Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels
Grinding is an industrial process that produces engineering components with a desired surface finish. Prior to the development of continuous dressing operations, the grinding efficiency of vitrified grinding wheels deteriorates as the sharp cutting edges become blunt due to the formation of wear fla...
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| author | Jackson, M. J. Khangar, A. Chen, X. Robinson, G. M. Venkateshd, V. C. Dahotreb, N. B. |
| author_facet | Jackson, M. J. Khangar, A. Chen, X. Robinson, G. M. Venkateshd, V. C. Dahotreb, N. B. |
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| description | Grinding is an industrial process that produces engineering components with a desired surface finish. Prior to the development of continuous dressing operations, the grinding efficiency of vitrified grinding wheels deteriorates as the sharp cutting edges become blunt due to the formation of wear flats. Dressing is essentially a sharpening operation designed to generate a specific topography on the working surface of the grinding wheel. The use of high power lasers is being explored as a non-contact cleaning and dressing technique. In the present study, a high power laser was used to clean metal chips from the surface of the grinding wheel and to dress the wheel by causing phase transformations to occur on the surface of vitrified grinding wheel. Experimental results indicated that laser modified grinding wheels are comparable in performance to conventionally cleaned and dressed grinding wheels. |
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| spelling | utm.eprints-171162017-10-23T13:24:55Z http://eprints.utm.my/17116/ Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels Jackson, M. J. Khangar, A. Chen, X. Robinson, G. M. Venkateshd, V. C. Dahotreb, N. B. TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Grinding is an industrial process that produces engineering components with a desired surface finish. Prior to the development of continuous dressing operations, the grinding efficiency of vitrified grinding wheels deteriorates as the sharp cutting edges become blunt due to the formation of wear flats. Dressing is essentially a sharpening operation designed to generate a specific topography on the working surface of the grinding wheel. The use of high power lasers is being explored as a non-contact cleaning and dressing technique. In the present study, a high power laser was used to clean metal chips from the surface of the grinding wheel and to dress the wheel by causing phase transformations to occur on the surface of vitrified grinding wheel. Experimental results indicated that laser modified grinding wheels are comparable in performance to conventionally cleaned and dressed grinding wheels. Elsevier 2007-04 Article PeerReviewed Jackson, M. J. and Khangar, A. and Chen, X. and Robinson, G. M. and Venkateshd, V. C. and Dahotreb, N. B. (2007) Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 185 (30). pp. 17-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2006.03.109 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2006.03.109 |
| spellingShingle | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Jackson, M. J. Khangar, A. Chen, X. Robinson, G. M. Venkateshd, V. C. Dahotreb, N. B. Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels |
| title | Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels |
| title_full | Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels |
| title_fullStr | Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels |
| title_full_unstemmed | Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels |
| title_short | Laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels |
| title_sort | laser cleaning and dressing of vitrified grinding wheels |
| topic | TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
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