• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.316-321
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• 2011

Recently, it has been studied machining of micro parts with increasing demands for ultra precision parts. However, many engineering problems have already begun in polishing of optical parts or lens. As a method to overcome such problems, a new technology for the polishing of the target surface is being studied by controlling abrasives using MR fluids which are sensitive to magnetic fields. Since the current MR polishing system uses a big electromagnet, and is difficult to polish micro parts or spherical lens. Therefore, in this study, a round endmill type MR polishing system was developed to polish a three-dimensional structure which has spherical or inclined plane. And then, series of experiments were performed to verify the polishing performance of the developed round endmill type MR polishing system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.133-140
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• 2009

Presented in this paper is a method to generate round-endmill toolpaths for sculptured surfaces represented as a triangular mesh model. The proposed method is applicable in toolpath generation for ball-endmills and flat-endmills because the round-endmill is a generalized tool in three-axis NC (numerical control) milling. The method uses a wireframe model as the offset model that represents a cutter location surface. Since wireframe models are relatively simple and fast to calculate, the proposed method can process large models and keep high precision. Intersection points with the wireframe offset model and a tool guide plane are calculated, and intersection curves are constructed by tracing the intersection points. The final step of the method is extracting regular curves from the intersection curves including degenerate and self-intersected segments. The proposed method is implemented and tested, and a practical example is presented.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.632-638
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• 2011

Recently, it has been studying for the polishing process of micro parts widely. However, present MR polishing system, it is difficult to minimize electromagnet and to polish sphere or slope parts. Then, it can not be obtained demanded surface quality. In this study, material removal characteristics of BK7 glass using round endmill type MR polishing system were investigated through series of experiment. The experiments were investigated by changing imposed polishing conditions, such as rotational speed and polishing depth. As a results, very high material removal was obtained at 0.7mm gap distance, 1,980rpm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.513-514
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• 2010