The purpose of this work is to study the wear mechanisms in several geometries of ceramic tools (Al2O3 + SiCw and Al2O3 + TiC) and PCBN tools. Several high speed turning experiments were accomplished in nickel-base superalloy (Waspaloy) with hardness of approximately 40 HRC under dry cutting condition. The nickel based superalloys are known as difficult to cut materials due to their high hardness, high mechanical straight at high temperature, chemical affinity to tool materials and lower thermal conductivity. The results showed that the material of the tool and geometry influence the behavior of wear mechanisms. In general, the dominant type of wear was notching and the mechanisms were abrasion, attrition and probable diffusion in most of the used tools.
High-speed machining (HSM); nickel based superalloys; wear mechanisms and ceramic and PCBN tools
