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International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology, Volume 7, Issue 9, September-2018 26 ISSN 2278-7763
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Optimize Machining Parameters in Turning Operation Using Genetic Algorithm and Network Fitting Tool Modeling
By
1Adnan Jameel Abbas
2Mohamad Bin Minhat
1Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Iraq 2Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
ABSTRACT
Turning process is one of complicated operations to control its cutting parameters because it depends upon several conflicting cutting parameters that must be adjusted at the same time accurately. In this research, minimization of cutting temperature, work piece surface roughness and cutting time are achieved. A mild steel material type JIS S45C and a tungsten carbide insert type SPG-422 Grade E30 are used as workpiece and cutting tool materials. The temperature of primary plastic deformation zone which called shearing zone, and secondary deformation zone which called chip slides on the rake face zone are measured. This paper adopts the utilization Genetic Algorithm (GA) to achieve the minimization operation. Three objective functions are used as input to GA for minimization purpose, one objective function for temperature minimization and one for surface roughness minimization and one for cutting time minimization. The outputs of huerestics algorithms are; minimum temperature, minimum surface finish, minimum cutting time. The simulation results showed that the GA algorithm gives the best temperature value (30. 306 оC) and surface roughness (0.26 µm) and cutting time (3.33 min). The artificial neural network type Network Fitting Tool (NFTOOL) is used as a modeling technique for manipulating the ideal algorithm parameters. The results of NFTOOL indicates that (9-6-3) network is the ideal type because it gives lower testing mean square error (MSE) equal to (3.97214 *10-12). Keywords: Turning process; temperature; surface roughness; cutting time; Genetic Algorithm; Network Fitting
Tool.
1 INTRODUCTION Minimization of undesired parameters in production operations is very necessary to increase the productivity and reduce the costs. The determination of the ideal parameters and performance are among the most crucial and complex factors in the process planning and economics of metal cutting operations. The lower costs, higher productivity and shorter machining time represent the primary objectives of recent industrial revival [1] , [2] The best combination of performance parameters, such as minimum cutting force, good surface integrity, lowest cutting temperature and minimum power consumption indicate that an operation has relatively good machinability. However, obtaining better performance involves many difficult aspects, including machining, mathematical knowledge, highly experienced requirement, as well as specifying the most
suitable machine operation [3]. Turning process is a complicated operation where the performance depends upon many cutting conditions, mainly because there are many parameters and conflicting objectives that are adjusted simultaneously to minimize the cost and product quality improvement [4], [5], [6] and [7]. Parameters improvement in the turning process is highly constrained and nonlinear, and thus, the cutting parameters such as feed rate, cutting speed and depth of cut must be carefully selected to obtain the economics of machining operations by increasing productivity and decreasing total costs [8]. The temperature in machining plays a key role in tool wear, cutting forces, work piece surface quality and machining precision [9]. It can also result in changing the properties of the work piece and tool materials as well as reducing the tool life. In addition, in
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metal cutting operations, the spending energy is converted into heat, which translates to the work piece and cutting tool materials.The shear zone temperature affects the work piece-chip material’s mechanical properties, while the tool-chip and tool-work piece temperatures influence the cutting tool wear [10]. Three main heating zones can be recognized in turning using a single point cutting tool. These zones are: the primary plastic deformation zone (shearing plane zone); secondary deformation zone (chip slides on the rake face zone); and tertiary deformation zone (tool relief face slides zone). The tertiary deformation zone is not considered in most cases because it is small, especially when using sharp cutting edges[11]. [12], [13], [14] and [15] Surface finish is one of the major quality attributes of a turning process, since it plays a significant role in the production cost and the indication of the manufacturing processes, as it directly affects the performance of the mechanical parts, as well as the consumer satisfaction.There are many machining variables that influence the surface integrity, such as cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut and tool geometry. The geometric factors that directly affect the surface finish are the cutting tool nose radius, rake angle, cutting edge angle, work piece, tool material. In this paper a mild steel material type JIS S45C work piece with tungsten carbide insert cutting tool type SPG-422 Grade E30 on CNC turning machines are adopted via dry machining. Cutting time is one of the most important parameters that a company considers in order to deliver the product to customers in the minimum amount of time, and in turn enhance their satisfaction. Cutting parameters such as depth of cut, cutting speed and feed rate have a great impact on time and cost, mainly because they affect the production quality. There has been increasing interest in using smart and heuristic algorithms for a production improvement process in order to achieve higher accuracy. Intelligent algorithms are procedures that aim to compare previous solutions until the ideal solution is reached by selecting the best cutting parameters. Using the cutting parameters from machining databases or specialized handbooks are not associated with better results because they represent starting values. The selection of the ideal conditions of machining parameters has greatly contributed in increasing the productivity and reducing costs. Choosing the machining parameters to achieve good quality properties is a crucial process to obtain high quality and productivity requirements, especially in a turning operation. Heuristics intelligent algorithm called a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to help in solving these problems. This algorithm is more reliable, and has effective
methodology for finding better solutions of real problems when compared with conventional methods. Genetic Algorithm is a computation search and minimization method owing its power to the mechanics of natural selection and genetics, such as survival of the fittest (competition) and recombination, which make enable it to find the global solution for a given problem. A GA is good at taking large and potentially huge search spaces, and translating them, in search for best combinations of things and solutions. The Artificial Neural Network type Network Fitting Tool (NFTOOL) is a computational model that uses real values, and is used to estimate or approximate functions that depend on a large number of inputs. The NFTOOL is generally presented as several systems of interconnected "neurons" that can compute values from inputs, and are capable of machine learning and pattern recognition, mainly because of their inherent adaptive nature. It is a numerical and complicate physics based modeling technique used for modeling and developing the performance of the manufacturing technologies. This research adopts the utilization of GA and NFTOOL to find the best cutting parameters that help in finding the ideal cutting temperature, work piece surface roughness and cutting time and then selecting the ideal parameters group which achieves equilibrium among performance parameters in CNC turning operation. A GA is another method to get hold of best possible machine tool’s values (Yusup et al., 2012). It consist of; reproduction, crossover and mutation which are the main competencies of GA. The binary symbols used to encode the parameters and the process is defined in detail in the following sections:- Sahoo [16] work theme was concerning the high carbon steel type (carbon steel has high carbon content carbon steel has high carbon content AISI 1040) mild steel which had chemical vapor deposition diamond carbide coating cutting tool in CNC turning operation environment where random procedures were input to the GA algorithm adequate to find the best values (depth of cut, spindle speed, feed rate) of the cutting procedure. Root mean square, center line and average roughness and line peak spacing were calculated to find the quantitative data of how much the surface smoothness has been affected. The analyses disclosed that feed rate, speed and depth of cut should be controlled and have minor authority if one wants an even coarse. Ahmad and Anwarul [17] contemplated on the methodology arranging parameters streamlining of rotational segment utilizing a GA matlab l toolbox. Minimizing the working time Tm was the fundamental purpose of this function. It was
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to minimize the working time Tm as shown in Equation below:- Tm = Lf * npass / f * Nw Where Tm represents the calculated machining time, Lf represents the measured length of surface of the cutting tool, npass represents the number of passes recorded in the experiment, f represents the value of feed rate and Nw represents the measured rotational speed of work piece the cutting tool conducts. Selecting the ideal cutting parameters for every operating process is among the modern technological challenges in enhancing machining product quality, reducing operation costs, and increasing the effectiveness and productivity of cutting operations.
2 SIMULATION OPERATION USING GA
HEURISTIC ALGORITHM
In order to minimize the present problem using GA, the following parameters have been selected to obtain ideal solutions with the least possible computational effort:- Population size = 30 Maximum number of generations = 450 Crossover probability (Pc) = 0.9 Mutation probability (Pm) = 0.05. To select two strings of population for either mutation or crossover, the roulette wheel technique is used. The technique specified that, for selection, a random number between 0 and 1 is multiplied with the sum of fitness of all the old population strings. When this value is less than or equal to the cumulative fitness of the string, this string is selected from the old population. In this manner, two strings (mate-1 and mate-2) are selected to the mating pool. Using the GA operators, two new strings (child-1 and child-2) are created out of these mates. This process is continued until 30 new strings of population are generated. These strings are replaced into the old population to represent the second generation of the old population. In this manner, 450 generations are continued before the algorithm converges into the fit unique solution. 2.1 GA Minimization by Temperature, Surface Roughness and Cutting Time Objective Functions 2.1.1 GA Minimization by the Temperature Objective Function
The main temperature objective fuction (Tmain) is used as input for the GA, which calculates the ideal parameters that lead to minimize the cutting temperature. The temperature is calculated using the following equation:- T= [B *C *Vc*( Fz * a2 – F * f * sin (ф) / a2 / J *θ *Vc * a *f + Ta] + [C1*( Fz / f *a) * �(Vc ∗ f ∗ sin (ф) / (θ ∗ λ)) 2 ] Where B is the shear energy that is converted into heat = (0.95 ~ 1) in the turning operation (Chattopadhyay, 2009), C is the heat that goes to the chip from the shear zone = (0.7 ~ 0.9) in the turning operation (Chattopadhyay, 2009), Vc is the main cutting velocity (m/min), Fz is the main cutting force (N), a2 is the chip thickness (mm), F is the friction force at the rake surface (N), f is the feed rate (mm/rev), ф is the cutting tool edge angle (in degrees), J is the mechanical equivalent of heat of the chip / work piece material (J/Cal), θ is the volume specific heat (Cal/mm3/оC) of work piece, a is the depth of cut (mm), and Ta is the ambient temperature and equal to 25о, C1 is a constant equal to 121 in the turning operation (Chattopadhyay, 2009), and λ is the thermal conductivity (W/m. оC). 2.1. GA Minimization by Surface Roughness
Objective Function The ideal transverse roughness (Rmax) in the turning operation can be calculated using the Equation below. Ra = 0.032 * f 2 / r Where Ra is the transverse roughness (µm), f is the feed between successive cuts (mm), and r is the radius of the cutting tool (mm). 2.1.3 GA Minimization by Cutting Time Objective Function The cutting time can be calculated using Equations below. t = Lf / f * Nw Nw = 1000 * Vc / π * D Where t is the machining cutting time (min), Lf is the length of the cutting surface (mm), f is the feed rate (mm/rev), Nw is the
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rotational speed of the work piece (rev/min), and D is the work piece diameter (mm). 2.1.4 GA Variable Boundaries The variable parameters are subject to boundaries and constraints that specifiy the upper and lower limitation values according to standard tables. The simulation results can be collected from the GA using one trail iteration (450 iterations) of this algorithm. The best epoch from each iteration which gives the optimum results is selected as the ideal criteria. Cutting Parameters Standard Recommendations of JIS S45C Mild Steel and SPG-422 E30 Tungsten Carbide Tool is used for selecting the boundary of cutting speed, feed rate and depth of cut as shown in Table 1 below:- Table 1: Cutting Parameters Standard Recommendations of JIS S45C Mild Steel and SPG-422 E30 Tungsten Carbide Tool (Fox Valley Technical College, 2000)
and (Christover et al., 2004).
3 Results The ideal epochs selection operations by GA1 are shown in Appendix G and, and in Table 2.
Table 2: The Ideal Epoch’s Selection by GA
Temperature Objective Function
In Table 2, the minimum cutting temperature and surface roughness can be obtained at epochs [42-450], and are equal to 30.3 0C and 0.26 µm, respectively, as shown in Figure 1and Figure 2.
Fig 1: Minimum Cutting Temperature of
GA
Cutting Speed m/min
Feed rate mm/rev
Depth of cut mm
40-140 0.05-0.3 0.3-1
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Fig 2: Minimum Surface Roughness of
GA
The minimum cutting time can be
obtained at epochs [4-12], and is equal
to 3.33 min. Figure 3 represents the
relationship between cutting time and
epochs using GA
Fig 3: Minimum Cutting Time of
GA
Epochs [13-21] in Table 2 consist of the
ideal parameters that give equilibrium
between temperature, surface roughness
and cutting time, as shown in Figure 4
Fig 4 Ideal Parameters of
Temperature, Surface Roughness and
Cutting Time of GA
4. NFTOOL Modeling Manipulation
After trying many types of hidden layers it is found that the network (9-6-3) which means nine input nodes, 6 hidden nodes and 3 output nodes represents the ideal network because it gives lower testing (MSE) equal to (5.70113 e-12) which
occures at epochs 535, and better
regression model which equal to (R = 1)
as shown in test number 5 in Table 3.
Table 3: Results of NFTOOL Network
The best performance (lower mean
square error value 5.70113e-12) and
(ideal regression model value 1, 1, 1 for
training, testing and validation data
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respectively) can be shown in Figures 5
and 6 respectively:-
Fig 5: Best Mean Square Error Value
Fig 6: Ideal Regression Model Value
The best validation performance of
8.2253 e-12 is obtained after 535
iterations as shown in Figure 7.
:-
Fig 7: The best Validation Performance
The ideal NFTOOL network architecture
can be represented as shown in Figure
8.
:-
Figure 5.27: The Ideal NFTOOL Network
Architecture
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Finally, the ideal NFTOOL which used
the first main GA1 objective function
parameters can be used for future work
for cutting parameters prediction and
shown as in Figure 9.
Fig 9 NFTOO Method
Fig 8 NFTOOL network
Conclusions 4
The main issue that the production
operations face is getting the best
parameters that helping in reducing the
costs and increasing the productivity. In
addition, in minimization operations, the
minimum values of output parameters are
the main request for reducing the loss
and getting high profits.
This research calculates the
cutting parameters that lead to minimize
the cutting temperature, work piece
surface roughness and cutting time
output performance parameters to the
lowest values.The heuristics algorithm
and NFTOOL are adopted to execute the
minimization and modelling in turning
operation respectively. A medium
strength mild steel type JIS S45C with a
tungsten carbide cutting tool type SPG
422 Grade E30 are used as a work
piece and cutting tool materials
respectively. The simulation operations
are executed by GA so as to find the
ideal values of cutting parameters
(speed, feed rate and depth of cut) and
minimize the output performance
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parameters instead of based on
databases or handbooks
recommendations data. From GA
simulation results, it is noted that the
cutting temperature and thermal
conductivity increase with speed, fade
rate, depth of cut. On the other hand, the
main cutting force and feed force
decrease when the cutting speed rises,
while friction force no more affect and still
constant approximately. In addition, the
cutting time decreases with the feed rate
and speed increasing, while not more
affect with the depth of cut changing. As
well as, the surface roughness decrease
with the cutting speeds increases, while
increase with the feed rate and depth of
cut increasing. The inputs parameters
are; cutting velocity (Vc), feed rate (f),
depth of cut (a), main cutting force (Fz),
friction cutting force (F), chip thickness
(a2), thermal conductivity (ƛ ), chip heat
(C) and shear energy heat (B). The
network output is cutting temperature (T),
work piece surface roughness (Ra) and
cutting time (t). The results of NFTOOL
network indicates that (9-6-3) network
which means nine input nodes, six
hidden nodes and three output nodes is
the ideal network because it gives lower
testing (MSE) equal to (3.97214 e -12)
at epochs 535, and better regression
model equal to (R = 1)
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