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    Development of a surface roughness prediction system for machining of hot chromium steel (AISI H11) based on artificial neural network
    (Medwell Journals medwellonline@gmail.com, 2010) Rai, R.; Shettigar, A.; Rao, S.S.; Shriram
    An attempt have been made to apply the principles of artificial neural networks (ANN) towards developing a prediction model for surface roughness during the machining of high chromium steel through face milling process. Now a days, hot chromium steel is prominently used in die and mould industry as well as in press tools, helicopter rotor blades, etc. Initially, Taguchi design of experiments was applied while conducting the experiments to reduce the time and cost of experiment. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) network using Feed Forward Error Back propagation was chosen as the neural network architecture to describe the process model. The experiments were conducted on a C.N.C milling machine using carbide cutters. Pearson correlation coefficient was also calculated to analyze the correlation between the system inputs and selected system output i.e. surface roughness. The results of ANN modeling were substantiated by testing and validation of the resulting surface roughness values and the results have been encouraging. The outputs of Pearson correlation coefficient also showed a strong correlation between the feed per tooth and surface roughness, followed by cutting speed. © 2006-2010 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).
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    Experimental analysis and optimization of plasma spray parameters on microhardness and wear loss of Mo-Ni-Cr coated super duplex stainless steel
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022) Gowdru Chandrashekarappa, M.; Pradeep, N.B.; Girisha, L.; Harsha, H.M.; Shettigar, A.
    Plasma spray coatings are one among the economic path to offer quick solutions for preventing the part (substrate) failures due to rapid wear. In the present work, Mo-Ni-Cr powder is used as a coating material on super duplex stainless steel to minimise the wear loss. The microhardness of the coating is affected by the factors (current, powder feed rate and standoff distance) of the plasma spray coating process. Taguchi method is followed for preliminary experimental plan, analysis, and to perform optimisation for maximum microhardness. The results showed that the current being the dominant effect followed by powder feed rate and standoff distance on the microhardness of coated samples. The optimised plasma spray condition resulted in the highest coating microhardness (i.e., 764.33 HV), which is 2.78 times higher than that of super duplex stainless steel (i.e., 275 HV). Taguchi experiments are conducted to know the factors (load, sliding speed and sliding distance) influence the wear loss of coated samples prepared for optimised plasma spray conditions. The applied load and sliding speed are found statistically significant, whereas the sliding distance is insignificant towards wear loss. The results of wear loss of the substrate (uncoated sample) and optimised condition of the coated sample are found equal to 18 mg, and 2.8 mg, respectively. © 2020 Engineers Australia.