DEVELOPMENT OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS PREDICTION MODEL FOR HARD TURNING ON AISI D2 STEEL USING CUBIC BORON NITRIDE INSERT

Hard turning is an alternative to traditional grinding in the manufacturing industry for hardened ferrous alloy material above 45 HRC. Hard turning has advantages such as lower equipment cost, shorter setup time, fewer process steps, greater part geometry flexibility and elimination of cutting fluid. In this study, the effect of cutting speed and feed rate on surface roughness in hard turning was experimentally investigated. AISI D2 steel workpiece (62 HRC) was machined with Cubic Boron Nitride (CBN) insert under dry machining. A 2(k)-factorial design with 4 centre points as an initial design of experiment (DOE) and a central composite design (CCD) as augmented design were used in developing the empirical mathematical models. They were employed for analysing the significant machining parameters. The results show that the surface roughness value decreased (smoother) with increasing cutting speed. In contrary, surface roughness value increased significantly when the feed rate increased. Optimum cutting speed and feed rate condition in this experiment was 105 m/min and 0.10 mm/rev respectively with surface roughness value was 0.267 mu m. Further investigation revealed that the second order model is a valid surface roughness model, while the linear model cannot be used as a predicted model due to its lack of fit significance.