MECHANOCHEMICAL SUPERFINISHING OF OPTICAL GLASS – SCRATCHLESS SURFACE FINISHING PROCESS –
MECHANOCHEMICAL SUPERFINISHING OF OPTICAL GLASS – SCRATCHLESS SURFACE FINISHING PROCESS –
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光学玻璃的机械化学超精加工 – 无划痕表面精加工工艺 –
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2009
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S. Shimada
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N. Furushiro;M. Higuchi;Tomomi Yamaguchi;N. Matsumori;H. Ogura;S. Shimada
This paper describes a newly developed mechanochemical superabrasive stone containing CeO2 abrasive. The effect of CeO2 abrasive on their performances was evaluated through the superfinishing of optical glass. It was found that soft CeO2 abrasive rubs the surface of optical glass producing smooth surfaces with fewer scratches than diamond abrasive. The addition of CeO2 abrasive improves the surface integrity of optical glass because it reduces production of scratches by diamond abrasive. INTRODUCTION Abrasion machining using bonded abrasives provides rapid material removal and high dimensional accuracy. In addition, using mechanochemical stones [1], which have interfacial reaction with works, they provide better surfaces. On the basis of this way of thinking, some mechanochemical stones, containing cerium oxide, CeO2, have been developed [2, 3]. Authors have developed new vitrified-bonded superabrasive stones, which contains the abrasive CeO2, and have investigated the chemical reaction between CeO2 and Fe theoretically and experimentally [4]. The abrasive CeO2 is softer than the optical glass but reacts chemically with them [5]. Using these stones, it was possible to obtain a smooth surface with fewer scratches, which was not possible when using conventional diamond stones. In this paper, the performances of CeO2 stone, diamond stone, and diamond stone containing CeO2 abrasive are evaluated and compared through superfinishing experiments of optical glass. PERFORMANCE OF MECHANOCHEMICAL SUPERABRASIVE STONE Test Stones A Mechanochemical superabrasive stone was developed for superfinishing of optical glass. It consists of CeO2 20000-grit size with vitrified bond. In this paper, this is referred to as CeO2 stone. In addition, a mechanochemical superabrasive stone, which consists of CeO2 of 20000-grit size and synthetic diamond of 4000grit size with vitrified bond, was developed. This is referred to as SD/CeO2 stone in this paper. A conventional vitrified SD stone was also prepared to investigate the effect of the CeO2 abrasive on the performance of stone. Experimental Procedures All tests were performed on a centerless flat surface lapping machine. The machine is shown in Fig. 1. The workpiece was face-finished by a rotating cup-shaped superabrasive stone with oscillating motion. Table 1 tabulates the superfinishing conditions that were used. FIGURE 1. Centerless flat superfinishing using a straight cup-shaped abrasive stone. Results and Discussions CeO2 Stone If the CeO2 abrasive actually reacts on an optical glass workpiece in the superfinishing process, the material removal rate of the stone containing the CeO2 abrasive will obey the Arrhenius equation, because of the temperature dependence of chemical reaction rate. ⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛− = RT E A k exp (1) where k is the reaction rate, A is the preexponential factor, E is the activation energy, R is the gas constant, and T is the absolute temperature. The removal rate of the CeO2 stone was analyzed based on this empirical law for coolant temperature from 283 K to 313 K. Fig. 2 shows the Arrhenius plot of the logarithm of the removal rate against the reciprocal of the FIGURE 2. Dependence of removal rate on temperature of the superfinishing fluid. FIGURE 3. Dependence of finishing ratio on temperature of the superfinishing fluid. TABLE 1. Superfinishing conditions. FIGURE 4. Dependence of roughness values on temperature of the superfinishing fluid. temperature. The removal rate of the CeO2 stone increase almost linearly as the temperature increases. Calculating the apparent activation energy from the slope of the straight line gives 10.9 kJ/mol for the CeO2 stone. Fig. 3 shows the finishing ratio against the temperature. The finishing ratio of the CeO2 stone increase almost linearly as the temperature increases because of the increase of the removal volume and the decrease of the stone wear volume. These results indicate that the CeO2 abrasive reacts on an optical glass workpiece in the superfinishing process. Fig. 4 shows the roughness values, Ra, of the surfaces generated by the CeO2 stone. The CeO2 abrasive hardly scratches the surface of optical glass but only rubs it, because of its friability. Nevertheless, the CeO2 stone effectively generates a smoother surface. Fig. 5 shows the superfinished surface of BK7 with the CeO2 stone. The surface has fewer scratches than conventional diamond stones. In some case, however, few scratches, which were generated with diamond abrasive during prefinishing process, remains after superfinishing. Temperature (K) S ur fa ce ro ug ne ss (n m R a) 280 290 310 320 300 1 10 5 Superfinishing pressure Stone speed Workpiece speed Frequency of oscillation Amplitude Superfinishing fluid Superfinishing fluid temperature Superfinishing time Workpiece material 0.17 MPa 42 m/min 79 m/min 6.7 Hz 0.5 mm Dilute solution of rust inhibitor in water, Concentration=1%