Tribological and Morphological Study of AISI 316L Stainless Steel during Turning under Different Lubrication Conditions

Due to growing environmental concerns and economical social problems in manufacturing sectors, there is a huge demand for the substitution of existing cutting fluids. Further, fluids selected are expected reduce force, improve surface roughness also minimize tool wear during machining operations. Hence, this paper discusses tribological morphological behaviour AISI 316L stainless steel while turning under minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) such as oil–water emulsion, mineral oil, simarouba pongam oil neem based on Taguchi L25 orthogonal array. From extensive experimentation, it was observed that MQL with speed (140, 140, 60 m/min), feed (0.30, 0.20, 0.10 mm/rev) depth cut (1.0, 1.0, 1.0 mm) resulted lowest (0.36 µm),cutting force (235.34 N) (100.32 microns), respectively. main effects plots analysis variance (ANOVA)can be successfully used identify optimum process input parameters their percentage contribution (P%) output applications. The results clearly indicate from both an ecological standpoint, most effective lubricant reducing forces, MQL.