Investigation of the burnishing process with PCD tool on non-ferrous metals

It is well known that the no-chip machining process, burnishing, can easily improve surface roughness, waviness and hardness. To get the practical useful parameters, the effects of various burnishing parameters (spindle speed, depth, feed, burnishing radius and lathe) on surface roughness and waviness of the non-ferrous components were studied experimentally with a theoretical analysis. The experiments were conducted with a simply designed cylindrical surfaced polycrystalline diamond tool developed by us. It was found that smaller parameters do not mean lower surface roughness or waviness and different optimum burnishing parameters can be got under different burnishing conditions.