In this research, an experimental study was undertaken on
aluminium using a purpose designed and manufactured
burnishing tool. The experiments was designed to find the effects
of burnishing tool path and ball diameter on the surface
roughness of
an Al-6061 workpiece taking into consideration
many values of burnishing force in the suitable field, where we
have used a new created path and compared its effect with two
conventional paths (zig-zag) and (spiral).
Twenty seven experiments were carried out on samples of Al-
6061, using the full factorial design method with three
parameters: ball diameter, ball path and force, with three levels of
each parameter.
