Design and Fabrication of the Superabrasive Grinding Wheel with Phyllotactic Pattern

Abstract:

In order to achieve the controllability of the abrasive arrangement on the working surface of grinding wheel,a new kind of the superabrasive grinding wheel, which has defined abrasive grain cluster pattern, has been designed based on the phyllotaxis theory of biology, and fabricated with UV lithography method and electroplating technology. The analytical results indicate that the phyllotactic parameters influence on the abrasive arrangement configuration on the work surface of the superabrasive grinding wheel, so as to improve grinding performance of the grinding wheel, increasing the diameter of phyllotactic abrasive grain cluster and decreasing phyllotactic coefficient can increases the abrasive grain density of the surperabrasive grinding wheel surface. Electroplating experimental results show that the reasonable electroplating processes can reduce the faults of defined abrasive arrangement on the superabrasive grinding wheel surface.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 472-475)
• Pages: 2354-2360
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.472-475.2354
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Yu Shan Lu, Cheng Yi Zhao, Jun Wang, Yan He, Zhi Hui Kou
• Keywords: Abrasive Grain Cluster, Grinding, Phyllotactic Pattern, Superabrasive Grinding Wheel

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