PARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION ON TURNING AISI 303 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL USING GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

Austenitic stainless steels are extensively used in numerous industries. Voluminous complications are testified during the machining of these steels. To remove these complications, optimization approaches plays a vibrant role for upgrading the eminence in product and for finding best cutting conditions. Moreover, awareness in enactment of coolant in machining is of acutesignificance to progress the efficiency of themachining. This effort boons an investigational study to afford least surface roughness with maximum metal removal rate by the Taguchi basedgrey relational technique. A PV7020 (TiAlN + TiN) coated cermet tool is used to machine AISI 303 stainless steel with ECO COOL 3015 as a standard coolant.