Automation of grinding of metalcastings is desirable for many reasons. The major reasons are dangerous working conditions, low productivity, and inconsistency in human operations. As an approach to the automating grinding process, a gantrydriven grinding machine is proposed to manipulate an industrial hand grinder and control the grinding force applied to the work piece. To increase the materia...

Off-round grinding performed on CNC cylindrical grinding is a relatively new process. This paper takes a systems approach and discusses the various inputs and outputs and highlights the potential problems that production engineers face in implementing this new process. The effect of the inputs to the off-round grinding process such as the grinding machine, wheel, grinding fluid and the workpiec...

in this project creep feed grinding process of gas turbine blade root is investigated with the aim of consistant and controlable production. inthispaper, effectiveness of creep feed grinding process prometers suchas wheel speed, workpiece speed, grind depth and dresser speed are investigated. this investigation include their interaction on thelob of gas torbine blade root, as amajor cause of a ...

Background: The austenitic stainless steel 304L is widely used as a structural material for which the finished surface has significant effect on the service performance. A study of the grinding process with regard to the quality of the ground surfaces is therefore interesting from the point of view of both industrial application and scientific research. Method: This work investigates the influe...

In modern competitive manufacturing industry, machining processes are expected to deliver products with high accuracy and assured surface integrity, using shorter cycle times with reduced operator intervention and increased flexibility. To meet such demands, the trend towards increased use of machine intelligence in machining systems and operations is clear and unlikely to be revised. This pape...

The grinding force is a key parameter in the grinding process, which is closely associated with the grinding mechanism of engineering ceramics, microstructure and properties of ceramic materials, and the selection of grinding parameters. Meanwhile, it is also a key indicator to assess the grindability of a material. The grinding force is a crucial parameter to reflect the grinding process, whic...

This paper presents a detailed manufacturing model that can be used for grinding a ball-end mill using 5-axis CNC (computer numerical controlled) grinding machine. The profile of the helical groove can be calculated exactly using the given wheel profile and relative movements between the workpiece and the grinding wheel. The proposed model is related to some analytical, differential geometry an...

Forces generated during precision wafer grinding are small and present challenges for accurate and reliable process monitoring. In this work, these challenges are met by incorporating noncontact displacement sensors into an aerostatic spindle that is calibrated to measure grinding forces from the relative motion between the spindle rotor and stator. This arrangement allows the calculation of gr...

Thermal errors and force-induced errors are two most significant sources of the NC grinding machine inaccuracy. And error compensation technique is an effective way to improve the manufacturing accuracy of the NC machine tools. Effective compensation relies on an accurate error model that can predict the errors exactly during machining. In this paper, a PSO–BP neural network modeling technique ...

The paper presents the results of contact and non-contact measurements of external profiles of selected grinding pins. The measurements were conducted in order to choose the appropriate measuring technique in the case of the considered measurement task. In the case of contact measurements the coordinate measuring machine ACCURA II was applied. The used coordinate measuring machine was equipped ...