Micro-Machining Characteristics in High-Speed Magnetic Abrasive Finishing for Fine Ceramic Bar

Abstract

The research aims to describe the micro-machining characteristics in a high-speed magnetic abrasive finishing, which is applicable for achieving the high surface accuracy and dimensional accuracy of fine ceramic bars that are typically characterized by strong hardness and brittle susceptibility. In this paper, the high-speed magnetic abrasive finishing was applied to investigate how the finishing parameters would have effects on such output parameters as surface roughness, variation of diameters, roundness, and removed weight. The results showed that, under variants of diamond abrasives sizing between (1, 3 and 9 µm), 1 µm showed comparatively good values as for surface roughness and roundness within shortest processing time. When the optimal condition was used, the surface roughness Ra and roundness (LSC) were improved to 0.01 µm and 0.14 µm, respectively. The tendency of diameter change could be categorized into two regions—stable and unstable. The finding from the study was that the performance of ultra-precision processing linear controlling was possibly achievable for the stable region of diameter change, while linearly controlling diameters in the workpiece.

Keywords

• micro-machining
• high-speed magnetic abrasive finishing
• fine ceramic bar
• surface roughness (<i>R</i>a)
• roundness (LSC)
• removed weight (RW)