element Analysis of Hardened Steel Cutting

Hard machining, as attractive replacement for many rough and finish grinding operation, generates high cutting forces and temperature that enhance tool wear when act together. Therefore, the tool geometry and machining parameters have to be carefully optimized for a given material. Because of high cost and time consuming experimental work up-to-date advanced software for modeling and simulation...

Neural Network Modeling and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) of Process Parameters in Pulsed Laser Micromachining of Hardened AISI H13 Steel

Neural Network Modeling and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) of Process Parameters in Pulsed Laser Micromachining of Hardened AISI H13 Steel J. Ciurana a; G. Arias b; T. Ozel c a Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Construction, Universitat de Girona, Spain b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain c Department of Industrial and Systems...