ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We are extremely grateful to our guide Miss. [Link] Assistant Professor in
Mechanical Engineering Department of Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences,
Rajampet, for her valuable support and guidance throughout this project and we are very
thankful for her association with us and for her constant encouragement, accessibility and
valuable suggestions. we would also like to thank Mr. [Link] Assistant Professor in
mechanical engineering department for helping in conducting the experiments in CNC milling
machine.
We express our in deep sense of gratitude to our Head of the Department, Prof.
[Link] REDDY, for the support extended to us during this project work.
We take
immense
pleasure
in
thanking
Dr. [Link],Principal,
Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Rajampet, for providing necessary
facilities to carry our project.
We wish to express our sincere gratitude to [Link] RAO, Director,
Annamacharya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Rajampet, for providing necessary
facilities to carry our project.
Finally we would like to express our sincere thanks to faculty members of mechanical
engineering department, lab technicians, one and all who has helped us to complete the project
work successfully.
ABSTRACT
Milling is the machining process of using rotary cutters to remove material from a work
piece advancing (or feeding) in a direction at an angle with the axis of the tool. It covers a wide
variety of different operations and machines, on scales from small individual parts to large,
heavy-duty gang milling operations. It is one of the most commonly used processes in industry
and machine shops today for machining parts to precise sizes and shapes.
A metal matrix composite (MMC) is composite material with at least two
constituent parts, one being a metal necessarily, the other material may be a different metal or
another material, such as a ceramic or organic compound when at least three materials are
present, it is called a hybrid composite. in our project the matrix material is aluminium and
reinforcements are magnesium and zinc.
The project is divided into three phases. First the experimental data is collected by
conducting the experiments. In the first phase artificial neural network (ANN) has been
developed to predict the responses. The developed model was trained and tested with
experimental data. The predicted results were compared with experimental results.
In second phase the ANN predicted results were analyzed by performing taguchi S/N
ratio analysis. In the third phase analysis of variance (ANOVA) is employed to analyze the
effects of process parameters and output responses. This work is useful in predicting the
responses while milling the aluminium metal matrix composites.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
TITLE
Page No.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ABSTRACT
LIST OF TABLES
(i)
LIST OF FIGURES
(ii)
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
(iii)
INTRODUCTION
1-19
1.0
composite material
1.1
matrix selection
1.2
aluminum alloy matrix
1.3
machining of metals
11
1.4
aspects of machining
12
1.
stir casting process
13
16
composite material preparation
15
1.7
heat treatment
17
1.8
cutting parameters
17
1.9
response parameters
18
1.10
CNC milling
19
1.11
overview of CNC milling
19
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0
Introduction
21
2.1
literature review
21
2.2
objective of present work
25
2.3
scheme of investigation
21-25
METHODOLOGY
26-38
3.0
Introduction
26
3.1
neural network
26
3.2
design of experiments
34
3.3
orthogonal array
35
3.4
signal to noise ratio
37
3.5
analysis of variance
38
EXPERIMENTAL WORK
4.0
Introduction
40
4.1
experimental setup
40
4.2
specification of CNC milling machine
41
4.3
work material preparation
42
4.4
surface finish measurement
44
4.5
experimental procedure
44
4.6
orthogonal array table creation
45
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
5.0
results from ANN
48
5.1
results from taguchi
50
5.2
results from ANOVA
51
40-45
48-51
CONCLUSION
52-53
6.0
conclusion
52
6.1
future scope
52
REFERENCES
53