Experimental study on finishing forces in double disk magnetic abrasive finishing process while finishing paramagnetic workpiece

Abstract

Knowledge of finishing forces is important in any manufacturing process as the surface integrity of the finished surface is being affected. In the present work finishing force and torque were measured for a recently developed double disk magnetic abrasive finishing process. Investigations have been made to understand the effect of process factors namely upper and lower working gap rotational speed, abrasive weight percentage on the normal finishing force and finishing torque. Experiments were planned and performed based on Taguchi L9 orthogonal array. Analysis of variance has been used to analyze the experimental data. The analysis of the experimental data showed that normal finishing forces is affected most significantly by lower and upper working gap and finishing torque is effected mostly by the lower working gap and rotational speed of the magnetic disk. The surfaces finished by DDMAF process are characterized by SEM and the surface morphology has been correlated to finishing force and torque values.