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    Analysis of rock cutting process with a blunt PDC cutter under different wear flat inclination angles

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    Authors
    Rostamsowlat, I.
    Akbari, B.
    Evans, Brian
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Rostamsowlat, I. and Akbari, B. and Evans, B. 2018. Analysis of rock cutting process with a blunt PDC cutter under different wear flat inclination angles. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 171: pp. 771-783.
    Source Title
    Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
    DOI
    10.1016/j.petrol.2018.06.003
    ISSN
    0920-4105
    School
    WASM: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering (WASM-MECE)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/73003
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    It is generally accepted that drilling with drag bits (Polycrystalline Diamond Compact bits) simultaneously consists of “pure cutting” and “frictional contact” processes. To date, the mechanics of rock cutting have been mostly based on the assumption that these two processes are fully independent as the influence of wear flat inclination angle (ß) with respect to the cutter velocity vector (v) on the frictional contact force is often not accounted for. The specific aim of this study is to determine the effect of wear flat inclination angle on the frictional force acting on the wear flat surface of a single blunt cutter over a wide range of depths of cut (d). For this purpose, an extensive and comprehensive set of cutting experiments was performed on two sedimentary rock samples (a limestone and a sandstone) using a state-of-the-art rock cutting equipment and a unique cutter holder. The results show that the normal contact stress (s) at the wear flat-rock interface (and therefore the normal frictional force acting on the wear flat) is dependent on the depth of cut within the elastoplastic and particularly plastic regimes of frictional contact; however, the contact stress is invariant with depth of cut within the elastic regime. Further investigations indicate that the assumption that the force acting on the wear flat surface of a blunt cutter is independent of the cutting process taking place ahead of the cutter is not valid in particular, for the large values of inclination angles.

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