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Burr formation and its treatments—a review

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Burrs, being one of the most undesired obstructions generated during machining, affects work piece quality negatively in many aspects. Although deburring removes burrs, this extra process is time consuming, costly and might affect dimensional accuracy. This study investigates mechanisms, effects and variations on burr formation in most common machining processes such as drilling, milling, turning and grinding based on the information available in literature. The problems related to burrs as well as ways and methods to remove burr and control or minimize burr formation has critically discussed. Burrs can be minimised by selecting proper tool geometry, tool materials, coolant, machining parameters, work piece material, process planning and tool path design. As there is no method that can eliminate burr formation, thus deburring is essential to eliminate burrs after machining. Manual tools, abrasive blasting, abrasive flow, magnetic abrasive finishing, centrifugal barrel finishing, thermal melting and electrochemical effect are most commonly used for deburring depending on material, size and precision of parts.

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    Song Yong Jin & A. Pramanik

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  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

    C. Prakash

  4. Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, India

    S. Shankar

  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University Malaysia, Sarawak, Malaysia

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Jin, S.Y., Pramanik, A., Basak, A.K. et al. Burr formation and its treatments—a review. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 107, 2189–2210 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-05203-2

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