Sample Processing Update: Fitting a Round Part into a Square Blast Pattern

Author:  Herb Tobben, Manager
Source:  ABC, Vol 5/ No4, Fall 2000
Doc ID:  2000048
Year of Publication:  2000
Abstract:  
Sample Processing Laboratory Zero Products Div., Clemco Industries Corp. Reprinted with permission Question: An aerospace company asked for ZERO's help in creating a relief pattern on the surface of a cermaic plate. THe pattern of evenly spaced bumps resembles an inverted golf ball skin. Most manufacturers would turn to machining to produce this type of pattern, but the high-tech ceramic plates proved too brittle for conventional CNC machining process