
| ■ Application area | Necessity of PCBN grades | Features of CBN grades for | ||
| The condition | M | machining hardened steel and | ||
| necessary to cut | aterial is: | other hard materials | ||
| the work | Hardness of tool * Hardness of tool X 3 | C |
65 Fracture Hardened steel (60HRC) → 700 Hv Cemented carbide → 1600 Hv PCBN (BX360) → 3300 Hv resistance
60 Relation of CBN grain size, surface roughness, and cutting speed
| 55 | Ceramic | [Fine-grained CBN] | [Rough-grained CBN] | |
| Wear |
| 50 | resistance | D | ||
| 45 | Coated / Cermet | |||
| 100 |
1-2μm 4-8μm CBN content
| Continuous | Light | Heavy | e | |||
| interrupted | Fine grained PCBN provided with | Rough grained PCBN. CBN particles | Fewer CBN content | Increasing wear resistance | ||
| interrupted | sharp cutting edge. | are hold fi rmly. | ||||
| Cutting mode | Good surface roughness | Allows high speed machining | Much CBN content e Increasing impact resistance E | |||
| Basic selection of T-CBN grades in machining of hardened steel and hard material | ||||||
| Coated T-CBN grades | Uncoated T-CBN grades |
| BXM10 | For high speeds cutting | BX310 For high speeds / Priority on wear resistance in continuous cutting | |
| BXM20 | For general purpose, | BX330 For medium speeds / Priority on surface quality | F |
more than Vc = 180 m/min For general purpose, BX360 For low to medium speeds / General purpose grade with BXA20 excellent fracture resistance less than Vc = 180 m/min
in heavy interrupted cutting
300 300
Continuous Lightly
200 BXM20 cutting 200 BXM20 interrupted H
BXA20 BXA20 100 100 Interrupted I
0 0
0 0.15 0.3 Light Interrupted Heavy
Feed (mm/vev) Effects of Coated T-CBN grades J Protect CBN from oxidation wear Since the coating layer intercepts air, oxidation wear of Improved resistance
Coated on hard CBN CBN can be prevented. to fl ank wear
Hardness: Peeling of coating layer can be prevented CBN > Coating layer Hard and deformation resistant CBN is excellent substrate material. K
Continuous cutting Interrupted cutting 19 In continuous cutting, wet Cutting conditions cutting is superior to dry 0.10
Dry Workpiece material: Chromium L
Wet 15 molybdenum steel cutting in tool life for wear.
| Continuous | 14 | Heavy | ||
| 0.08 | cutting | (JIS SCM415), 60 HRC | interrupted | |
| Cutting speed: Vc = 100 m/min | ||||
| Depth of cut: ap = 0.25 mm | In interrupted cutting, dry | |||
| Cutting conditions | 10 | |||
| 0.06 | f | |||
| Workpiece material: Chromium | 10 Feed: = 0.15 mm/rev | cutting is superior to wet | ||
| molybdenum steel | ||||
| 0.04 | (JIS SCM415), 60 HRC | cutting in tool life for | ||
| 5.5 | ||||
| Cutting speed: Vc = 150 m/min | 5 | |||
| a | 4 fracture. | |||
| 0.02 | BX330 Depth of cut: p = 0.25 mm | BX360 |
| f | 2.5 | M | |||
| Feed: = 0.1 mm/rev | |||||
| 0 | 0 |
10 20 30 Dry Wet
Cutting time (min)