Grinding is one of the most widely employed manufacturing processes when accurate finishing of workpieces is required. In order to investigate the effect of processing parameters to grinding performance, soft computing methods constitute a reliable and economical alternative to other simulation methods, such as the Finite Element Method (FEM). In this study, a comparison between classical Artif...

This paper revisited some wheel–workpiece interaction problems in surface grinding including the profile of heat flux and the variation of the wheel’s elastic modulus. A method of using an optical microscope and a CCD camera was applied to capture the depth and width of the heated zone, the details of the temperature field and the stability of the heat flux. It was found that the heat flux in u...

This study investigates the influence of some chemical additives such as methanol, ethanol, sodium oleat, chloroform and sodium hexametaphosphate (SHMP) on the dry fine grinding of calcite (X50= 33 µm) using a stirred media mill. The experiments were carried out by a batch operation, and the change in colour properties (Ry, whiteness and yellowness) of calcite powder. The results showed that th...

Grinding and polishing are widely used surface finish operations for a variety of precision and delicate component of ceramics, such as silicon wafers and gauges. However, the formation and evaluation of the subsurface damage induced have not been investigated, although subsurface damage is extremely important to the quality of the products. Grinding and polishing are usually carried out by a s...

The aim of this study was to determine a suitable amount of grinding of a flexural test specimen for clinical evaluation of dental ceramics. Three dental ceramics (Crys-Cera, OCC and IPS Empress Cosmo) were selected. Five types of bar-shaped patterns were prepared for a three-point bending test, and four types of disk-shaped patterns for a biaxial flexural test. Ceramic specimens were fabricate...

-A vermiculite (Libby, Montana) sample obtained from the Zonolite company contained mostly coarse-grained separates with only 8.7 per cent clay. The 2-50 #m fraction was used for particle-size reduction studies by wet and dry grinding, and size-fractionated into < 2, 2-5, 5-20 and 20--50 #m sizes. About 18 per cent of the sample was attrited to clay after 64 hr of wet grinding, but as much as 5...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the combined effect of thermal and mechanical plastic deformation on residual stresses in ground components. The interactions between a grinding wheel and a workpiece, including both thermal and mechanical interaction, are simulated by triangular surface loads moving with the table speed of grinding. Cooling is modelled by a uniform convection over the...

Industrial robots are introduced to belt grinding processes of free-formed surface with elastic wheel nowadays in order to obtain high quality product and high efficiency. However, it is a laborious task to plan grinding paths and write programs for the robot. To release people from it partially, it is necessary to simulate the belt grinding processes which are useful for path generating and dy...

In the current work we present approach to study the mechanism of the cutting of abrasive grains in the grinding wheel using finite element analysis (FEA). The simulation process is done by separating two abrasive grains from the grinding wheels and the microprocess of material removal in the case of surface grinding is simulated. Modelling was done on the workpiece steel S-7 and material grain...

THE ATTRITIOUS AND FRACTURE WEAR OF GRINDING WHEELS by Stephen Malkin Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering February 1968, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Science A detailed investigation is made of the nature and extent-of grinding wheel wear in finish grinding. The wear is broadly classified as either attritious or fracture wear. Attritio...