Experimental Study on Wear and Fracture of Ball-End Milling Cutter in High Speed Machining Stainless Steel 0Cr13Ni4Mo

An experimental study on wear and fracture of ball-end milling cutter in high speed machining martensitic stainless steel 0Cr13Ni4Mo is studied in this work. Through the SEM micrographs and energy spectrum analysis of the wear pattern of the rake face, severe coating spalling is found near the main cutting edge. Fracture is seen on the entire cutting edge, in which micro-chipping occurs on the both ends of the cutting edge, and chipping occurs in the middle of the cutting edge and is the conchoidal spalling on the rake face. Combined with the high-speed photography of the milling process, the fracture area is consistent with the chip-adhesion area.