There is a direct relationship between the efficiency of mechanized excavation in hard rocks and that of disc cutters. Disc cutter wear is an important effective factor involved in the functionality of tunnel boring machines. Replacement of disc cutters is a time-consuming and costly activity that can significantly reduce the TBM utilization and advance rate, and has a major effect on the total...

Original scientific paper Aiming at answering the questions of wear and failure of hob in the rock breaking process, the rock breaking process was simulated in different broken rock conditions by using finite element method. The relationship between normal force, lateral force, rolling force and time was obtained by rock breaking simulation analysis on the single edge disc cutter. The rock stre...

Disc cutter is Full face rock tunnel boring machine (TBM) important rock breaking tool, cutting heat generation has an important influence on cutter life, disc cutter cutting temperature characteristic research be imperative. Based on heat conduction theory to establish disc cutter cutting temperature heat conduction model, and derive its solution; analyze influence on disc cutter cutting tempe...

To replace the worn-out cutter of tunnel boring machines timely, it is crucial to inspect cutter’s wear. In this work, a novel detection method based on magnetic force proposed overcome drawback nonlinearity in current detecting technology. The principle that between and permanent magnet linearly decreases with increasing Firstly, investigated by finite element simulation find optimal placement...

Carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) have good physical properties, such as high specific strength and high specific modulus. However, cutting delamination, tearing and burr, etc. often occur in the machining process of CFRP, which results in the uncontrollability of machining surface quality and serious tool wear. In this paper, milling of CFRP with a staggered cutter was carried out, the c...

A novel optimization methodology for the disc cutter designs of tunnel boring machines (TBM) was presented. To fully understand the characteristics and performance of TBM cutters, a comprehensive list of performance parameters were investigated, including maximum equivalent stress and strain, specific energy and wear life which were closely related to the cutting forces and profile geometry of ...