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Effect of relative feeding direction on surface texture in abrasive cloth flap wheel polishing process

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Automatic polishing of complex parts with flexible abrasive tools has received extensive attention due to its good compliance. Many parameters control the polishing process, but critical process parameters can significantly affect the polishing effect. As a specific case, the relative feed direction of abrasive cloth flap wheel (ACFW) polishing has not been studied enough. In this paper, two targeted experiments were carried out to reveal the removal characteristics of abrasive grains during polishing with the ACFW and the influence of relative feed direction on surface texture. The surface texture parameters are tested and analyzed, including roughness, waviness, and texture direction. Then the influence mechanism of relative feed direction is analyzed, and how to reasonably select the relative feed direction angle is discussed. The research results show that the polishing area is asymmetric relative to the project axis, and there are craters impacted by abrasive grains at the ACFW contact-in side, while the scratch on the contact-out side gradually becomes shallow to disappear. In single-line polishing, the roughness of longitudinal polishing is the best, and the waviness of oblique polishing is the best. The polished mark is along the feed direction by direct observation, but the texture direction observed by magnification is the cutting direction of abrasive grains. The characteristics of abrasive grain trajectory and contact force distribution can well explain the resulting surface texture difference.

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The authors deeply acknowledge the Key Laboratory of High Performance Manufacturing for Aero Engine (Northwestern Polytechnical University) and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Manufacturing Technology for Aero Engine (Northwestern Polytechnical University) for providing us with the ability to conduct this research.

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This work was supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China [No. 2017-VII-0001–0095], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [No. 51675439], the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi [No. 2022JQ-503], and the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi [No. 2022JQ-464].

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  1. Key Laboratory of High Performance Manufacturing for Aero Engine, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Yun Zhang, Xiaojun Lin, Yaoyao Shi & Rui Yang

  2. Engineering Research Center of Advanced Manufacturing Technology for Aero Engine, Ministry of Education, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Yun Zhang, Xiaojun Lin, Yaoyao Shi & Rui Yang

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Aeronautical University, Xi’an, 710077, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Zhen Chen

  4. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an, 710055, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Junfeng Zhang

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Conceptualization, Xiaojun Lin and Yaoyao Shi; methodology, Yun Zhang; investigation and data analysis, Yun Zhang and Rui Yang; writing—original draft preparation, Yun Zhang; writing—review and editing, Zhen Chen and Junfeng Zhang; funding acquisition, Yaoyao Shi, Xiaojun Lin, Zhen Chen, and Junfeng Zhang.

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Zhang, Y., Lin, X., Shi, Y. et al. Effect of relative feeding direction on surface texture in abrasive cloth flap wheel polishing process. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 124, 79–96 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-10492-w

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