본 연구에서는 볼 엔드 밀 절삭실험을 통하지 않고 일반적인 선삭가공 등에서 쉽게 구할 수 있는 2차원 절삭 데이터를 이용하여 볼 엔드 밀의 기하학적 형상 및 절삭조건이 주어졌을 때 모든 볼 엔드 밀 가공에서의 절삭기구를 해석하고 절삭력 모델을 구하고자 한다. 이를 위하여 볼 엔드 밀의 기하학적 특성 및 절삭 조건 등을 분석하고, 미소절삭날터를 이용한 3차원 절삭해석방법을 적용하여 미소 절삭력을 구하고 이들의 합력으로서 절삭력을 계산한다.
Owing to the development of CNC machine tools and automatic programing software, the milling process with ball-end mill has become the most widely used process where three-dimensional precision machining is important. In this study, the ball-end milling process has been analyzed and a cutting force model has been developed to predict the cutting force acting on the ball-end mill on given machining conditions. The development of the model is based on the analysis of geometry of a ball-end mill an the oblique cutting process. The cutting edges of ball-end mills are considered as a series of infinitesimal elements and the geometry of the cutting edge element each cutting edge element is straight. The oblique cutting process in the small cutting edge element has been analyzed as orthogonal cutting process in the plane containing the cutting velocity vector and chip-flow vector. Hence, with the orthogonal cutting data obtained from orthogonal turning test, the cutting forces can be predicted through the model. The predicted cutting forces has shown a fairly good agreement with the test results in various plane cutting conditions.
