Experimental investigation and mechanism of material removal in nano finishing of MMCs using abrasive flow finishing (AFF) process

Wear

Volumn 266, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 688-698

  Sankar, Mamilla Ravi ^a   Ramkumar, J ^a   Jain, V K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Abrasive flow finishing (AFF); Al alloy; Al alloy SiC MMCs; Change in average surface finish ( Ra)

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVES; ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; METAL EXTRUSION; METAL RECOVERY; PLASTICIZERS; REINFORCEMENT; SILICON CARBIDE; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ABRASIVE PARTICLES; AL ALLOY; AL ALLOY/SIC MMCS; AVERAGE SURFACE ROUGHNESS; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; DIFFERENT PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXTRUSION PRESSURES; MATERIAL REMOVALS; MATRIX MATERIALS; METAL - MATRIX COMPOSITES; NANO FINISHING; NUMBER OF CYCLES; OIL CONTENTS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS; WEIGHT PERCENTAGES; WORK-PIECES;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 61549130304     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2008.08.017     Document Type: Article

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