A study for determining the most significant parameters of the ball-burnishing process over some roughness parameters of planar surfaces carried out on CNC milling machine

Abstract

Ball burnishing process often applies for obtaining specifically characteristics in the surface layer of the functional surfaces of the machine parts. Using CNC machines for carrying out this process significantly increases the possibility of control the characteristics of the toolpath of the ball tool and thus to produce regularly distributed roughness with specific size and direction of cells alignment. The current study presents obtained results from L8 Taguchi experimental design for determining the significantly influenced parameters of the ball burnishing process carried out on CNC milling machine on the size and arrangement direction of the cells form regular distributed roughness on planar surfaces.