1980 Volume 46 Issue 4 Pages 395-401
The concept of the distribution of the grinding force at the area of contact between the grinding wheel and the workpiece was introduced on the assumption that the grinding force is distributed continuously at the area of contact. The integration value of the distribution is equal to the grinding force. Based on the model constructed here, some characteristics of the distribution and the grinding force in high-depth-of-cut grinding were analyzed theoretically and investigated experimentally. It was confirmed that the concept of the distribution of the grinding force is useful in order to analyze some characteristics in high-depth-of-cut grinding. As a result, the following conclusions may be drawn. (1) The distribution in a vertical direction (the Y coordinate) can be assumed ap-proximately in a linear relation to X-distance, and the distribution in a horizontal direction (the X coordinate) is infinitively large at Y= 0, decreasing rapidly with the increasing value of Y to reach a nearly constant value. (2) The distributions in a normal and a tangential direction can be obtained from the distributions in the vertical and the hor-izontal distribution. The distributions in a normal and a tangential direction are both increase linearly along the arc of contact. The directions of the vectors of the distributions have a significant effect on the vertical and the horizontal components of the grinding force.
