Roller Burnishing Method Using Combined Rolling and Sliding Effects

Accuracy of Discrete Element Method Simulations: Rolling and Sliding Frictions Effects-Case study: Iron Ore Pellets

The discrete element method (DEM) has been used as a popular simulation method in order to verify the designs by visualizing how materials flow through complex equipment geometries.  Although DEM simulation is a powerful design tool, finding a DEM model that includes all real material properties is not computationally feasible.  In order to obtain more realistic results, particle energy loss du...

Manufacturing Technology I Exercise 8 Hard Turning – Hard Roller Burnishing

The Rolling Resistances of Roller Skis and Their Effects on Human Performance during Treadmill Roller Skiing

Modern ski-treadmills allow cross-country skiers, biathletes and ski-orienteers to test their physical performance in a laboratory environment using classical and freestyle techniques on roller skis. For elite athletes the differences in performance between test occasions are quite small, thus emphasising the importance of knowing the roller skis’ rolling resistance coefficient, μR, in order to...

Roller Burnishing of Particle Reinforced Aluminium Matrix Composites

Energy and resource efficient systems often demand the use of light-weight materials with a specific combination of properties. However, these requirements usually cannot be achieved with homogeneous materials. Consequently, composites enabling tailored properties gain more and more importance. A special kind of these materials is aluminium matrix composites (AMCs), which offer elevated strengt...

Analysis of Surface Roughness and Micro-hardness in Roller Burnishing of Aluminum Alloy 6061

Burnishing is a chip-less finishing process, in which a hard roller or ball presses the surface layer of part to perform plastic deformation in the surface layer and produce improved finish, enhanced hardness and compressive residual stresses on the surface of special materials such as Aluminum and Brass. In the following research, the effect of input parameters such as feed rate, cutting speed...