Experimental analysis of magneto rheological abrasive flow finishing process on AISI stainless steel 316L

ABSTRACTIn this experimental study, the surface quality of AISI stainless steel 316L was improved to a nano-level surface finish by means of magneto rheological abrasive flow finishing process. In order to determine the effect of input process parameters toward the responses such as final surface roughness (SR) and material removal rate (MRR), response surface model was built up and optimal parameters were found using the desirability analysis. Based on the experimental design, 20 experiments were conducted and the minimum SR and maximum MRR obtained are 53.46 nm and 1.757 mg/s, respectively, and their optimized values are 53.10 nm and 1.817 mg/s. By using the regression equations obtained for SR and MRR as input, an evolutionary optimization algorithm called as firefly algorithm has been utilized where the required surface finish was constrained as ≤60 nm and the optimized results were confirmed by means of validation experiments. The obtained results depict that the voltage to the electromagnet plays a ...