Austenitic stainless steel (304L) is one of the most important engineering materials with wide variety of applications because of its properties such as high hardness, toughness, yield strength, excellent ductility, and superior resistance to corrosion and oxidation. However, their machinability is more difficult as compared to other alloy steels due to low thermal conductivity, high built-up edge (BUE) formation tendency and high deformation hardening. Hence, the aim of this paper is to study the performance of different coated carbide inserts and to find out the optimum parameters while dry machining of SS304 L. The design of experiment was done using design expert, where cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and nose radius were taken as input parameters. The output responses were the surface roughness and tool wear. Total nine experiments were performed on CNC lathe machine using coated carbide, uncoated carbide and ceramite inserts. The overall results revealed that the optimum flank wear are found 0.12 mm against a combination of input parameters i.e. cutting speed 75m/min, feed rate 0.05mm/rev, depth of cut 0.25 mm using coated carbide inserts. Similarly, the optimum surface roughness were found 0.4 mm against a combination of input parameters i.e. cutting speed 125m/min, feed rate 0.05mm/rev, depth of cut 0.75mm using a tool uncoated carbide inserts. Keywords: Dry turning, CNC, Inserts, steel, cutting speed
I.INTRODUCTION Steels represent the most important engineering materials as they have the widest diversity of applications of any of the engineering materials. Basic classes of steel are: plain carbon steels and alloy steels. In plain carbon steels the amount of alloying elements are negligible as compared to carbon, hence do not have the effect on the properties of the steels. Further according to the percentage of carbon (1.0%wt.Max) the plain carbon steels are classified as: low carbon steel, medium carbon steel and high carbon steel. Whereas allow steels are those steels in when one or more allowing elements are added in sufficient amount intestinally to the plain carbon steels to induce the required properties. Stainless steel is the sub class of allow steels containing various allowing elements: chromium, silicon, nickel, manganese and molybdenum. Stainless steels are stainless as these have minimum of 11.5%chromium in them,which having more affinity for oxygen than iron. Chromium forms a very thin, protective and stable oxide (Cr 2 O 3 ) film on the surface [1][2]. This film is continuous, impervious and passive to stop further reaction between the steel and the surrounding atmosphere. Thus chromium imparts to the steels corrosion resistance, oxidation resistance and pleasing appearance. Apart from the essential element chromium, the stainless steels also contain nickel, molybdenum and manganese to enhance other properties and improve the corrosion resistance. Stainless steels have become versatile because of its properties; good corrosion and oxidation resistance, good creep strengt...