The present paper details a simple and effective experimental procedure dedicated to strain measurement during orthogonal cutting operations. It relies on the use of high frame-rate camera and optical microscopy. A numerical post-procedure is also proposed in order to allow particle tracking from Digital Image Correlation (DIC). Therefore strain accumulation within finite strains framework is achieved. The significant magnitude of the calculated strains is partially due to a singular side effect that leads to local material disjunction. The strain localization in the Adiabatic Shear Band (ASB) exhibits different strain paths at various locations along this band and a non-linear evolution of the strain accumulation. A focus is made on the formation mechanisms of serrated chips obtained from Ti6Al4V titanium alloy. The side observation performed during this work allow to proposed three possible scenarios to explain this very phenomenon.

a b s t r a c tThe chip formation mechanism of the Ti-6Al-4V remains a challenging problem in the machining process as well as its modeling and simulation. Starting from experimental observation on the titanium alloys Ti-6Al-4V machining shows that the ductile fracture in the chip formation is dominated by the shear phenomenon under high strain rate and temperature, the present work develops a new coupled behavior and damage model for better representation and understanding of the chip formation process. The behavior and damage of Ti-6Al-4V have been studied via hat-shaped specimen under temperature up to 900 °C and strain rate up to 1000 s − 1 . An inverse identification method based on Finite Element (FE) is established in order to determine the constitutive law's parameters. The prediction of the segmented chip was analyzed through 3D finite element orthogonal cutting model which was validated by an in-situ and post-mortem orthogonal cutting machining observations. Finally, a particular attention is focused on the chip formation genesis which is described by three steps: Growth, Germination and Extraction.