Effect of Irradiation Parameters on Morphology of Polishing DF2 (AISI-O1) Surface by NdYAG Laser.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Research Letters in Materials Science Volume 2007, Article ID 51316, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2007/51316 Research Letter Effect of Irradiation Parameters on Morphology of Polishing DF2 (AISI-O1) Surface by Nd:YAG Laser Wei Guo Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Correspondence should be addressed to Wei Guo, guoweichinese@ Received 26 July 2007; Accepted 24 September 2007 Recommended by Jainagesh A. Sekhar Pulse Nd:YAG laser was used to polish DF2 cold work steel. Influence of irradiation parameters on the 3D surface morphology was studied by 3D profilometer, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and atomic force microscope (AFM). Results among the tests showed when DF2 specimens were irradiated with parameters of (i) laser input energy P = 1 J, (ii) pulse feedrate = 300 mm/min, (iii) pulse duration (PD) = 3 milliseconds, and (iv) pulse frequency f = 20 ∼ 25 Hz; laser polishing of DF2 cold work steel seemed to be successful. Copyright © 2007 Wei Guo. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. INTRODUCTION 2.2. Experimental procedures It has been reported that the polishing time of a mould can The surface roughness of machined materials was 0.2, 0.4, represent up to 37% of the total production time of the entire 0.6 μm. The initial morphology of 0.4 μm and its corre- mould [ 1–3]. Improvement in the finishing or polishing of sponding SEM surface image were shown in Figures