• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2017

Nitinol, a shape memory alloy (SMA), is manufactured from titanium and nickel and it used in various fields such as electrical applications, micro sensors. It is also recommended as a material in medical for implant because it has excellent organic compatibility. Nitinol is intended to be inserted into the human body, products require a high-quality surface and low residual stress. To overcome this problems, explore electrolyte polishing (EP) is being explored that may be appropriate for use with nitinol. EP is a particularly useful machining method because, as a non contact machining method, it produces neither machining heat nor internal stress in the machined materials. Sandpaper polishing is also useful machining method because, as a contact machining method, it can easily good surface roughness in the machined materials. The electrolyte polishing (EP) process has an effect of improving the surface roughness as well as the film polishing process, but has a characteristic that the residual stress is hardly generated because the work hardened layer is not formed on the processed surface. The sandpaper polishing process has the effect of improving the surface roughness but the residual stress remains in the surface. We experimented with three conditions of polishing process. First condition is the conventional polishing. Second condition is the electrochemical polishing(EP). And Last condition is a mixing process with the conventional polishing and the EP. Surface roughness and residual stress of the nitinol before a polishing process were $0.474{\mu}mRa$, -45.38MPa. Surface roughness and residual stress of the nitinol after mixing process of the conventional polishing and the EP were $1.071{\mu}mRa$, -143.157MPa. Surface roughness and residual stress of the nitinol after conventional polishing were $0.385{\mu}mRa$ and -205.15MPa. Surface roughness and residual stress of sandpaper and EP nitinol were $1.071{\mu}mRa$, -143.157MPa. The result shows that the EP process is a residual stress free process that eliminates the residual stress on the surface while eliminating the deformed layer remaining on the surface through composite surface machining rather than single surface machining. The EP process can be used for biomaterials such as nitinol and be applied to polishing of wafers and various fields.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.191-198
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• 2023

We examined the martensitic transformation kinetics for metastable stainless steel during electrochemical polishing (EP) using different types of electrolytes. Martensite fraction measured with EBSD showed that the electrolyte with high relative permittivity exhibited comparably higher levels of martensitic transformation. The amount of charge build-up on the specimen surface during EP with different types of electrolytes was calculated using COMSOL multiphysics simulations to understand these phase transformation characteristics. The effect of charge build-up-induced stress was analyzed using previously published first-principles calculations. We discovered that the electrolyte with high relative permittivity accumulated a greater amount of charge build-up, resulting in a stronger driving force for stress-induced martensitic transformation.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.319-324
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 CNT-Co 복합체를 이용한 전해-자기(EP-MAP) 복합가공 공정을 개발하였다. CNT-Co 복합체는 높은 강도와 뛰어난 전기적 성질을 가지는 소재이기 때문에 전해-자기 복합가공의 연마재 및 전극으로 적합하다. 전해-자기 복합가공의 시너지 효과를 평가하기 위해서 각 실험조건하에서 특성평가 실험이 수행되었으며, 각 실험인자는 자기력, 전해액, 공구의 회전속도, 전해전압, 간극 등이 있다. 그 결과 CNT-Co 복합체와 화학적 반응이 없는 $NaNO_3$ 가 본 공정의 가장 적절한 전해액으로 선정되었다. 그리고 높은 자기력은 가공중의 CNT-Co 복합체내에 전해액 유동을 방해하는 인자이다. 이로 인해 공작물의 표면상의 가공부위에 열에너지가 상승하게 되고 공작물 표면손상과 피팅현상이 발생하여 가공효율성이 떨어지게 된다.