Anode Milling Tool Wear Analysis And Determination Of Tool Life

With the growing demand for copper, copper production has increased year after year, It is failed to meet the needs of production by using manual shaping approaches on the copper anode plate in the past. So many companies in China have introduced a large number of copper anode plate shaping unit, the copper anode plate lug milling is an important aspect in the plastic unit, but now it is less about the form of milling tool wear,the study of wear mechanisms and tool life in practice, therefore, it is necessary to research in order to provide some reference of reduce tool wear and improve tool life.In this paper, aiming at the characteristics of high-speed milling process, basing on high-speed machining mechanism and the wear characteristics of high-speed cutting tools,combining the characteristics of milling of copper anode plates, according to the basic theory of rigid plastic and thermal coupled finite element simulation, the author establish the three-dimensional geometric model of workpiece and tool and import it into DEFORM-3D software,then start simulation and obtain the relationship among of rutting force,cutting temperature,tool stresses,and tool wear,and predict the tool wear process.As some factors can not be realized in software in the actual production, so in order to further determine the form of tool wear and wear mechanism,verify the accuracy of the simulation results, this paper has progressed the experiment of anode copper lug milling tool wear. The experiment result show that it has different characteristics in wear shape and wear mechanism of milling tool when we adopt the different milling mode, the simulation results of the analysis of tool wear have a high reliability, and experiments also identified a blunt tool standards and tool life, provide some reference for the time of changing tool in actual production when the milling tool has been invalidation.