The Correlation between Surface Integrity and Operating Behaviour of Slide Burnished Components—A Review and Prospects

Abstract

This review paper analyses and summarises the results found while studying the slide burnishing (SB) of metal components refracted through a prism during the surface engineering (SE) process, over the period of January 2019 to January 2023. According to the classification of SE processes defined in the article, SB as a technique in the scope of SE that belongs to the group of static surface cold working (SCW) processes, based on severe surface plastic deformation, and is realised under the condition of sliding friction contact with the treated surface. When the deforming element is natural or artificial diamond, SB is known as diamond burnishing (DB). SB is especially suited for axes, shafts, and holes with circular cross-sections but can also be implemented on flat-face and complex surfaces. SB is eco-friendly and a very economical method for producing mirror-like surface finishes on a wide range of ferrous and non-ferrous machined surfaces, but it can also be realised as a hardening and mixed process with the aim of significantly increasing the fatigue strength and wear resistance of the treated components. Based on a literature review of the results of the theory and practice of SB, an analysis on different criteria was carried out, and graphic visualizations of the statistical results were made. Additionally, the results were analysed using the integrated approach of SE to study the correlations between the apexes of the triangle: SB—surface integrity (SI)—operational behaviour (OB). On this basis, relevant conclusions were drawn, and promising directions for future investigations of SB were outlined.

Finite Element Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Nanostructuring Burnishing AISI 52100 Steel Using an Inclined Flat Cylindrical Tool

“…Thus, the literature review in the field of experimental studies of the burnishing process indicates that most of the works are devoted to using a traditional spherical shape of a diamond processing tool (85% according to the review [8]). In the case of a cylindrical tool shape, it is usually a long cylinder, the axis of which is parallel to the surface to be processed.…”

“…In the case of a cylindrical tool shape, it is usually a long cylinder, the axis of which is parallel to the surface to be processed. Steels are the most commonly used material (64% according to the survey [8]), which is subjected to sliding burnishing. Friction conditions are not reported in more than 1 / 3 articles, and only 9% of studies are devoted to dry friction conditions [8].…”

“…Steels are the most commonly used material (64% according to the survey [8]), which is subjected to sliding burnishing. Friction conditions are not reported in more than 1 / 3 articles, and only 9% of studies are devoted to dry friction conditions [8]. Therefore, the use of a disc-shaped tool made of cubic boron nitride with an axis tilt to the treated surface is innovative and little studied.…”

“…Summing up the review in the field of numerical modeling of the burnishing process and related phenomena, it should be concluded that such studies are much less common than experimental ones (12% and 75%, respectively, according to [8]), the studies with a combined approach (numerical-experimental) are also rare. The main object of modeling is residual stresses and roughness.…”

Improvement in Fatigue Strength of Chromium–Nickel Austenitic Stainless Steels via Diamond Burnishing and Subsequent Low-Temperature Gas Nitriding

“…In recent years, many studies have been devoted to improving the surface integrity (SI) and operating behavior (wear, corrosion and fatigue resistance) of CNASS components by means of static SCW methods: ball burnishing [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21], roller burnishing [6,[22][23][24][25] and DB [2][3][4][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. There are relatively few studies devoted to improvement in the fatigue behavior of CNASS components by means of SCW [2][3][4][8][9][10][11][12][13]18,23].…”