An experimental investigation of rotary ultrasonic face milling

Citation
Zj. Pei et Pm. Ferreira, An experimental investigation of rotary ultrasonic face milling, INT J MACH, 39(8), 1999, pp. 1327-1344
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Mechanical Engineering
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MACHINE TOOLS & MANUFACTURE
ISSN journal
08906955 → ACNP
Volume
39
Issue
8
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1327 - 1344
Database
ISI
SICI code
0890-6955(199908)39:8<1327:AEIORU>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Reliable and cost-effective machining of advanced ceramics is crucially imp ortant for them to be widely used in a number of critical engineering appli cations. The potential of Rotary Ultrasonic Machining (RUM) process has bee n recognized as one of the reliable and cost-effective machining methods fo r advanced ceramics and commercial machinery is available for the process. One limitation of the commercial RUM machines is that only circular holes c an be efficiently machined. An approach to extend the RUM process to fare m illing of ceramics was proposed and the development of the experimental app aratus as well as the preliminary experimental results were published earli er in this journal. As a follow-up, this paper will present the results of an experimental investigation of the newly-developed Rotary Ultrasonic Face Milling (RUFM) process. In this investigation, a five-variable two-level f ractional factorial design is used to conduct the experiments. The purpose of these experiments is to reveal the main effects as well as the interacti on effects of the process parameters on the process outputs such as Materia l Removal Rate (MRR), cutting force, material removal mode and surface roug hness. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.