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    Effect of cryogenic diamond burnishing on residual stress and microhardness of 17-4 PH stainless steel
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2018) Sachin, B.; Narendranath, S.; Dupadu, D.
    Diamond burnishing is a cold working process, which produces a work hardened and uniform surface by plastic deformation. The aim of the present work is to study the behavior of diamond burnishing on surface integrity of 17-4 precipitation hardenable stainless steel (PH-SS) under cryogenic, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and dry environments. Surface modification was achieved by the application of liquid nitrogen during diamond burnishing. The process parameters considered were speed, feed, burnishing depth and number of passes. Surface integrity characteristics such as microhardness and residual stresses were investigated after diamond burnishing under cryogenic, MQL and dry environments. In cryogenic diamond burnishing, the surface integrity characteristics of 17-4 PH stainless steel has been significantly improved when compared to MQL and dry environments. Maximum microhardness of 395 HV, 369 HV, and 357 HV respectively was observed under cryogenic, MQL and dry environment. The maximum residual stress of -352 MPa, -282 MPa and -195 MPa respectively were recorded for cryogenic, MQL and dry environment. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Analysis of surface hardness and surface roughness in diamond burnishing of 17-4 PH stainless steel
    (IOP Publishing Ltd, 2019) Sachin, B.; Narendranath, S.; Dupadu, D.
    Burnishing is a chipless secondary finishing operation which yields excellent surface finish. The present work focuses on multi-response optimization of diamond burnishing on 17-4 precipitation hardenable stainless steel under dry environment by using Taguchi based grey relation analysis (TGRA) to simultaneously minimize surface roughness and maximize surface hardness. The effect of the process parameters such as burnishing speed, burnishing feed and burnishing force on performance characteristics like surface roughness and surface hardness were studied. Taguchi's L9 orthogonal array has been adopted for the experimental design. The optimal burnishing process parameters were found to be burnishing speed of 73 m/min, burnishing feed of 0.048 mm/rev and burnishing force of 150 N. Burnishing feed is the most significant parameter on burnishing performance characteristics. It has been proved that the performance characteristics of a diamond burnishing process have been improved by effective use of this technique. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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    Characterization and sliding wear behavior of CoMoCrSi+Flyash composite cladding processed by microwave irradiation
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2021) Prasad, C.; Shashank Lingappa, M.; Joladarashi, S.; Ramesh, M.R.; Sachin, B.
    The present work deals with the development of CoMoCrSi+Flyash composite cladding on AISI 410 steel substrate using a domestic microwave oven with cladding process parameters of frequency 2.45GHz, with the power of 900W and processing time is 1800s. The developed clad is characterized by metallographic and mechanical properties. Further, the substrate and cladding samples are tested for high-temperature sliding wear behaviour using a pin on disc apparatus. The clad specimen exhibits partial melting of particles and observed uniformity in thickness. X-Ray Diffraction analysis shows the presence of Cr3C2, Co3Ti, TiC, SiC, and Mo3Si hard phases that are formed during the cladding process, while excellent metallurgical bonding can be observed which provides improved hardness. The addition of flyash into the cobalt-base matrix enhanced high-temperature strength results in better wear resistance due to the formation of oxide layers. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Determining the solidification characteristics of Manganese bronze (MAB) alloy using computer-aided cooling curve analysis
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2022) Pranesh; Mohammed Anas, S.; Johnson, S.; Jose, R.; Sachin, B.; Cadambi, S.; Vijayan, V.; Karinka, S.
    Computer-aided cooling curve analysis (CACCA), known for its reliability and simplicity was used to study the material properties of manganese bronze (MAB) alloy. MAB alloy, due to its high strength and corrosion resistance, is a staple material for marine applications. Since the alloy is difficult to machine, non-heat treatable, and complex to fabricate, casting is the only cost-effective process of producing products of the material. As the literature is scant on the MAB's high-temperature properties, this study is aimed at determining the thermo-physical properties of the alloy required for casting simulation by carrying out Newtonian and Fourier analysis of the recorded temperature of the solidifying alloy from liquidus state. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Optimizing machining responses of homologous TiNiCu shape memory alloys using hybrid ANN-GA approach
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2022) Roy, A.; Sachin, B.; Raghavendra, T.; Rao, C.M.; Naik, G.M.; Soni, H.; Mashinini, P.M.; Narendranath, S.
    Fabrication of shape memory alloys using wire electro discharge machining (WEDM) has gained popularity over the last few years. Most widely used machining parameters of WEDM process are pulse on time (Øon), pulse off time (Øoff), servo voltage (σ) and wire feed (ω). WEDM responses like material removal rate (MR), surface roughness (SR), kerf width (KW) and recast layer thickness (LT) have been evaluated by researchers to determine machining characteristics and are also considered for this study. These machining responses determine the quality of machining and are majorly influenced by thermal conductivity and melting temperature of the WEDM workpiece. Actuation behavior of shape memory alloys is a function of phase transformation characteristics which in turn depends on elemental composition of the selected alloys. Therefore, dissimilar machining responses of Ti50Ni40Cu10 and Ti50Ni25Cu25 have been observed even though similar machining input values were used. This study utilized artificial neural network (ANN) mapping to establish WEDM response function – which was used as fitness function to perform multi objective optimization using genetic algorithm (GA). It was found that ANN successfully predicted machining responses of selected homologous alloys and GA helped in identifying suitable input parameter values to optimize machining responses. © 2022
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    Experimental evaluation of diamond burnishing for sustainable manufacturing
    (Institute of Physics Publishing helen.craven@iop.org, 2018) Sachin, B.; Narendranath, S.; Dupadu, D.
    Diamond burnishing is one of the most popular surface finishing technique used to achieve an excellent surface finish. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of process parameters in diamond burnishing of 17-4 PH stainless steel (PH SS) under cryogenic environment. The requirement of a sustainable environment for various machining processes urged to explore the importance of cryogenic burnishing over other cooling techniques. Surface modification was achieved by the application of liquid nitrogen (LN2) during diamond burnishing. The process parameters considered to reduce the surface roughness (Ra) and increase the surface hardness (H) are burnishing speed, burnishing feed and burnishing force. The diamond burnishing experiments were conducted based on the L9 orthogonal array. The significant parameters and the optimal level of each parameters were determined by using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and main effect plots respectively. Multi-response optimization has been carried out for cryogenic diamond burnishing of 17-4 PH stainless steel by using Taguchi's grey relation analysis (TGRA). From the TGRA, it was observed that at burnishing speed 73 m min-1, burnishing feed 0.048 mm/rev and burnishing force 150 N, improved diamond burnishing performance characteristics were obtained. An improvement in grey relation grade (GRG) was found to be 38.47%. Cryogenic diamond burnishing has led to modifications in the microstructure and also an improvement in the subsurface hardness of the material. © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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    Sustainable diamond burnishing of 17-4 PH stainless steel for enhanced surface integrity and product performance by using a novel modified tool
    (Institute of Physics Publishing helen.craven@iop.org, 2019) Sachin, B.; Narendranath, S.; Dupadu, D.
    Amajor sustainability concern of manufacturing industries is indiscriminate use of lubrication, energy consumption, and allied cost. To avoid such kind of situation and to improve the product quality, sustainable manufacturing concept has been widely used. One of the popular technique is the use of Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) as a working fluid to improve the product performance. Diamond burnishing underMQLenvironment is an exceptional technique to obtain the improved surface integrity of the material without affecting operator health and environmental aspects. In this work, the impact of control factors on the surface integrity characteristics namely surface roughness, surface topography, surface hardness, surface morphology, residual stress and subsurface hardness of 17-4PHstainless steel have been studied underMQLenvironment by using a novel modified tool. It was ensured that minimum surface roughness of 0.05 ?mand maximum surface hardness of 405HV had been achieved. Improved surface finish and surface hardness were obtained for a diamond sphere radius of 4mmand 3mmrespectively under optimal diamond burnishing conditions. The obtained investigational results confirm that a novel modified tool was successfully implemented to enhance the surface integrity characteristics under theMQLenvironment. © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd.
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    Effect of working parameters on the surface integrity in cryogenic diamond burnishing of 17-4 PH stainless steel with a novel diamond burnishing tool
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2019) Sachin, B.; S, N.; Dupadu, D.
    The productivity of the components is adversely affected by the poor surface integrity characteristics as a consequence of the generation of high temperature in the burnishing zone. The abundant use of conventional lubricants causes environmental pollution and health problems. To overcome these issues, cryogenic cooling has been used across the world to reduce the temperature generated in the burnishing zone. It is well known that most of the accidents which involve aero engines have revealed that the reason for this may be due to the failure of the first stage of compressor blades. Hence aerospace material, 17-4 precipitation hardenable (PH) stainless steel can be used in aero engines to minimize the failure occurring due to foreign object damage. In the present study, the effect of cryogenic diamond burnishing on the surface integrity characteristics such as surface roughness, surface hardness, surface morphology, surface topography, subsurface microhardness, and residual stress of 17-4 pH stainless steel have been investigated with a novel diamond burnishing tool and also it has been related to dry and minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) environments. From the experimental results of diamond burnishing process, surface roughness was observed to be reduced by 33%–50%, 34%–51% and 25%–40% in the cryogenic cooling environment in contrast with MQL and dry environments. Similarly, the surface hardness improvement in a cryogenic cooling environment was found to be 5%–7%, 6%–10%, and 6%–9%, in comparison with MQL and dry environments respectively. © 2019 The Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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    Selection of optimal process parameters in sustainable diamond burnishing of 17-4 PH stainless steel
    (Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2019) Sachin, B.; Narendranath, S.; Dupadu, D.
    Secondary finishing operations are the primary requirement of the manufacturing industries to achieve dimensional tolerance of the components. Burnishing is essentially a surface finishing operation usually performed after machining to achieve superfinishing. Diamond burnishing is one of the finest finishing technologies which has been conducted on any surface to attain mirror surface finish. The present work focuses on the development of a correlation model between the process parameters and the output responses while burnishing of 17-4 precipitation hardenable stainless steel using response surface methodology. A novel diamond burnishing tool has been used to analyze the influence of process parameters on output responses in the MQL environment. The control factors considered for the present study include burnishing speed, burnishing feed and burnishing force, and the corresponding output responses considered were surface roughness and surface hardness. The influence of process parameters on output responses has been determined by analysis of variance. Optimization was performed by a multi-objective genetic algorithm. The proposed methodology has been validated by performing experiments at the optimal process parameters, and the achieved results indicate the effectiveness of the diamond burnishing process. © 2019, The Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering.
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    Enhancement of surface integrity by cryogenic diamond burnishing toward the improved functional performance of the components
    (Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2019) Sachin, B.; Narendranath, S.; Dupadu, D.
    17-4 precipitation-hardenable (PH) stainless steel is one of the widely used materials in various applications of engineering practices owing to their excellent corrosion resistance and high strength. The components such as automotive body, aerospace compressor blades, turbine blades and molds demand higher load carrying capacity and improved fatigue strength, which is possible to achieve by surface severe plastic deformation. Diamond burnishing process is an appropriate technique to produce such components which improves the surface integrity characteristics of the material. This article presents a comprehensive examination of the surface integrity of cryogenic diamond burnished 17-4 PH stainless steel using a novel diamond burnishing tool. The impact of diamond burnishing control factors on subsurface microhardness, surface roughness, surface hardness, surface topography, residual stress and surface morphology has been analyzed. The optimal control factor setting ensures the least surface roughness of 0.03 µm by the application of one factor at a time approach. Cryogenic diamond burnished surface achieves the exceptional surface finish and the surface hardness in tool-tip of 8 mm and 6 mm, respectively. The maximum surface hardness of 413 HV was attained using 6-mm tool-tip diameter. The subsurface microhardness improvement of 2% and 4% has been observed while using a tool-tip diameter of 6 mm in contrast to 8 mm and 10 mm. Compressive residual stresses have been generated at the top surface layer of the specimen. The attained experimental results prove that cryogenic diamond burnishing can be successfully applied to 17-4 PH stainless steel to enhance its surface integrity characteristics. © 2019, The Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering.