Experimental Investigation of Machining AISI 1040 Medium Carbon Steel Under Cryogenic Machining: A Comparison with Dry Machining

This experimental work was carried out by turning of AISI 1040 medium carbon steel in which the effect of cryogenic cooling (LN2) used as a cutting fluid is compared to that of dry machining with respect to tool wear i.e. crater and flank wear, surface roughness, cutting forces (feed and cutting forces) and cutting temperature. Experiments were performed using uncoated tungsten carbide insert tool having various feed rate and constant cutting speed. Compared to dry machining, in LN2 machining, overall the tool wear were reduced to 55.45 and 65.53 %, surface roughness was reduced to 125.90 % and forces were reduced to 61.94 and 96.60 %. The experimental results proved that the application of cryogenic coolant overall increases the machining performance as compared to dry machining.