Experimental investigation of magnetorheological finishing on copper alloy

Abstract

Abstract Micro and nano finished surface has its great demand in industrial as well as medical application for their superior properties. Recently newer methods are developed to get the nanometric surface finish. Magnetorheological (MR) finishing is the processes which can generate nano level surface finish. Therefore finishing of metals by using MR finishing process is required to be studied. MR finishing can remove the material of hard and difficult to cut engineering materials for their electronic, optical, etc. industrial applications. The MR finishing is a newly developed technique which uses MR fluid for finishing of the materials. MR fluid is the combination of carbonyl iron particles (CIP), abrasive and a carrier fluid such as water. In this study, introduction to the process has presented. Literature has been study in the area of MR finishing for different development of setups for different materials. MR finishing carried out on the copper alloy workpiece to investigate the MR finishing process and their parametric analysis. Results show that significant improvement in the surface finish of the work surface.