Experimental considerations for steady state edge excavation under a constant cutting depth for a mortar specimen using a disk cutter bit

This paper aims to investigate experimentally steady state excavation performance under a constant cutting depth, especially the specific cutting energy of a disk cutter bit in the free edge part of a mortar specimen. Here, the tangential, lateral and normal forces acting on a disk cutter bit having three tip angles and the amount of debris were measured for several cutting spaces and cutting depths. As a result, it was observed that the specific cutting energy, i.e. the ratio of the excavation power of the disk cutter bit to the amount of debris, showed a minimum value of the ratio of cutting space to cutting depth of five, at which ratio the most efficient excavation could be attained.