For some applications, especially where extremely high-speed cutting is important, other tool materials such as sintered carbide products are a more economical alternative to tool steel.
In many cases of stainless steelcutting operations with carbide tools, a tool life strongly depends on flank notch wear of depth of cut rather than average flank wear of main cutting edge.
The mechanism of cutting force, cutting temperature and tool wear in the machining of quenched steel and nickel based high temperature alloy with ceramic tools are analyzed in the paper.