Determination of Cutting Disc Deformation Using Axial Forces Produced during the Cutting Process

The reliability of the cutting disc in a sawing process is of vital importance in industry. There exist a lot of reported accidents due to damaged disc usage. In most cases the damage on the disc is not visible. Therefore innovative techniques are required to determine the damages. For this aim an experimental setup is built in Afyon Kocatepe University. Different experiments are performed. While experiments different parameters are measured and calculated. In this paper axial forces produced while the cutting processes are studied. Each experiment is represented by a vector of three dimensional axial forces (Fx, Fy, Fz). Experiments are repeated using four different class of cutting disc (solid, less damaged, much damaged and broken). An Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) structure is proposed to classify the deformations that occur on a cutting disc in sawing processes. The results indicate that proposed ANFIS structure is very effective on classification.