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Modeling and experimental analysis of wheel-work interface in the cylindrical plunge grinding process

International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2014

This paper presents a study of grinding wheel-workpiece interference in external cylindrical plunge grinding processes. This is to study the effect of workpiece surface memory on the workpiece roundness error after grinding. The study has been carried out theoretically on a model simulating cylindrical grinding process. The model takes contact stiffness, grinding wheel and workpiece wear into consideration. The proposed model was sued to predict the normal grinding forces in cylindrical grinding as a function of the previous height and number of waves of the initial profile.The new model has been validated by conducting experiments on a cylindrical grinding machine. Results indicate that the proposed model shows a good agreement with the experimental data obtained.The results of experiments indicate that the proposed modeling method is both feasible and reliable. The results showed that the theoretical model was effective studying the output of cylindrical grinding process. Normal g...

Modeling of Vibration Condition in Flat Surface Grinding Process

Shock and Vibration

This article presents a new model of the flat surface grinding process vibration conditions. The study establishes a particular analysis and comparison between the influence of the normal and tangential components of grinding forces on the vibration conditions of the process. The bifurcation diagrams are used to examine the process vibration conditions for the depth of cut and the cutting speed as the bifurcation parameters. The workpiece is considered to be rigid and the grinding wheel is modeled as a nonlinear two-degrees-of-freedom mass-spring-damper oscillator. To verify the model, experiments are carried out to analyze in the frequency domain the normal and tangential dynamic grinding forces. The results of the process model simulation show that the vibration condition is more affected by the normal component than the tangential component of the grinding forces. The results of the tested experimental conditions indicate that the cutting speed of 30 m/s can permit grinding at th...

Detailed modeling of cutting forces in grinding process considering variable stages of grain-workpiece micro interactions

A B S T R A C T Grinding forces are a key parameter in the grinding process, most previous studies on grinding forces, however, (i) were regardless of grain-workpiece micro interaction statuses and (ii) could only predict average/maximal grinding forces based on average/maximal cutting depths or chip thicknesses. In this study, a novel detailed modeling methodology of grinding forces has been analytically established, experimentally validated and utilised to study a specific issue that previous methods can not address. Based on the proposed method, grinding forces with detailed information (e.g. three components including rubbing, plowing and cutting forces) could be accurately predicted. Except for grinding forces, the proposed methodology also enable the availability of other grinding process details at the grain scale (e.g. the ratios of grains that are experiencing rubbing, plowing and cutting stages to the total engaging grain number). Validation experiment results have proved that, the proposed method could, to a large extent, describe the realistic grinding forces. Based on the proposed method, the effects of grinding conditions (including depths of cut, wheel speeds, workpiece feed speeds and grinding wheel abrasive sizes) on each component of grinding forces (rubbing, plowing, and cutting forces) have been analyzed. Some new findings, which could enhance the existing understandings of grinding forces and guide industrial manufacture, have been gained. The proposed method therefore is anticipated to be not only meaningful to provide a new way to model grinding forces in detail, but also promising to study other grinding issues (e.g. grinding heat, machined surface topography, grinding chatter), especially under the trend of miniaturization and microfabrication where grinding details at the grain scale are highly needed to optimise the micro grinding tool efficiency and micro-grinding accuracy.