The invention relates to a surface strengthening treatment method for a
metal material through
coupling an electroplastic effect and ultrasonic rolling. The surface strengthening treatment method comprises the steps of (1) clamping a
metal workpiece on a supporting device; and (2) applying a
pulse current to a
processing region of the
metal workpiece, and properly reducing the plastic transformation resistance of the
surface layer of the
processing region by virtue of an electroplastic effect, a
skin effect and a
thermal effect of the
pulse current; and meanwhile driving the metal workpiece to rotate by the supporting device, and carrying out ultrasonic
impact rolling on the
surface layer of the
processing region by using an ultrasonic rolling device moving along the axial direction of the metal workpiece to ensure that the
surface layer of the processing region generates violent plastic deformation to increase the
dislocation density and refine grains to further form a strengthened layer. According to the method, the strengthening treatment on the surface of the metal material is realized by combining the electroplastic effect, ultrasonic
impact and a rolling effect; and compared with a single ultrasonic rolling method, the method has the advantages that the acting thickness of the strengthened layer is further increased, and the extreme surface
hardness of the workpiece is further improved. When the method is used for surface strengthening treatment on intractable metal materials with high
hardness or seriously-hardened intractable metal materials, the quality of the strengthened layer can be remarkably improved, the processing efficiency can be greatly increased, and the production cost can be reduced.