Abrasive flow polishing plays an important part in modern ultra-precision machining. Ultrafine particles suspended in the medium of abrasive flow removes the material in nanoscale. In this paper, three-dimensional molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to investigate the effect of impacting direction on abrasive cutting process during abrasive flow polishing. The molecular dynamics s...

Background: Determination of the number of abrasive particles embedded in the zirconia surface after variable parameters of treatment. METHODS One hundred thirty cylindrical disks made from zirconia were divided into 7 groups (n = 10): one control and six test groups treated by air abrasion using Al₂O₃ or SiC with grain sizes: 60, 110, 250 μm with a working pressure of 0.2 or 0.35 MPa. The SE...

An experimental investigation into material transfer and wear has been performed for the case of a ferrite probe sliding at high speeds (between 25 cm/set and 1250 cm/set) and low loads (10 gm) on a steel disk, a nickel plated disk, and a polymercoated disk, the latter containing finely dispersed abrasive particles. Autoradiographic methods together with microdensitometer analysis have been app...

Original scientific paper High-velocity water jet expanded into many fields of human activity due to its unique properties. Besides already traditional technological processes it begins to find its way also to the comminution of mineral particles. The paper analyzes the possibility of particle comminution using an abrasive mixing head used to generate high-velocity abrasive water jet and an imp...

Finishing methods of machining superhard composite’s working elements based on cubic boron nitride BL group are considered. The results the microgeometry formation research cutting inserts’ surfaces during by free powders synthetic diamond, grinding wheels and a method vibro-magnetic-abrasive (VMAM) presented. It is shown that VMAM friction between abrasive particles result in microremoval mate...

The surface roughness and material removal is investigated in electrorheological (ER) fluid-assisted polishing of tungsten carbide die. In this study, the microstructure of fibrous columns formed by particles perpendicular to the electrodes is observed by CCD when the electrical field is applied. The distribution of the electric field strength on the surface of workpiece was analyzed by ANSYS a...

It is well established that pad conditioning facilitates polish rate stability in chemicalmechanical polishing (CMP) of interlayer dielectic (ILD) silicon dioxide films and that in the absence of conditioning, polish rates decay over time [Stein et al., Lawing]. ILD rate decay is also associated with changes in pad surface morphology [Lawing, Kojima et al.]. In [Lawing], it was found that the p...

The Significance of Dust: Dust studies have already been identified as crucial components of missions to the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and Mercury over the next decade [1,2]. Detailed study of the physical and chemical nature of the fine particulate portion of regoliths of planetary bodies is a key to understanding micrometeorite bombardment and the nature of re-golith formation [e.g., 3]. The Pro...

Adhesive wear occurs by the transfer of material from one surface to another when two surfaces articulate against each other under load. The transferred material could break off and act as third-body particles resulting in abrasive wear. Abrasive wear occurs when material is removed from a surface by hard asperities on the counterface and hard particles (third body) trapped between the two cont...