Analysis of the inverse identification of constitutive equations applied in orthogonal cutting process

Abstract: Flow stress identification of work-piece materials for its use in machining operation simulation models has been long treated. The interest in defining the flow stress in an easy and fast way without using complicated dynamic characterization tests leads to analyse the inverse identification of flow stress employing cutting operations. This paper presents a revision of different aspects concerning the inverse algorithms applied to the primary shear zone (PSZ). It also presents a new approach for studying material''s behaviour on the secondary shear zone (SSZ) where experimentally measured temperatures have been included in the inverse algorithm. Two steels, 42CrMo4 and 20NiCrMo5 are employed and finite element method (FEM) simulations are carried out in order to evaluate the usefulness of the calculated flow stress laws and proposed algorithm. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]