Abstract
The authors have made investigations about diamond wheel grinding in which plunge cut method by plain cup diamond wheels of bronze bonded was adopted. In this paper the influences of the diamond concentration of the wheel on stock removal is discussed theoretically and experimentally. And surface roughness produced in the grinding tests is also described.
Theoretical investigation shows the tendency that stock removal decreases with the increase of the diamond concentration of the wheel if assumed the wheel having the abrasive grains whose tip has spherical shape, and the similar tendency was recognized in the grinding tests to some extent.
Characteristics of the stock removal-normal grinding force (or contact pressure between the wheel and work surface) for a diamond wheel was clarified.
It is also known that surface roughness Hmax decreases with the increase of the diamond concentration of the wheel.
