Analysis Of Vibratory Ball Burnishing Process

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a. Introduction
In the quality assurance of machine components the so-called finishing and super-finishing processes have important roles. During recent years, the post-machining cold forming methods such as burnishing, shot peening, etc., have occupied a very important place in industry, because they are reported to induce compressive residual stresses on the work piece surface, which in turn, results in improvement of tribological properties such as wear resistance, fatigue life, corrosion resistance, etc. Burnishing, which is one of the effective methods used to improve the surface properties, is essentially a cold working process involving movement of raised micro-irregularities on the surface layer accompanied by filling up of micro-cavities. …show more content…

[13] reports an experimental investigation on vibratory ball burnishing process. Experiments were carried out to study the influence of various process parameters such as burnishing speed, feed, ball force, frequency and amplitude of vibration on the surface finish and micro hardness of surface layers produced by vibratory burnishing process. Experiments were planned based on response surface methodology (RSM) technique. Two mathematical models correlating process parameters with response parameters such as surface roughness and micro hardness were obtained. Influence on surface roughness can be explained as ahead; From results it is seen that increase of burnishing speed deteriorates the surface finish. Generally surface roughness increases with the feed and there is an interaction between ball force and the feed. Combination of low feed (0.07 mm/rev) with large force deteriorates the surface finish possibly due to over hardening and flaking of surface layers. Concerning the effect of burnishing force, for a constant feed value, increase of ball force initially improves the surface finish and then causes deteriorate, there by suggesting an optimum ball force. Considering the effect of frequency of vibrations it can say that very good surface finish can be obtained with the combination of large frequency and high ball force. In the range of parameters studied, the optimum ball force lies between 15-25 kgf. Influence on micro hardness explained here; it is …show more content…

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