INVESTIGATION OF EFFECT OF PROCESS PARAMETERS ON ROLLER BURNISHING (RB) PROCESS USING DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS

摘要

This paper aims to study the effect of various process parameters on performance characteristic of Roller Burnishing (RB) process experimentally and to develop the empirical relationship between important process parameters and response characteristics. For this purpose, Design of Experiments (DOE) is employed for conducting the experiments and analyzing the data. Various process parameters (feed direction, work-piece material, speed, feed, no. of passes and coolant) are grouped according to their nature and the objectives of a particular set of experiments. Furthermore, Taguchi's L18 orthogonal array is employed to study the effect of these process parameters on the response characteristic (MR, SSR, and ARa). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is performed on the results. The significant parameters are identified and their effect on response parameters is studied.