• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.9
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• pp.1013-1018
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• 2014

Magnetic Abrasive Polishing (MAP) process is a nontraditional method for polishing the surface of workpiece by using the flexibility of tool. At present, a mixture of polishing abrasives and ferrous particles is used as the tool in the MAP process. Previously, an experiment was conducted with different sizes of polishing abrasives with an aim to improve the polishing accuracy. However, the sizes of ferrous particles are also expected to have a dominant effect on the process, warranting a study on the effect of the size of ferrous iron particles. In this study, an experiment was conducted using three different sizes of ferrous particles. Iron powder of average diameters 8, 78 and $250{\mu}m$ was used as ferrous particles. The effect of each ferrous particle size was evaluated by comparing the improvements in surface roughness. The particle size of a ferrous iron was found to play a significant role in MAP and particles of $78{\mu}m$ facilitated the best improvement in surface roughness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.775-778
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• 2000

Magnetorheological Finishing(MRF) is a newly developed and recently commercialized for finishing optical components. The magnetorheological fluid consists of a water based suspension of carbonyl iron, nonmagnetic polishing abrasives, and small amounts of stabilizer. Theoretical analysis of MRF, based on Bingham lubrication theory, is illustrated and a correlation between surface shear stress on the workpiece and material removal is obtained.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.59-66
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• 2003

This study suggests the new ultraprecision finishing techniques for micro die and mold parts using magnetic field-assisted polishing. Conventional magnetic abrasives have several disadvantages, which are missing of abrasive particle and inequal mixture between magnetic particle and abrasive particle. Therefore, bonded magnetic abrasive particles are fabricated by several method. For example, plasma melting and direct bonding. Carbonyl iron powder is used as magnetic particle there silicon carbide and alumina are abrasive particles. Developed magnetic abrasives are analyzed using SEM. Feasibility of magnetic abrasive and polishing performance of this magnetic abrasive particles also have been investigated. After polishing, surface roughness of workpiece is reduced from 85.4 ㎚ Ra to 9 ㎚ RA.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.887-892
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• 2014

In a conventional magnetic abrasive polishing process, the polishing abrasives are mixed with ferrous particles and slight cutting oil to form a cluster of abrasives. However, when a tool rotates at a high revolution speed, most of the polishing abrasives are scattered away from it due to the increase in centrifugal force. This phenomenon directly reduces the polishing efficiency. The use of a highly viscous matter such as silicone gel instead of cutting oil for mixing is one method to solve this problem and increase abrasive adhesion. Another method to avoid high abrasive scattering is the application of wet magnetic abrasive polishing (WMAP). In WMAP, abundant mineral oil is preliminarily applied to the workpiece surface. This study experimentally evaluated the effect of WMAP on abrasive adhesion. The relationship between the amount of working abrasives and polishing conditions was characterized. Despite the lower adhesion ratio of polishing abrasives, the surface roughness was found to be significantly improved as the result of WMAP.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.82-82
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• 2003

산업이 발전함에 따라 연마 후의 요구 정밀도도 더욱 높아지고 있다. 하지만 일반적인 기계 가공으로는 연마하기 힘든 부위가 아직 너무 많은 것이 현실이다. 곡관부, 관내부, 가공물 사이에 있는 틈새부 등이 그 예이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 일반적인 기계 가공으로 연마하기 어려운 틈새부의 연마를 하기 위한 기본적인 자기 연마 특성을 관찰 하고자 하는 것이다. 본 연구에서 사용하는 Al은 Al-Mg합금으로 비열처리 5xxx계열이다. 이 합금은 고강도를 가지고 있으면서, 해수에 대한 내식성이 우수하여 널리 이용되는 금속이다. 본 연구에서 사용되는 실험 장치는 두개의 극(N-S) 사이에 연마 입자를 투입하여 브릿지를 형성한다. 이 브릿지 사이를 Al합금이 두개의 서버 모터에 의해 상대적인 운동을 하게 한다. 연마는 이러한 상대 운동을 이용하는 원리이다. 본 연구에서 이루어지는 실험은 연마 입자의 성분비와 양, 그리고 가공시간 등의 변수를 이용하여 가장 우수한 연마 조건을 선택하고자 한다. 차후 연구 과제는 본 연구에서 얻어지는 연마 특성을 이용하여 두 개의 평판 혹은 어려 개의 Al평판의 틈 즉, 일반적인 기계 가공으로 연마하기 힘든 부위의 연마에 적용하여 그 특성을 알아보고, 일선 산업 현장에 응용 가치를 알아보고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.74-80
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• 2004

An internal finishing process by the application of magnetic abrasive machining has been developed as a new technology to obtain a fine inner surface of pipe. In this paper, the finishing process of a non-ferromagnetic pipe by a static magnetic field method is introduced and its finishing characteristics is discussed with effective factors by various experiments. From these experimental results, it is found that the magnetic abrasives inserted in the pipe are arranged according to the magnetic force line. Through the experimental, it is possible to estimate the proper supply volume of the abrasive, which in proportional to the diameter of pipe.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.34-41
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• 2004

A new method to fabricate the fine magnetic abrasives by using mechanical alloying is proposed. The mechanical alloying process is a solid powder process where the powder particles are subjected to high energetic impact by the balls in a vial. As the powder particles in the vial are continuously impacted by the balls, cold welding between particles and fracturing of the particles take place repeatedly during the ball milling process using a planetary mill. After the manufacturing process, fine magnetic abrasives which the guest abrasive particles c lung to the base metal matrix without bonding material can be obtained. The shape of the newly fabricated fine magnetic abrasives was investigated using SEM and its polishing performance was verified by experiment. It is very helpful to finishing the injection mold steel in final polishing stage. The areal ms surface roughness of the workpiece after several polishing processes has decreased to a few nanometer scales.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.259-264
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• 2012

Automatic magnetic abrasive polishing (MAP), which can be applied after machining of a mold on a machine tool without unloading, is very effective for finishing a free-form surface such as a complicated injection mold. This study aimed to improve the efficiency of MAP of a non-ferrous mold surface. The magnetic array table and control of the electromagnet polarity were applied in the MAP of a free-form surface. In this study, first, the magnetic flux density on the mold surface was simulated to determine the optimal conditions for the polarity array. Then, the MAP efficiency for polishing a non-ferrous mold surface was estimated in terms of the change in the radius of curvature and the magnetic flux density. The most improved surface roughness was observed not only in the upward tool path but also in the working area of larger magnetic flux density.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2005

An internal finishing process by the application of magnetic abrasive finishing has been developed as a new technology to obtain a fine inner surface of pipe. In this paper, another method of magnetic abrasive machining in which the N and S magnetic poles are vibrated and a workpiece is rotated only is tried in a non-ferromagnetic pipe(SUS304), and its finishing characteristics is experimently investigated by various effective factors such as vibrating frequency and amplitude. From the experimental results, it is found that the vibration effects of magnetic poles on the finishing characteristics are large in internal finishing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.960-963
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• 2001

An internal finishing process by the application of magnetic abrasive machining has been developed as a new technology to obtain a fine inner surface of pipe. In this paper, another method of magnetic abrasive machining in which the N and S magnetic poles are vibrated and a workpiece is rotated only is tried in a non-ferromagnetic pipe(SUS304), and its finishing characteristics is experimental results, it is found that the vibration effects of magnetic poles on the finishing characteristics are large in internal finishing.