Abstract
In the traditional micromilling(TMM) of Inconel718 alloy, due to the influence of material plasticity and size effect, relatively large burr will be produced. In order to solve the burr problem in micromilling, ultrasonic vibration in feed direction is applied to the workpiece to complete vibration cutting. Combined with trajectory simulation and cutting experiment, the burr formation mechanism of TMM and ultrasonic vibration assisted micromilling(UVAMM) was studied. The results show that when the ratio of amplitude(A) to feed per tooth(ƒz) is greater than 0.5, continuous cutting changes to intermittent cutting. Compared with TMM, UVAMM improves chip breaking ability, facilitates the propagation of burr crack and effectively inhibits the formation of burr. However, due to the influence of cutting edge radius, A/ƒz should be set larger. When the chip breaking condition is reached, the burr shape is usually tearing or flocculent. Under the conditions of low speed(n), large ƒz and large A, the burr suppression is more obvious.