Technological Advances in Magnetic Abrasive Finishing for Surface Treatment of Alloys and Ceramics

Magnetic abrasive finishing process is super-finishing process which comes in class of magnetic assisted finishing process. This process is used to super finish advance material such as super-alloys, ceramics, and composites with tolerance in microns of surface roughness. This work will throw some light on the classification based on the magnetic field generated by magnets. This paper will give a detailed insight of experimental investigation on the co-relation existed between process parameters, i.e., machining gap, circumferential speed, vibration, and magnetic particles composition and performance responses, i.e., material removal, surface temperature, and surface roughness. The importance of analytical and mathematical modeling along with simulation based on finite element methods also discussed in this paper. The important response parameter which had been simulated was magnetic forces, surface temperature, and surface roughness. This paper will give better understanding of hybrid magnetic abrasive finishing process which had been created by fusion of different advance machining processes at last.