Papers by Author: R. Cai

Abstract: This paper describes the structure, content and relations employed in the development of an intelligent grinding database. The intelligent database has been constructed in MS Access with Visual Basic support code. The database was developed as an integral feature of an intelligent grinding assistant (IGA  ). The IGA  has been implemented and evaluated on a cooperating partners CNC machine tool.

Abstract: Wheel structure has a critical influence on grinding performance especially active cuttingedge density. Experiments were carried out to find out the relationshipbetween active and staticcutting edge density. It was found that there are many more active cutting edges in grinding thanexpected based on chip thickness formulae mainly due to wheel deflection in grinding.