Advances in Magnetic Abrasive Finishing for Futuristic Requirements - A Review

Abstract

Magnetic abrasive finishing (MAF) process is an advance machining process that produces high quality surface by removing material from the work piece surfaces. The magnetic abrasive finishing process have been classified according to finishing profile of surface i.e. cylindrical surface finishing, inner surface finishing and plane surface finishing. This paper summarized better understanding about the experimental work that had been performed on process and response parameters. The surface roughness and material removal highly depend on machining gap and magnetic flux density. The importance of mathematical modelling and simulation, finite element method for modelling and simulating of magnetic forces, Surface roughness and surface temperature to improve the performance of the magnetic abrasive finishing process has bee also described in this paper. Super-alloy, composites and advanced ceramics can be effortlessly finished by using different type of MAF process. Different monitoring and control system also have been studied by many researchers for superior regulatory of process performance parameters of magnetic abrasive. At last this paper reveal the influence of alternating parameters of different field in MAF process and it have excellent scattering effect.