Papers by Keyword: Centreless Grinding

Abstract: The surface roughness in centerless grinding is mainly affected by the many process parameters. For decreasing the surface roughness, the control of grinding parameters is very important. This paper deal with the analysis of the process parameters such as height of centers, tilting angle of the regulating wheel, speed of the regulating wheel, developed based on Taguchi method and response surface method. The effect of grinding parameters on the surface roughness was evaluated the utilization of the response surface model was evaluated with constraints of the surface roughness.

Abstract: The optimum condition selection of rotary dressing operations using Hall and AE sensor is presented. The acquired current signals from a hall sensor were studied as one of the method to obtain the optimum condition of dressing and the correlations between dressing condition and AE signals were also evaluated with the root mean square (RMS). Dressing operation was performed to investigate the effects of depth of cut, rotating speed and coolant. In order to verify the optimum condition of dressing, AE and hall sensor signals were compared in RMS with the surface micrograph of grinding wheel. This verification experiment demonstrates the effective dressing condition selection for centerless grinding.

Abstract: Along with the recent developments in the optical communication industry, the demand for optical communication components has increased. Ferrule is a significant element that determines transmission efficiency and quality of information in the optical communication area. Most ferrule machining entails grinding and this requires high processing precision. Therefore, the ultra precision centerless grinding machine for ferrule grinding was designed. The centerless grinding machine is composed of a high damping bed, grinding wheel spindle unit, regulating wheel spindle unit, feeding table and dressing unit. Reliability prediction is very important for the high quality design. In this study, reliability of the centerless grinding machine was predicted.

Abstract: This paper describes an experimental investigation of the effect of ultrasonic elliptic vibration of the shoe on the friction between the shoe and the workpiece in ultrasonic elliptic-vibration shoe centerless grinding, a new centerless grinding technique proposed previously by the present authors. In the new technique, an ultrasonic elliptic-vibration shoe is employed to control the workpiece rotational speed as a regulating wheel does in conventional centerless grinding. The grinding accuracy is affected significantly by the workpiece rotation stability, which is dependent on the frictional force between the workpiece and the ultrasonic elliptic-vibration shoe. The issue relating to the friction between the workpiece and the shoe is therefore very important in the complete establishment of the new centerless grinding technique. In the present work, in order to clarify the effect of ultrasonic elliptic vibration of the shoe on the frictional coefficient and to determine the appropriate ultrasonic elliptic vibration conditions, a measurement apparatus was built up in-house and used to measure the frictional coefficient under the presence and absence of the ultrasonic elliptic vibration. The measurement results indicated that the frictional coefficient decreases with increase in the size of the ultrasonic elliptic motion, and a shape of the elliptic motion, in which the frictional coefficient reaches maximum, exists.