Response Ant Colony Optimization of End Milling Surface Roughness 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2010, 10, 2054-2063; doi:10.3390/s100302054 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Response Ant Colony Optimization of End Milling Surface Roughness K. Kadirgama 1,*, M. M. Noor 1 and Ahmed N. Abd Alla 2 1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan, 26300 UMP, Malaysia; E-Mail: muhamad@.my 2 Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang, Kuantan 26300 UMP, Malaysia; E-Mail: ahmed@.my * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: kumaran@.my; Tel.: +6-017-936-6640; Fax: +6-954-2377. Received: 24 January 2009; in revised form: 8 March 2010 / Accepted: 14 March 2010 / Published: 15 March 2010 Abstract: Metal cutting processes are important due to increased consumer demands for quality metal cutting related products (more precise tolerances and better product surface roughness) that has driven the metal cutting industry to continuously improve quality control of metal cutting processes. This paper presents optimum surface roughness by using milling mould aluminium alloys (AA6061-T6) with Response Ant Colony Optimization (RACO). The approach is based on Response Surface Method (RSM) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO). The main objectives to find the optimized parameters and the most dominant variables (cutting speed, feedrate, axial depth and radial depth). The first order model indicates that the feedrate is the most significant factor affecting surface roughness. Keywords: response surface method; ant colony; aluminium alloys; surface roughness 1. Introduction Roughness plays an important role in determining how a real object will interact with its environment. Rough surfaces usually wear more quickly and have higher friction coefficients than smooth surfaces. Roughness is performance of a mechanical component, since irregularities in the surface may form nucleation softe