• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.203-208
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• 1998

Materials of the Frame hole in fishing trackle reel is made up a number large and small holes. Thus, it is difficult to effective machining. Abrasive flow machining(AFM) is useful to polish a internal or external surface of the 3-dimensional shape parts, which are used in many fields such as aerospace, automative, semi-conductor, and medical component industries. The machining process is that two hydraulic cylinders, which are located face to face, enforce abrasive media to the passage between workpiece and tooling parts alternately, and then the abrasives include in the media pass the passage and polish the surface of workpiece. The media which is made of polymer and abrasives plays the role of the tool for deburring or polishing complex shap workpiece by its viscoelastic characteristics. In this study, the abrasive media for abrasive flow machining was made by mixing viscielastic polymer with alunina and silicon carbide abrasive. Also, we present AFM device design and preliminary results of an investigation in to some aspects of the AFM process performance in fishing trackle reel.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.915-918
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• 1997

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, an abrasive circulation system was designed and manufactured. As a result, it was found that a fine inner surface abrasive of pipe was available by the use of this machining methods. The basic machining characteristics of pin-type magnetic tools were analyzed experimentally. In addition, the experimental results show that we can realize that pin-type magnetic tools have more machining efficiency than iron particles as magnetic tools.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.379-382
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• 2004

Abrasive jet machining (AJM) has a large number of parameters such as powder flow rate, air pressure, diameter of abrasive, stand off distance, material hardness and fracture toughness, etc. It is not easy matter to control those parameter. To achieve high accurate machining, in this study, Taguchi method was used to select process parameters. The objective of the optimization was to get higher material removal rate (MRR). From the experiments and analysis, some process parameters were found to make efficient machining.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.14-20
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• 1998

Automatic finishing process requires the development of high efficient and precision abrasive machining method for dies and molds. This study describes the evaluation of the finishing characteristics, such as surfrace roughness, topography and material removal depth of the electrolytic mixed abrasive machining methods. Experimental setup is composed of 3 axis machining center, a newly developed finishing attachment with constant pressure, electrode and electrolytic bath. Finally, we achieved a successful result that surface roughness is $0.01\mu$m Ra and material removal depth is $120\mu$m using electrolytic(0.8A. 30V) mixed abrasive (#400 CBN, #320 SiC) machining method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.937-941
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• 1997

Utomatic finishing process requires the development of high efficient and precision abrasive machining method for die and molds. This study describes the evaluation of the finishing characteristics, such as sufrace roughness, topography and material removal depth, of the electrolytic chemical mixed abrasive machining method. Experimental setup is composed of 3 axis machining center, a newly developed finishing attachment with constant pressure, electrode and electrolytic bath. Finally, we achieved a successful result that surface roughness is 0.01 .mu. m Ra and material removal depth is 145 .mu. m after 100 times repeat-finishing using electrolytic (0.8A,30V) mixed abrasive (#400 CBN, #320 Sic) machining method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1996.10a
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• pp.138-143
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• 1996

The 3-dimensional complex parts which construct automobile and aerospace parts are very difficult to polish by traditional polishing method. Abrasive flow machining is useful to polish an internal or external surface of the 3-dimensional shape part. In this paper media flow between workpiece and tooling part has been simulated and the charateristics of abrasive flow machining process have been analyzed according to various machining conditions by calculating the material removal and surface roughness.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.91-97
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• 2010

Micro-abrasive Jet Machining is one of the new technology which enables micro-scale machining on the surface of high brittle materials. In this technology it is very important to fabricate a mask that prevents excessive abrasives not to machine un-intend surface. Our previous work introduced the micro-stereolithography technology for the mask fabrication. And is good to not only planar material but also for non-planar materials. But the technology requires a 3 dimensional mask CAD model which is perfectly matched with the surface topology of parent material as an input. Therefore there is strong need to develop an automated modeling technology which produce adequate 3D mask CAD model in fast and simple way. This paper introduces a fast and simple mask modeling algorithm which represents geometry of models in voxel. Input of the modeling system is 2D pattern image, 3D CAD model of parent material and machining parameters for Micro-abrasive Jet Machining. And the output is CAD model of 3D mask which reflects machining parameters and geometry of the parent material. Finally the suggested algorithm is implemented as software and verified by some test cases.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.190-195
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• 1997

The requirement of precision products about difficult-to-cut materials such as Cu and Aluminum alloy is becoming more and more. Because of soft materials, the exist narrow groves on surface are difficult to gotten off even on the polishing stage. It has been proved that Magnetic-Electrolytic-Abrasive Polishing (MEAP) is a efficient method to resolve this problem by using the nonwoven-abrasive pads together [1, 2]. In this study, through the experiments, their machining properties of newly developer polishing material of SiC, Al2O3 and diamond nonwoven abrasive pads have been proved. Through the experiments, the optimal machining conditions on larger cylinder shape workpiece of Cu and Aluminium alloy have been found, through the Taguchi[3] method the optimal machining conditions can be selected.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.964-967
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• 2002

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 feed and a workpiece is rotated only is tried in a fine-pipe, and its finishing characteristics is experimently investigated by various effective factors such as feeding amplitude. From the experimental results, it is found that the feed 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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• 1996.04a
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• pp.8-13
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• 1996

A relatively new non-traditional finishing process called Abrasive Flow Machining(AFM) is being used to deburr, polish and radius workpiece or produce compressive residual stresses by flowing an abrasive-laden viscoelastic compound across the surface to be machined. This paper presents the effects of AFM on surfaces of tool steel produced by EDM and W-EDM. Using AFM, white layer produced by EDM is erased almost equally and the amount of metal removal is significantly affected the initally machined surface condition of workpiece. The dimension of workiece is enlarged and its surface roughness is improved as AFM time is increased. The optimal AFM time can be established from the experimental results. It is considered that the grinding method lide AFM is useful to grind complex or slim geometry of workpiece even. Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM) was used to study the surface characteristics of the workpiece before and after AFM.