TY - JOUR
AU1 - Jackson, M. J.
AB - AbstractGrinding wheel wear is a significant problem when the wheel has to be continuously dressed in order to maintain high productivity and high-quality ground surfaces, especially during the manufacture of camshafts and crankshafts for certain automotive applications. This paper describes the use of X-rays to specifically engineer bonding systems for conventional abrasive grinding wheels so that the wheel wears considerably less during cylindrical grinding operations including the peculiarities associated with camshaft and crankshaft grinding. A significant factor associated with the wear of grinding wheels is the amount of free quartz that remains in heat-treated vitrified bonding systems. A number of quartz dissolution models have been developed that show how grinding wheel manufacturers can reduce the occurrence of bond fracture during grinding, and these models are compared with each other in this paper using X-ray diffraction techniques. This paper also explains how the use of X-rays can be used to develop the next generation of vitrified bonding systems that will allow grinding wheels to be cleaned and dressed with a laser without damaging the structure of the grinding wheel. A new method of dressing is reported that promotes preferred orientation of aluminium oxide abrasive grains that allows grinding wheels to operate in the roughing, finishing, and superfinishing grinding regimes.
TI - Tribological design of grinding wheels using X-ray diffraction techniques
JF - Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part J: Journal of Engineering Tribology
DO - 10.1243/13506501JET65
DA - 2006-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/tribological-design-of-grinding-wheels-using-x-ray-diffraction-De3YLb0sL4
SP - 1
EP - 17
VL - 220
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -