Achmad Arifin, Aulia Majid, Yu-Ren Wu, Zhen-Yu Huang
Machining vibration remains a critical barrier to achieving dimensional precision and surface integrity in modern manufacturing. This study presents and validates an experimental damping-particle workpiece holder designed to attenuate vibrations during CNC milling. The research method involved constructing a six-chambered workpiece holder and comparing a solid-equivalent-mass control group with particle-damped systems under varying cutting conditions, filling ratios, and particle diameters. The results confirmed that the damping-particle workpiece holder can effectively reduce machining vibration by 12.8% under standard cutting conditions. The investigation’s results for the damping particle behavior revealed that attenuation performance improved significantly under high cutting parameters. Subsequently, the filling ratio proved to be the dominant variable, exerting a greater influence on both vibration suppression and surface roughness than particle diameter. The combination of an 80% filling ratio and a 5 mm particle diameter is recommended for the proposed damping-particle workpiece holder in the proposed construction model to mitigate CNC milling vibrations. These findings provide an essential consideration for supporting particle damping as a viable technique for future enhanced construction design of damping-particle workpiece holders to improve dynamic stability and finish quality in milling processes. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2026.
Department of Mechanical Engineering Education, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 01, Colombo Rd, Karangmalang, Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia; Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Central University, 300, Zhongda Rd., Zhongli District, Taoyuan City, 320317, Taiwan; Center for Eco-material Engineering and Manufacturing, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, 01, Colombo Rd, Karangmalang, Sleman, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia
