Determination of Surface Roughness by Ball Burnishing Process Using Factorial Techniques

Burnishing is a method of finishing and hardening
machined parts by plastic deformation of the surface. Experimental
work based on central composite second order rotatable design has
been carried out on a lathe machine to establish the effects of ball
burnishing parameters on the surface roughness of brass material.
Analysis of the results by the analysis of variance technique and the
F-test show that the parameters considered, have significant effects
on the surface roughness.

• P. S. Dabeer
• G. K. Purohit

• Ball burnishing
• Response surface Methodology.

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