M. Jackson, J. Burgess, M. Whitfield, M. Whitt, R. Da-Silva, M. DaSilva, A. Machado, R. Davis
{"title":"Advanced machining of miniature unmanned aircraft vehicle components using nanostructured cutting tools","authors":"M. Jackson, J. Burgess, M. Whitfield, M. Whitt, R. Da-Silva, M. DaSilva, A. Machado, R. Davis","doi":"10.1177/2516598420931023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420931023","url":null,"abstract":"The advanced machining of components used in miniature unmanned aircraft vehicles is the focus of this study. The finite element method (FEM) is used to predict forces and temperatures using cutting tool inserts with a thin nanostructured film of high integrity. Similarity models are used to validate the finite element results and to understand the influence of micromachining parameters on cutting temperatures generated when machining Al 380-0 alloy. The predicted results are compared to experimental forces and temperatures using a three-dimensional piezoelectric function dynamometer and a short-range infra-red wavelength thermal camera. Nanostructured thin layer coatings lower machining forces and temperatures, which are validated through FEM predictions and experimental observations. The experimental results suggest that increasing the cutting tool’s rake angle at higher depths of cut will reduce cutting temperatures, which are predicted using the similarity models for micromachining.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125377590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Mishra, D. Burada, V. Karar, A. Manna, S. Jha, G. Khan
{"title":"Investigations on flexible pad polishing for nano-finishing of freeform optics mold","authors":"V. Mishra, D. Burada, V. Karar, A. Manna, S. Jha, G. Khan","doi":"10.1177/2516598420939740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420939740","url":null,"abstract":"The need for freeform surfaces are widely recognized in the optical, aerospace, biomedical, and automotive industries. However, the fabrication of freeform surfaces is very difficult and expensive because of the involvement of advanced, multi-axis, dedicated machining processes. In many applications, the machining surface needs further polishing to reduce the surface roughness. The main aim of this work is to investigate the flexible pad polishing process for the finishing of the freeform surface. To achieve this, a flexible pad polishing setup is developed in two-axis configuration that can be integrated with a diamond turning machine or any other computer numerical control (CNC) machine and capable to polish the conventional rotationally symmetric surfaces as well as freeform surfaces. The polishing parameters for the developed polishing head are optimized for the nano-finishing of the freeform mold surface of Stavax ESR steel. The effectiveness of the current polishing setup is demonstrated by measuring the improvement in surface roughness height and profile. Test results reveal that the improvement on the freeform surface is significant, that is, surface roughness (Ra) reduces from 220 nm to 25 nm while keeping the profile within the desired tolerance.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124524196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geometry and thickness dependant anomalous mechanical behavior of fabricated SU-8 thin film micro-cantilevers","authors":"A. Basu, Anup Basak, S. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1177/2516598420930988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420930988","url":null,"abstract":"SU-8 micro-cantilever arrays consisting of V- and M-shaped structures fabricated using a simplified single hard mask step. Bending tests were performed under similar peak loads (ranging 2–10 µN), with thickness ranging between micron (3.5 µm) and sub-micron (0.2 µm) scales. Various mechanical properties such as stiffness and hysteresis are determined from the load versus deflection curves. When the thickness of the V-shaped beam is decreased from 2 µm to 0.2 µm, the stiffness increases by a factor of 2.7, which is in contradiction with the classical beam theory according to which the stiffness for 0.2 µm beam should be three orders of magnitude less than that of 2 µm beam. Micropolar elasticity theory with a variable-intrinsic length scale (thickness dependant) is used to explain such an anomalous response. Experimentally obtained stiffness of two M-shaped beams of thickness 2 µm and 0.2 µm are almost identical. Reason behind this contradictory result is that the thicker beam has a residual strain with a large plastic deformation which usually increases the cross-linking network density, leading to increase in elastic modulus, hardness and thus stiffness of polymers. But the thinner beam has undergone an elastic deformation. The size effect of V- and M-shaped cantilever beams is discussed.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125186053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of effect of uncut chip thickness to edge radius ratio on nanoscale cutting behavior of single crystal copper: MD simulation approach","authors":"A. Sharma, Prabhat Ranjan, R. Balasubramaniam","doi":"10.1177/2516598420937638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420937638","url":null,"abstract":"Extremely small cutting depths in nanoscale cutting makes it very difficult to measure the thermodynamic properties and understand the underlying mechanism and behavior of workpiece material. Highly precise single-crystal Cu is popularly employed in optical and electronics industries. This study, therefore, implements the molecular dynamics technique to analyze the cutting behavior and surface and subsurface phenomenon in the nanoscale cutting of copper workpieces with a diamond tool. Molecular dynamics simulation is carried out for different ratios of uncut chip thickness (a) to cutting edge radius (r) to investigate material removal mechanism, cutting forces, surface and subsurface defects, material removal rate (MRR), and stresses involved during the nanoscale cutting process. Calculation of forces and amount of plowing indicate that a/r = 0.5 is the critical ratio for which the average values of both increase to maximum. Material deformation mechanism changes from shear slip to shear zone deformation and then to plowing and elastic rubbing as the cutting depth/uncut chip thickness is reduced. The deformation during nano-cutting in terms of dislocation density changes with respect to cutting time. During the cutting process, it is observed that various subsurface defects like point defects, dislocations and dislocation loops, stacking faults, and stair-rod dislocation take place.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114273189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prediction of tool wear constants for diamond turn machining of CuBe","authors":"A. Sharma, D. Datta, R. Balasubramaniam","doi":"10.1177/2516598420930992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420930992","url":null,"abstract":"While several studies in diamond turning of homogeneous materials like Cu, Al, and Si are well published, there is a lack of understanding about tool wear in case of heterogeneous materials like CuBe. Severity of the tool wear can be understood from the magnitude of the wear coefficients, and the magnitude of these coefficients is influenced by the wear mechanism. Hence, this study is aimed to calculate the wear coefficients from a known tool wear model in diamond turn machining of CuBe. Molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) results show that stress and temperature are responsible for increasing rate of tool wear. From the experimental results, change in the tool cutting edge radius due to wear was obtained and the temperature and stress for various a/r were found out using MDS. With these data, the wear coefficients, A & B, from a wear model for diamond turning were calculated. This methodology of using MDS to obtain stress and temperature for various a/r wherein, values of r are obtained from a single machining trial on actual material, will be useful for calculating the wear coefficients for the combination of single crystal diamond tool with various work piece materials and their activation energies.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116142677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Laser-assisted grinding of reaction-bonded SiC","authors":"Xichun Luo, Zhipeng Li, Wenlong Chang, Yukui Cai, Jining Sun, Fei Ding, Fei-hu Zhang, Haitao Liu, Yazhou Sun","doi":"10.1177/2516598420965342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420965342","url":null,"abstract":"The article presents the development of a novel laser-assisted grinding (LAG) process to reduce surface roughness and subsurface damage in grinding reaction-bonded silicon carbide (RB-SiC). A thermal control approach is proposed to facilitate the process development, in which a two-temperature model (TTM) is applied to control the required laser power to thermal softening of RB-SiC prior to the grinding operation without melting the workpiece or leaving undesirable microstructural alteration. Fourier’s law is adopted to obtain the thermal gradient for verification. An experimental comparison of conventional grinding and LAG shows significant reduction of machined surface roughness (37%–40%) and depth of subsurface damage layer (22%–50.6%) using the thermal control approach under the same grinding conditions. It also shows high specific grinding energy 1.5 times that in conventional grinding at the same depth of cut, which accounts for the reduction of subsurface damage as it provides enough energy to promote ductile-regime material removal.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128316825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of wavelength for tight temperature control during μ-laser-assisted machining","authors":"A. Dennis, S. Goel, Rajab Al-Sayegh, W. O'Neill","doi":"10.1177/2516598420917866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420917866","url":null,"abstract":"The area of single point diamond turning of brittle materials like semiconductors and ceramics is significantly benefitted by incorporation of laser assistance. In a new developmental technology that is now recognized as micro-laser-assisted machining (μ-LAM), a laser is shone through a diamond tool to soften the high-pressure phase transformed ductile machining phases that in turn allows thermal softening and thereby enables a higher material removal rate during ductile mode machining. One of the lasers currently used in μ-LAM is the neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Nd:YAG) laser operating at 100 W (continuous wave) at the wavelength of 1064 nm. Although this configuration has worked to the benefit of the technology, here we report futuristic developments that will significantly enhance temperature control by selecting a laser wavelength according to the material being machined, allowing tunable machining properties. The concept is illustrated with sample calculations for μ-LAM of silicon, and it appears to offer better target temperatures, thus enhancing the performance of the μ-LAM process.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125786735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ankur Gupta, Poonam Sundriyal, A. Basu, Kapil Manoharan, R. Kant, S. Bhattacharya
{"title":"Nano-finishing of MEMS-based platforms for optimum optical sensing","authors":"Ankur Gupta, Poonam Sundriyal, A. Basu, Kapil Manoharan, R. Kant, S. Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1177/2516598419862676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598419862676","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The surface finish of the microelectromechanical systems substrate, particularly the ones that are deployed in chip-based optofluidic systems, is of utmost importance, and the overall surface finish helps in preventing light scattering and associated losses. The proposed system is made up of a microchannel with a coating on its interior which acts as a cladding layer and possesses an air-like refractive index. The water-based solutions with refractive indices higher than the coating, when confined within such channels, act as waveguides with a refractive index difference which would allow grazing incidence at the solution film interface. The microchannel is fabricated over a piece of Si along <100> direction with the help of lithography and wet etching technique. After wet chemical etching of silicon, multiple pyramidal hillocks with overall large surface roughness is observed which are not appropriate for loss-free light transmission and cause various optical losses. So the overall optimization of surface roughness created by the etching processes is critical from an optical standpoint. Roughness in the microchannel surface mainly arises due to wet etching through tetra methyl alcohol, potassium hydroxide, potassium ferricyanide and isopropyl alcohol. In this work, we have obtained surface finish upto ~1.33 nm at an etch rate of 141 nm/min which is obtained by tweaking the composition of the participating reagents in the etchants and also the etching temperature. The surface roughness obtained is quite small in comparison to the wavelength range of the visible spectrum and thus losses were greatly avoided. The low refractive index films over silicon substrate were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive analysis of X-ray, atomic force microscopy, 3D optical profilometry and ellipsometry. The transmission results show that transmission loss was reduced by 27.42% for the coated samples with 33 nm surface roughness as compared to surface with 250 nm roughness.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125984922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microelectro Discharge Machining: Principles and Applications, by Ajay M. Sidpara and Ganesh Malayath","authors":"M. K. Pradhan, R. Patel","doi":"10.1177/2516598420917871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420917871","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133704596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Varun Sharma, P. M. Pandey, U. S. Dixit, A. Roy, V. Silberschmidt
{"title":"Finite element simulations of conventional and ultrasonically assisted turning processes with plane and textured cutting inserts","authors":"Varun Sharma, P. M. Pandey, U. S. Dixit, A. Roy, V. Silberschmidt","doi":"10.1177/2516598419878022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598419878022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates the performance of conventional turning and ultrasonically assisted turning (UAT) processes with plane and textured cutting inserts. Simulations based on the finite-element method were carried out using a software package ABAQUS/Explicit (Dassault Systemes, France). The obtained results were validated experimentally by employing a specially developed UAT setup. The purpose of the paper is to analyze cutting-force variation by the use of textured cutting inserts. Optimized dimensions of the texture pattern were used to model textured cutting inserts. The cutting-force variation in UAT was assessed with finite-element method, confirming diminishing cutting forces at a tool–workpiece interface during a noncontact time. The use of the textured cutting inserts in the UAT process resulted in the lowest cutting forces when compared to a plane tool in UAT as well as both plane and textured tools in the conventional turning process.","PeriodicalId":129806,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Micromanufacturing","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115811176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}