A Machining Program Employing a Slip Line Field Modelling Technique Over Other Constitutive Models

Machining involves complex plastic material flow at the chip separation site which makes it difficult to predict forces and other machining outputs to higher accuracy. Modelling is a common technique which facilitates incorporation of analytical and experimentally derived equations to visualize the process and analyses the mechanism. It saves time and machining factors can be optimized without any trial and error method. In this paper, the significance of slip line field model over other constitutive laws in defining the complex regions in machining are thoroughly reviewed and a slip line field model is chosen which incorporates build up edge (BUE) of a larger size than the other previously defined slip line models for machining. The modified model also incorporate a region of shear zone instead of a shear line, takes into account the chip curl effect and conform to the velocity discontinuity and stress equilibrium. The slip line fields are generated using MATLAB and employing Dewhurst-Collin's matrix technique.