Cutting force in the machining process of SiCp/Al particle reinforced metal matrix composite is affected by several factors. Obtaining an effective mathematical model for the cutting force is challenging. In that respect, the second-order model of cutting force has been established by response surface methodology (RSM) in this study, with different cutting parameters, such as cutting speed, feed rate, and depth of cut. The optimized mathematical model has been developed to analyze the effect of actual processing conditions on the generation of cutting force for the turning process of SiCp/Al composite. The results show that the predicted parameters by the RSM are in close agreement with experimental results with minimal error percentage. Quantitative evaluation by using analysis of variance (ANOVA), main effects plot, interactive effect, residual analysis, and optimization of cutting forces using the desirability function was performed. It has been found that the higher depth of cut, followed by feed rate, increases the cutting force. Higher cutting speed shows a positive response by reducing the cutting force. The predicted and experimental results for the model of SiCp/Al components have been compared to the cutting force of SiCp/Al 45 wt%—the error has been found low showing a good agreement.

In this paper, a two-dimensional orthogonal cutting simulation model of SiCp/Al composite was established. The geometry and material constitutive model of the particle, the matrix, and the interface layer have been modeled respectively. In view of the distribution of the particles in the matrix, this paper proposed respectively a two-dimensional particle random distribution to simulate particles randomly distributed in the matrix. Then, the cutting state of SiC reinforced particles was analyzed, the novel approach was adopted the geometric shapes of SiC particles in this study is taken as an oval shape. Three different locations of SiC particle relative to the cutting tool path were simulated to analyze the cutting state such as particle removal. The interface layer was introduced to the case that the particle was on the cutting path to study the influence on the stress and strain transfer. Through the post-processing of simulation results, the influence of interface property on the composite reinforcement effect was studied quantificationally. Finally, the cutting process of SiCp/Al composite material was simulated. This paper studied the influence on the machined surface morphology, chip morphology, stress distribution, and cutting force of many factors of the cutting speed and the cutting thickness. The single factor orthogonal cutting experiment was designed the influence of cutting speed and feed rate on the cutting force. The cutting force results of the experiment and the simulation were compared through the deviation analysis, which verified the simulation model.

In this study, the proposed experimental and second-order model for the cutting forces were developed through several parameters, including cutting speed, feed rate, depth of cut, and two varying content of SiCp. Cutting force model was developed and optimized through RSM and compared for two different percentages of components SiCp/Al 45% and SiCp/Al 50%. ANOVA is used for Quantitative evaluation, the main effects plot along with the evaluation using different graphs and plots including residual analysis, contour plots, and desirability functions for cutting forces optimization. It provides the finding for choosing proper parameters for the machining process. The plots show that during increment with depth of cut in proportion with feed rate are able to cause increments in cutting forces. Higher cutting speed shows a positive response in both the weight percentage of SiCp by reducing the cutting force because of higher cutting speed increases. A very fractional increasing trend of cutting force was observed with increasing SiCp weight percentages. Both of the methods such as experiment and model-predicted results of SiCp/Al MMC materials were thoroughly evaluated for analyzing cutting forces of SiCp/Al 45%, and SiCp/Al 50%, as well as calculated the error percentages also found in an acceptable range with minimal error percentages. Article Highlights: This study focuses on the effect of cutting parameters as well as different percentage of SiC particles on the cutting forces, while comparing the results of both SiC particles such as SiCp/Al 45%, and SiCp/Al 50% the result shows that there isn’t fractional amount of impact on the cutting force with nominal increasing percentages of SiC particles. Cutting speed in machining process of SiCp/Al shows positive response in reducing the cutting forces, however, increasing amount of depth of cut followed by increasing feed rate creates fluctuations in cutting force and thus increases the cutting force in the cutting process. The developed RSM mathematical model which is based on the box Behnken design show excellent competence for predicting and suggesting the machining parameters for both SiCp/Al 45%, and SiCp/Al 50% and the RSM mathematical model is feasible for optimization of the machining process with good agreement to experimental values.