Practical design and performance of the stressed-lap polishing tool
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We present an overview of the engineering design and empirical performance of four stressed-lap polishing tools developed at the University of Arizona. Descriptions of the electromechanical actuators, servo systems, computer interfacing, and attachment of the lap to the polishing machine are provided. The empirical performance of a representative tool is discussed in terms of accuracy, repeatability, and hysteresis. Finally, we estimate the statistical likelihood of aluminum lap-plate failure through a metal-fatigue analysis for a worst-case stress-cycling situation.
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Various tool types have been developed including multilayer elastic tools, viscoelastic tools (like Newtonian fluids), semi-flexible tools (e.g. thin metal layer), viscoplastic (pitch) tools, and mechanically driven tools.
“Various tool types have been developed including multilayer elastic tools, viscoelastic tools (like Newtonian fluids) [18, 30, 31], semi-flexible tools (e.g. thin metal layer) [17, 19, 20], viscoplastic (pitch) tools [19, 27, 28, 32], and mechanically driven tools[33].”
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Suratwala, T., Tham, G., Steele, R., Wong, L., Menapace, J., Ray, N., & Bauman, B. (2023) · Applied Optics · doi:10.1364/ao.482739 · Cited by 11 · see citing works
- Authors
- West, S. C., Martin, H. M., Nagel, R. H., Young, R. S., Davison, W. B., Trebisky, T. J., DeRigne, S. T., & Hille, B. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- Venue
- Applied Optics
- Publisher
- Optica Publishing Group
- Published
- 1994-12-01
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 34
- Pages
- 8094
- ISSN
- 0003-6935 (ISSN-L)
- 1539-4522
- OpenAlex
- W1985374573
- Cited by
- 66
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 3
- FWCI
- 0.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Optics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Surface Polishing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced optical system design
- Keywords
- electromechanical actuators, servo system, computer interfacing, repeatability, hysteresis, metal fatigue, aluminum, stress cycling
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