• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.10
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• pp.50-56
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• 2004

Finishing is the final process in molds manufacturing and consumes much process time. Also, it influences on surface quality of molds. But, there are few systematic methods to control the process. In this work, basic experiments were carried out to study the machining characteristics of the finishing tools. From the experiments, critical surface roughness and wear coefficient are suggested to reduce the number of finishing steps and to plan a systematic finishing procedure. Comparison experiments were carried out between the expert's method and the new method, which is based on the results of this research. From the experiments, it is verified that the systematic method takes less time and generates less form error in the machined surface than the worker's method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.10
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• pp.68-74
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• 1997

The surface finishing system using the micro abrasive film was designed and manufactured to make the mirror surface of the cylindrical workpices. An experimental study of srface finishing was carried out to investigate the performance of mirror surface finishing system. The surface roughness value of stainless steel was about 0.2 .approx. 0.25 .mu. m Rmax, 0.02 .approx. 0.04 .mu. m Ra, using abrasive grain size of 12, 9 .mu. m. The surface roughness value of chrome coated workpiece was about 0.07 .approx. 0.11 .mu. m Ra using abrasive grain size 3 .mu. m. In the same condition, the chrome coated workpiece has obtained better surface roughness charateristics than the one of stainless steel.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.779-782
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• 2000

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 proper suppling quantity of magnetic abrasives per diameter of pipe is important, and the inner surface roughness of pipe is not changed much after certain critical finishing time. As a result of this investigation the 3.2$\mu$m Rmax in inner surface roughness of stainless steel pipe is improved to 0.7$\mu$m Rmax after 6 minutes finishing.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.514-520
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• 2009

In configuring an automated polishing system, a monitoring scheme to estimate the surface roughness is necessary. In this study, a precision polishing process, magnetic abrasive finishing (MAF), along with an in-process monitoring setup was investigated. A magnetic tooling is connected to a CNC machining to polish the surface of stavax(S136) die steel workpieces. During finishing experiments, both AE signals and force signals were sampled and analysed. The finishing results show that MAF has nano scale finishing capability (upto 8nm in surface roughness) and the sensor signals have strong correlations with the parameters such as gap between the tool and workpiece, feed rate and abrasive size. In addition, the signals were utilized as the input parameters of artificial neural networks to predict generated surface roughness. Among the three networks constructed -AE rms input, force input, AE+force input- the ANN with sensor fusion (AE+force) produced most stable results. From above, it has been shown that the proposed sensor fusion scheme is appropriate for the monitoring and prediction of the nano scale precision finishing process.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.97-101
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• 1998

In this study, The ultra-precision finishing system is applicable to all kind of the cylnderical workpiece products fast and easy. This system was applied to chrome coated steel to investigate the characteristic of grinding; (1) 3$mu extrm{m}$ of abrasive film is not use for grinding performance. (2) Grinding condition of coated chrome steel would set up differently, in 30~12${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$, in 9~5${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. (3) The surface roughness of chrome coated steel was about Ra 0.0009${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ in abrasive grain size 5${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.134-139
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• 1998

There have been so manu study in the ultra-precision mirror finishing. Already Using system of experiments extract factors effecting surface roughness and find optimal machining conditions in 40${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$, 30${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$, 15${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ abrasive film. So in this study, Using Abrasive film of 12~3${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ extract factors effecting surface roughness and results are follows; Factor A(film feed) in 12${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ and 5${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ abrasive film, Factor A(film feed) and B(applied force) in 9${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ abrasive film, Factor C(grinding speed) in 3${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ abrasive film are main factor effecting surface roughness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1997.04a
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• pp.1049-1052
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• 1997

The pupose of this study on the surface finishing is to examine the performance of brushing as a means of reducing the surface roughness of the precision theaded shafts in ball screw assemblies. Ball screws provide superior performance compared to other types of screw feeds in terms of static and dynamic rolling resistance,backlash,and wear characteristics. The Reduction of the surface roughness of the lead shaft in ball screw assembiles is essential for precision movement,high speed/low noise tracel, and for low wear/long life. To reduce machine dependent errors that would influence the surface roughness compared with other lapping or polishing techniques,experiments will be performed using special wire brushes to polish precision ground shafts. The best results were obtained using the Al /sab 2/O /sab3/ brushes, with the Al /sab 2/O /sab3/ #500 grit brush producing a surface finish of approximately 0.7 .mu.m, and the Al /sab 2/O /sab3/ #600 grit producing a surface finish of approximately 0.8 .mu.m. Both of these results were produced at the highest wheel polishing speed of 3520 rpm. The SiC #500 brush produced a surface roughness of approximately 1 .mu.m at 3520 rpm.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.58-63
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• 2010

A new contact force estimation technique is proposed. Keeping the contact force at a certain level between finishing tool and the object is essential since the quality of the finished surface is very sensitive to the contact force during the finishing process. However, the contact force measurement cannot be obtained by simply installing load cells under machine table or in the middle of tool linkage. The reason is that the weight of the machine table and the tool linkage are much heavier than the force to be measured. To that end, a method for estimating disturbance is proposed for a system that is similar to the mechanism of the finishing machine, and the same method is applied to estimate the contact force of the brush-type finishing machine. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, a small scale test set-up has been built and the method has been tested.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1248-1252
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• 2005

Mold-manufacturing process consists of machining and finishing process that are strongly related in each other. But there are few studies about mold-manufacturing process to control those two processes simultaneously. Especially, runout distorts the machined surface from expected so it changes the finishing process and mold-manufacturing time. In this work, basic analyses and experiments were carried out to study RVAS variation according to runout in HSM. To perform those analyses, firstly surface generation analysis was done including runout in ball end milling and then the RVAS that could relate machining and finishing process was proposed. And the optimal finishing process in HSM according to RVAS was also proposed. Through experiment runout occurrence and above analyses were verified.