Abstract
This study is dealt with the new method to fabricate a mat-surface by using fixed abrasive tool. Mat-surface is generally fabricated by using chemical or electrical etching, or loose abrasive lapping, or shot blasting. These conventional processes require pre-masking of work-piece and relatively large scale back-up facility. At first, the mechanism to fabricate mat-surface is discussed in this paper. After discussion, paying our attention on the relative motion control between tool and work, the new method to produce mat-surface by using fixed abrasive tool is proposed. New designed fixed-abrasive-tool is utilized for various basic experiments of mat-surface fabrication, the results of the experiments clarifies that it is feasible not only to fabricate mat-surface without masking locally, but also to provide fish-scale-like surface-structure by controlling relative motion of the tool and the work-piece.
