Abstract
Although engineering plastics that are light-weight and have excellent mechanical performance have been widely applied in various industries in place of steel structures to reduce the burden of cost and time, there have been few studies related to their surface roughness. This study aims to evaluate the optimal effects of feed rate, cutting speed, and depth of cut as cutting parameters as well as nose angle on the surface characteristics of MC nylon in CNC lathe machining. To determine the best conditions under different nose radii, the experiments were performed based on the Taguchi L9(34) orthogonal array method, in which the resulting data was analyzed using the S/N ratio and ANOVA. Results indicate that the most significant contribution was feed rate followed by nose angle and cutting speed, whereas the depth of cut did not influence the performance. This study demonstrates that the suggested method for improving the surface finishing of MC nylon is efficient compared with results obtained from experimentation and prediction.