Thermal-Mechanical Effect on Temperature/Stress Distribution when Orthogonal Cutting Bearing Steel

An explicit dynamic coupled thermal-mechanical Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) model was established to simulate orthogonal cutting AISI 52100 bearing steel, and its temperature and stress distribution. Based on ABAQUS, The ALE approach effectively simulates plastic flow around round edge of the cutting tool without employing chip separation criteria. The calculation results reveal that cutting speed and cutting depth have great impact on chip morphology, stress and temperature distribution in the finished surface and subsurface, the predicted temperature agrees well with experiment data obtained under the similar cutting conditions as well as the change in chip morphology from continuous to sawtooth as the cutting speed increases.