Papers by Keyword: Laser Dressing

Abstract: In this present work, Investigation was carried on the surface of laser dressed super abrasive grinding wheel to study the topography of the super abrasive wheel surface, the residual stress distribution on the laser dressed surface of the wheel and to analyse the heat affected zone of the wheel surface. To investigate all this terms the experimental study of Scanning Electron Microscope and Raman Spectroscopy on the laser dressed wheel surface were done and objective of this work is also to show the effectiveness of laser dressing by measuring the surface roughness of the workpiece before and after laser dressing operation.

Abstract: A two-dimensional mathematical model is developed to simulate laser truing and dressing of bronze-bonded diamond grinding wheel. Based on the model, the ablation depth produced on bond and diamond abrasives by an acousto-optic Q-switched YAG pulsed laser under different parameters as well as the temperature field on grinding wheel surface produced in the laser ablation process are numerically simulated. An experimental study on laser truing and dressing of grinding wheel is also conducted. In the study, the wheel surface is ablated by the single-pulsed laser and measured with a measurement device for surface topographic information. Both the theoretical analysis and the experimental results indicate that the truing and dressing processes can be simultaneously realized with the laser ablation as a single process.

Abstract: A Nd:YAG crystal having a special structure achieved laser operation with an extinction ratio of over 20 dB, a CW (continuous wave) average power of 6 W, a pulse width of 50 ns, and repetition rates in the range 1 kHz – 10 kHz for an output wavelength of 1064 nm for effectively cooling the crystal for the case of laser dressing. The birefringence induced by the stress applied to the crystal results in the production of elliptical polarization before the Brewster-window and thus decreases the laser efficiency. In this paper, we analyzed the relationship between the distortion and the birefringence in a Nd:YAG crystal and the resulting effect on the laser power.

Abstract: Laser processing of super-abrasive grinding wheel is paying a role in a truing/dressing technique to complement mechanical methods recently. However, normal dressing/truing is difficult owing to the toughness of metal-bond materials and high hardness of diamond abrasive. Both geometric and mathematic models were developed to improve laser processing quality and predict various processing parameters, such as focal offset, and incident power, and power density to perform material removal during laser processing a metal-bond diamond grinding wheel. Various trends of the geometrical features of dressing zone in terms of the varying focal offsets were analyzed. Discussions were also given on dressing-zone geometry control. Experimental studies were carried out using different processing parameters to test the effects of laser poweres on dressing quality. Further grinding-force measurement determined the laser dressing parameters with respect to the wheel surface conditions. The normal force FN reduces up to 20%, while tangential force FT decreases to 7% too.The outcomes were shown well agreement with predicted results.