A Study on a Polishing Process of Cr12 Hardening Steel with the Embedded Combined Tools

摘要

This paper presents a electrochemical-mechanical combined polishing progress of Cr12 hardening steel with a new kind of embedded tool. The embedded tool has been composed of two parts, the metal base acting as electrode and the inlayer with electroplating diamond grains on its outside surface which serves as mechanical grinding abrasive. The two parts are agglutinated by adhesive which can keep a good insulation of the inlayer during the mechanical process. The inter-electrode gap can be changed by altering the metal base and inlayer's diameter. Through the investigation of numerical simulation and polishing experiment, it can be found that lower feed, reciprocate speed, longer trip of reciprocating, smaller diamond grains make better surface quality.