Reducing energy consumption is a demanding issue considering the limited available energy resources and increasing environmental pollution. On the other hand, industry consumes a huge amount of energy, and manufacturing processes are the most energy consuming portions of the industry. Machining issues including cutting tool geometry and process parameters affect the cutting forces and also production consuming energy. By increasing cutting forces, the tool life would be reduced and therewith cost of machining process increases. In this work, the effect of machining condition on cutting force and energy consumption studied in turning process during validated FE analysis using ALE method. So, the effect of rake angle, tool edge radius and cutting speed was investigated on the cutting force, plastic strain and plastic consuming energy. Results proved that these parameters are effective on plastic energy consumption in turning process among them cutting speed has more effect on the plastic energy. By increasing the cutting speed, the plastic energy decreases considerably. Rake angle is also effective on process energy consumption and the combination of increasing the rake angle and cutting speed, and choosing the optimal edge radius leads to the minimized plastic energy. پرونده مقاله

Rene-80 nickel-base superalloy as an alloy for production of the jet turbine blades shows high mechanical properties as well as microstructure stability during the high temperature engine operation. In this research, age hardening heat treatment cycle was done on the as-cast Rene-80 superalloy. In the following, microstructure, elemental analysis of phases and macro-hardness of the alloy before and after of heat treatment were compared together with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observation, X-ray spectrometry (EDS) and hardness test, respectively. The obtained results showed that γ’ carbide particles in the as-cast alloy had cubic morphology, while these particles showed more spherical morphology after heat treatment and also the amount of this phase was reduced after heat treatment. Based on hardness test results, hardness of as-cast sample was reduce from 38.17 to 35.01 HRC after age hardening heat treatment, which can be due to the reduction of carbide particles and their morphological modification. پرونده مقاله