Examination of residual stresses on diamond burnished cylindrical surfaces

Abstract

Cold plastic finish manufacturing methods such as surface rolling, burnishing and surface hardening with shot peening play important role in the lifetime increasing manufacturing as compressive residual stress remains in near surface layers of the workpiece. This paper deals with examination of changing of residual stress caused by burnishing using diamond tipped tools. The diamond burnishing executed on outer cylindrical surfaces is a finishing manufacturing operation which results high accuracy and fine surface texture. The aim of the examinations was to determine how the burnishing speed, feed rate and burnishing force has affect on the residual stresses in case of diamond burnishing of low alloyed aluminium shafts. The Taguchi type Factorial experiment design was used for planning of experiments. The measurement of residual stresses was performed by an X-ray diffraction method. The evaluation of measured results was done by a specially specified ratio to determine the parameter set which results the best residual stress values in between the given range of technological parameters.