Grinding operation is a finishing process often employed when high precision and narrow geometric tolerances are required.These requirements can be achieved only if cutting conditions are properly selected,especially ...Grinding operation is a finishing process often employed when high precision and narrow geometric tolerances are required.These requirements can be achieved only if cutting conditions are properly selected,especially the cooling-lubrication technique.In general,grinding is performed in presence of cutting fluid,however,due to the environmental impacts and costs of the conventional coolant delivery technique(flow rates from 4 L/min to 300 L/min),alternative cooling-lubrication techniques have been developed on restriction of the coolants use.Among the several techniques,MQL(minimum quantity of lubricant)technique has received special attention from machining users because of its advantages in terms of surface quality of workpiece and drastic reduction in use of coolant.In this context,this paper evaluated the performance of the MQL technique as compared to the flood coolant in peripheral surface grinding of AISI P100(VP100)steel with conventional aluminum oxide grinding wheel in relation to the surface roughness(Ra and Rz).Input parameters tested were equivalent chip thickness(0.09μm,0.18μm and 0.27μm)and flow rate of the cutting fluid(60 mL/h,150 mL/h and 240 mL/h)of the MQL system.Results showed that the grinding with MQL technique provided lower surface roughness values compared to conventional flood cooling,especially when machining under the intermediary cutting conditions.Also,with exception of heq of 0.09 m,the MQL technique resulted in lower values of Rz parameter as compared to the conventional coolant technique,regardless of the flow rate tested.展开更多
The ultrahigh strength 300M steel has been commonly used in the manufacture of aircraft landing gear and rotor shaft parts due to its excellent mechanical properties.Creep feed grinding is one of the essential operati...The ultrahigh strength 300M steel has been commonly used in the manufacture of aircraft landing gear and rotor shaft parts due to its excellent mechanical properties.Creep feed grinding is one of the essential operations during the whole component manufacturing processes.In this work,the feasibility of creep feed grinding of 300M steel by using the hard zirconium corundum wheel was theoretically and experimentally evaluated.A variety of responses including grinding forces,temperature fields,specific grinding energy,surface integrity and chip modes were carefully recorded.Besides,the mechanism of ground surface profile generation and the spatial frequency spectrum of the surface profile were tentatively analyzed.It was found that the wheel speed has a relative influence on the grinding forces and temperatures of which the work hardening effect dominates the material removal with lower wheel speed while the thermal softening becomes crucial as the wheel speed exceeds the critical value for the studied 300M steel.Furthermore,a scattered spatial frequency spectrum for the generated surface profile was noticed with lower wheel speed while the spectrum gathers towards the lower frequency values with higher amplitude as the wheel speed increases.The shearing chip and flowing chip dominates the main chip type,indicating the excellent abrasive sharpness during the grinding process.In general,the used zirconium corundum wheel presents feasibility for the creep feed grinding of 300M steel because of the high material removal rate,absence of surface burn,low wheel wear and higher compressive residual stresses.展开更多
基金This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil(CAPES)—Finance Code 001The authors are grateful too to the FAPEMIG and the Post Graduate Program of Mechanical Engineering of UFU for financial support.Authors are also grateful to Villares Metals(Brazil)+1 种基金Saint Gobain Abrasives for supporting this work with workpiece material and wheel.One of authors thanks CNPq(PQ 2013 Project No.308067/2013)for the research scholarship and FAPEMIG project process No.PPM-00265-13 for financial supportThe authors are also thankful to ABCM for transferring the copyright of the article.
文摘Grinding operation is a finishing process often employed when high precision and narrow geometric tolerances are required.These requirements can be achieved only if cutting conditions are properly selected,especially the cooling-lubrication technique.In general,grinding is performed in presence of cutting fluid,however,due to the environmental impacts and costs of the conventional coolant delivery technique(flow rates from 4 L/min to 300 L/min),alternative cooling-lubrication techniques have been developed on restriction of the coolants use.Among the several techniques,MQL(minimum quantity of lubricant)technique has received special attention from machining users because of its advantages in terms of surface quality of workpiece and drastic reduction in use of coolant.In this context,this paper evaluated the performance of the MQL technique as compared to the flood coolant in peripheral surface grinding of AISI P100(VP100)steel with conventional aluminum oxide grinding wheel in relation to the surface roughness(Ra and Rz).Input parameters tested were equivalent chip thickness(0.09μm,0.18μm and 0.27μm)and flow rate of the cutting fluid(60 mL/h,150 mL/h and 240 mL/h)of the MQL system.Results showed that the grinding with MQL technique provided lower surface roughness values compared to conventional flood cooling,especially when machining under the intermediary cutting conditions.Also,with exception of heq of 0.09 m,the MQL technique resulted in lower values of Rz parameter as compared to the conventional coolant technique,regardless of the flow rate tested.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U19372708)。
文摘The ultrahigh strength 300M steel has been commonly used in the manufacture of aircraft landing gear and rotor shaft parts due to its excellent mechanical properties.Creep feed grinding is one of the essential operations during the whole component manufacturing processes.In this work,the feasibility of creep feed grinding of 300M steel by using the hard zirconium corundum wheel was theoretically and experimentally evaluated.A variety of responses including grinding forces,temperature fields,specific grinding energy,surface integrity and chip modes were carefully recorded.Besides,the mechanism of ground surface profile generation and the spatial frequency spectrum of the surface profile were tentatively analyzed.It was found that the wheel speed has a relative influence on the grinding forces and temperatures of which the work hardening effect dominates the material removal with lower wheel speed while the thermal softening becomes crucial as the wheel speed exceeds the critical value for the studied 300M steel.Furthermore,a scattered spatial frequency spectrum for the generated surface profile was noticed with lower wheel speed while the spectrum gathers towards the lower frequency values with higher amplitude as the wheel speed increases.The shearing chip and flowing chip dominates the main chip type,indicating the excellent abrasive sharpness during the grinding process.In general,the used zirconium corundum wheel presents feasibility for the creep feed grinding of 300M steel because of the high material removal rate,absence of surface burn,low wheel wear and higher compressive residual stresses.
