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An efficient approach to improving the finishing properties of abrasive flow machining with the analyses of initial surface texture of workpiece

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Abrasive flow machining (AFM) is a non-traditional finishing process by using the semi-solid abrasive media as a finishing tool, and usually applied to finish fine, complex components in manufacturing industries. In AFM process, the final surface quality and finishing efficiency are crucial finishing properties which have drawn wide attention and are always affected by initial surface texture of the workpiece. In the present research, the flow direction of abrasive media is determined according to the calculation of surface anisotropy ratio Str and texture direction Std of the initial surface texture by using the autocorrelation function, and selection of particle size is given after calculation of the spatial frequency of the initial surface texture using a fast Fourier transform. It was found that the flow direction of abrasive media should be perpendicular to the oriented surface texture, and the particle size in abrasive media has a strong relationship to the first harmonic frequency f1 of surface texture. Finally, the above approach was employed to the surface finish analysis of an aero-engine blade, and its efficiency was verified in the improvement of finishing properties.

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The authors appreciate the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions.

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This work was supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (Grant No. 2019A1515010720), NSFC-Guangdong Joint Fund Project (Grant No. U1801259), Creative Research Groups of NSFC (Grant No. 51621064), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1708256), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. DUT17ZD201, DUT18GF104).

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    Youzhi Fu & Qiusheng Yan

  2. Key Laboratory for Precision and Non-traditional Machining Technology of Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    Hang Gao & Xuanping Wang

  3. Key Laboratory of Special Purpose Equipment and Advanced Processing Technology of Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310024, China

    Xu Wang

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Fu, Y., Gao, H., Yan, Q. et al. An efficient approach to improving the finishing properties of abrasive flow machining with the analyses of initial surface texture of workpiece. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 107, 2417–2432 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-05173-5

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