Development of a Cutting Force Prediction Model for Silica/Phenolic Composite in Mill-grinding

A cutting force model was developed from silica/phenolic composites for mill-grinding process. The experimental was carried out on silica/phenolic material and found that the cutting force decreased significantly with the increase of cutting speed, whereas the same was found increased with the increase of feed rate and cutting depth. By comparison of the experimental and simulation data of the cutting force, it was found that the errors are below than 30 % in most of the sets of parameters. The variation found is due to the heterogeneity and other complex properties of silica/phenolic composites. The results were almost the same as previous experiments. So, the cutting force model developed in this paper is robust and it can be applied to predict the cutting force and optimization of the process.