Improvement of flat surface roughness by choosing the optimum diameter of the ball burnishing tool and its trajectory


Abstract in English

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.

References used

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Mayank K Patel and Manish D Patel 2012 OPTIMIZATION OF INPUT PROCESS PARAMETERS FOR VIBRATORY BALL BURNISHING PROCESS USING RSM, International Journal of Research in Engineering & Applied Sciences, Vol.2, 372-381

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