// Overview
Bulk Metallic Glass (BMG) offers exceptional mechanical properties but is challenging to machine — its behaviour under cutting can accelerate tool wear and limit surface quality. Cryogenic assistance, where the cutting zone is cooled to very low temperatures, is a promising route to mitigate this.
Over a focused 10-week study I investigated how cryogenic assistance influences tool wear during BMG machining, comparing cooled and conventional conditions and characterizing the resulting wear behaviour.
// What I did