Development of a New Burnishing Method Utilizing a Flank Face of a Turning Tool and its Burnishing Performance

Abstract:

As a measure to perform a burnishing process easily on an NC lathe, the authors propose a new method using a flank face positioned in a few millimeters lower part of the nose cutting edge of a tool. In the experiment, giving a fixed depth of burnishing (t=1, 2 and 4μm/pass), the carbon steel workpiece (S45C) of φ30mm which had been turned at V=200m/min and f=0.15mm/rev was burnished by predefined number of times. As a result, the surface roughness improved in nearly proportion to the total depth of burnishing and the roughness value of Rz≈10μm measured after turning could be improved to Rz≈2.5μm. Utilizing the feed control with an accuracy level of micron meters of the NC lathe, an attempt to control the dimensional accuracy of the workpiece diameter in the order of micron meters was also made. As a result, the workpiece radius came down constantly by 0.6~0.8 times in proportion to the tool depth of burnishing (t=1μm/pass), which reveals that the dimensional accuracy of the workpiece diameter could be controlled by the proposed burnishing process utilizing a fixed depth of burnishing system. Using the same burnishing process, circularity of the workpiece Δr could be improved to Δr≈2μm from Δr≈4μm measured after turning.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1136)
• Pages: 227-232
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1136.227
• Online since: January 2016
• Authors: Manabu Iwai*, Hideaki Hashimoto, Kiyoshi Suzuki
• Keywords: Burnishing, Circularity, Dimensional Accuracy, Finishing, Surface Roughness, Tool Flank, Turning

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