The Prospects of Abrasive Treatment of Tough-To-Machine Materials

In current conditions, great attention is paid to the quality of parts, which is in many ways determined by finishing operations of mechanical treatment, with surface grinding being the most widespread. Grinding process efficiency, abrasive tool wear intensity, machined surface quality and other features of grinding process depend on properties of the environment, where the cutting process takes place. Forced changing of conditions of this environment is one of the ways to control and optimize the grinding process, which can be reached due to finding new technological decisions. One of the most promising directions to solve this problem is the process of face grinding with discontinuous grinding tool and supply of cooling fluid or air in the cutting zone directly. Carried analysis of features of face grinding has shown that heat density can be decreased by the usage by grooved wheels with vortex air cooling or by supply of cooling-lubricant technological fluid. Obtained dependences of temperature field of part surface during grinding establish the influence of the length of working shoulders and grooves, vortex tubes number, outflow rate, temperature and flow rate of cold vortex flow of air. These data provide conscious control over the process of discontinuous face grinding by changing wheel grain size and grinding speed.