Hybrid cryo-nano MQL strategy for sustainable and high-performance machining of Monel 400
G Narsinga Rao, S Sivalingam, Dipak Patel, D T Arunkumar, S Lakshmi Sankar, Binayak Pattanayak, Shahbaz Juneja, Saurabh Aggarwal, Abhijit Bhowmik, Lema Abate · 2025
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Description
G Narsinga Rao and nine co-authors cool and oil a hard alloy two ways at once, and measure the gain. Their 2025 study cuts Monel 400, a nickel alloy prized in marine and chemical plants, under four regimes. The regimes are dry cutting, a fine oil mist, the mist loaded with carbon nanotubes, and the mist plus liquid nitrogen. Cutting settings were held fixed so the regimes can be compared cleanly.
The hybrid won on every measure against dry cutting: force down about a quarter, temperature down about a quarter, surface roughness down nearly half, and tool wear down over half. Microscopy showed the usual glue-and-grind wear, much reduced under the hybrid. A response-surface step then balanced the metrics at high joint desirability. The authors present the pairing as a greener, longer-lived way to cut an alloy rarely studied this way.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | G Narsinga Rao, S Sivalingam, Dipak Patel, D T Arunkumar, S Lakshmi Sankar, Binayak Pattanayak, Shahbaz Juneja, Saurabh Aggarwal, Abhijit Bhowmik, Lema Abate |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |