Papers by Keyword: Mass Finishing

Abstract: Mass finishing processes have widely industrial application, and in most conditions these processes are used with empiricism and trial and error. Based on basic concept of mass finishing, its category is presented. Main aspects of motion and force analysis, material removal model, equipment and consumables, process experiments and industrial application are induced. Finally, development trends are recommended from quantified models, process database, new mass finishing processes and surface integrity. This will provide full investigation and further development and research to improvement part surface integrity.

Abstract: This paper presents a new procedure to estimate the material removal (MR) in such conditions or operations where small amount of material or wear occur. The monitoring of material removal is essential to understand the machining mechanisms of several processes such as super finishing ones. For example the study of some mass finishing (MF) operations, i. e. the barrel finishing (BF) and the spindle finishing (SF), have been always limited by the difficulty to measure the local surface modification. Thus there is no knowledge about the relationship between process parameters and obtainable surface quality. The procedure is based on profilometer measurements typically used to characterized local surface morphology. An algorithm automatically finds the most representative peak of the profile. The comparison between the Abbot-Firestone curves, related to peaks achieved in different condition, permits to measure the volume of material removed by the operation. This method overcomes the well-known problem to repositioning the instrument in the same place when the part is moved from machining process to measurement one. In the case of BF, experimental demonstrated the reliability of this methodology to provide the evolution of material removed as a function of working time. Moreover the graphical plot of the representative peak at different times gave important information about machining mechanism. In particular it allowed to verify assumptions regarding the plastic deformation and the peak cutting which takes place.

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to introduce, in broad strokes, a framework – constructed from a fusion of granular flow (GFD) dynamics, tribology and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) techniques – for the practical analysis of mass finishing processes. The presentation opens with a short introduction to typical mass finishing processes, followed by a brief discussion on their respective correspondences to GFD regimes, and ends which some illustrative results arising from the application of this framework to vibratory finishing, which is perhaps the most industrially pervasive mass finishing process.

Abstract: This paper reports on the results of an experimental study in vibratory mass finishing. The machining performance of abrasive media produced entirely from recycled thermally treated glass is compared with that of conventional ceramic and polyester based media. Tests were completed in a vibratory trough machine over a range of work materials. It has been demonstrated that the recycled glass media can match the performance of conventional media in respect of surface finish (Ra), burr removal and ‘brightness’. The wear rate and self-attrition rate were also found to compare favourably with that of conventional media. The results of this study show considerable promise for the wider use of this highly innovative media.

Abstract: For the improvement of the performance in centrifugal disc finishing, the flow-through system for supplying the compound solution is tried and its influences on finishing characteristics are experimentally investigated. Workpieces (22 mm in diameter and 15 mm in thickness) of plain carbon steel (S45C in JIS), aluminum alloy (A2017) and copper alloy (C3604) are finished with ceramic media (Equilateral triangular prism 6 mm in side and 5 mm in thickness). The conclusions are summarized as follows; The compound solution has more influences on finishing characteristics than plain water. It makes the relative stock removal larger and the surface roughness smaller than the water. The relative stock removal and the media weight loss on the flow-through system are larger than those on the batch system.