Chemo Assisted Magnetic Abrasive Finishing: Experimental Investigations

Abstract

In modern industries with advancement of technology advanced engineering materials are needed to be used like Tungsten, Titanium alloys, ceramics, various composites etc. These materials possess some special characteristics such as high hardness, high wear resistance, high toughness, high strength etc. which make them preferred over conventional materials in modern industries. Due to the stringent properties these materials are difficult to process. Different conventional finishing processes like grinding, lapping, honing, buffing etc. are generally inefficient in finishing these materials. Although processes like abrasive flow machining, magnetic field assisted finishing processes and chemo-mechanical finishing may be used but these may be less productive. Therefore a new process which uses combination of chemical oxidation and magnetic field assisted abrasion (magnetic abrasive finishing) has been conceived in the present work for faster processing.