Acceleration mechanism of abrasive particle in ultrasonic polishing under synergistic physical vibration and cavitation: Numerical study

Xin Chen, Shucong Xu, Juan Ignacio Ahuir-Torres, Zixuan Wang, Xun Chen, Tianbiao Yu, Ji Zhao · 2023

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Xin Chen leads a seven-author team simulating how ultrasonic polishing accelerates abrasive particles, in a study from two thousand twenty-three. Such methods polish engineering ceramics, no matter how hard the material is. Sound-driven vibration and cavitation bubbles both push the abrasive grains that do the cutting. The team asks how the two work as one.

Past work treated each effect on its own, in separate media. The contact zone in real polishing mixes abrasive, workpiece, vibration, and cavitation all at once. The team built a unified numerical model of that zone. It brings in free abrasive velocity and fixed abrasive indentation depth across scales. Contact theory from Hertz and the Greenwood-Williamson model backs the mechanics at its base. The run makes clear how the joint push of vibration and cavitation speeds the abrasives up.

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CREATORXin Chen, Shucong Xu, Juan Ignacio Ahuir-Torres, Zixuan Wang, Xun Chen, Tianbiao Yu, Ji Zhao
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE44 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10746559

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