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Shear Thickening Fluid in Surface Finishing Operations

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Shear Thickening Fluid

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For many years, various techniques have been utilized for surface finishing operations such as cutting, polishing, and grinding to obtain the desired topography or degree of smoothness. Those processes normally have limitations to treat multiple surfaces of a workpiece simultaneously, where those surfaces have different heights and/or orientations or where the surfaces are curved in a complex way. Very recently, shear thickening fluid (STF) has been introduced in this field, which enables polishing complex structures having surfaces with different heights and/or orientations. Further, owing to the reversible phase transition between liquid and solid status for the STF, the polishing process can be conducted without the use of the polishing pad. This chapter reviews both experimental and theoretical studies on the use of STF for manufacturing and surface finishing. The effects of operation conditions (such as speed and working gap) and material properties (such as grain size) on surface finishing are explored. In particular, recent efforts in developing analytical models for polishing process are introduced. In the final part of the chapter, the applications of the use of STF for surface finishing are discussed.

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Man, Z., Chang, L. (2023). Shear Thickening Fluid in Surface Finishing Operations. In: Gürgen, S. (eds) Shear Thickening Fluid. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25717-9_6

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