A Study of Polishing Parameters to Surface Roughness of Magnetorheological Polishing Methods

Abstract

The study aims to determine the effect of polishing parameters as well as polishing speed, abrasive sizes and electric current on surface roughness of titan alloy in the magnetorheological polishing (MRP) methods. When the electric field is applied, the rheological properties of MRP fluid will be changed in the machining process. As a result, the viscosity and shear yield stress of MRP fluid was greatly improved under applied electric current. The workpiece surface can be polished by the abrasive particles with adhering to MR fluid. The influence of polishing parameters on the surface roughness was investigated by experiments. The experimental results indicated that the polishing speed has a great influence on the surface roughness of workpiece. With the increase of the polishing speed, the best surface roughness can be obtained by using the MRP method. The abrasive size had very little effect on surface quality improvement when it was changed in the experimental process. In addition, the electric current also has a strong effect on the surface quality of workpiece. As a result, the surface roughness of ball titan alloy workpiece (Ø32 mm) was reduced rapidly from Ra = 120 nm to Ra = 18 nm under the appropriate machining conditions.