Designing, manufacturing and performance analysis of model block cutting machine with diamond blade for natural stones

The gangsaw machines are used for cutting of natural stones in the form of slabs. It reguires to know wear, energy consumption and cutting forces cutting in order to determine the performance of diamond segments. The industrial gangsaw machines are so big that it is difficult to indicate the cutting performance of these machines sensitively. In this thesis; a prototype monolama machine with diamond segmented was designed and manufactured for cutting of small size natural stone blocks. Then, cutting experiments were realized under different cutting conditions for the determination of cutting performance of this machine. In these experiments, power consumption, cutting forces, specific energy, cutting temperature and specific wear were investigated using single type diamond segments and three different type natural stone. In condusion, the cutting performance experiments were realized in a cheaper and more sensitive way with prototype machine which is laboratory scale in stead of determination test to cutting conditions and selection of segments of industrial gangsaw machines.