
| Cat. | No. | Name of Failure | Cause of Failure |
| Resulting from Mechanical causes | 1~5 6 7 | Flank Wear Chipping Fracture | Due to the scratching effect of hard grains contained in the work material. Fine breakages caused by high cutting loads or chattering. Due to the impact of an excessive mechanical force acting on the cutting edge. |
| Resulting from Chemical reactions | 8 9 10 11 | Crater Wear Plastic Deformation Thermal Crack Built-up Edge | Swaft chips removing tool material as it flow over the top face at high temperatures. Cutting edge is depressed due to softening at high temperatures. Fatigue from rapid, repeated heating and cooling cycles during machining. Work material is pressure welded on the top face of the cutting edge. |
Flank wear Crater wear Bad chip control Cutting edge fracture Burrs occur Creater wear KT Initial wear
Poor surface finish Side flank wear Sudden
VN increase 1 in wear Face flank wear Steady wear VN
2 Flank wear VB Cutting Time T (min) Cutting Time T (min) Edge wear VC Higher cutting force Wear is rapid initially, then it proceeds Poor machining accuracy more gradually in proportion with Crater wear is more progressive with
Burrs occur cutting time until a certain limit, beyond no sudden breakdown pattern.
which it increases rapidly again.
Measure the relative tool lives of the specified wear, over a range of cutting speeds, then plot the tool life along the X-axis and the cutting speed along the Y-axis on a double logarithm graph. Flank wear Crater wear
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Tool life (min) Tool life (min)