1985 Volume 51 Issue 9 Pages 1738-1743
This paper describes the availability of soft grade wheels in creep feed grinding. In creep feed grinding, both an increase in grinding force and a burn become serious problems because of loading and dulling on wheel. As one of the methods of improving these problems, maintenance of grinding performance by activating self-sharpening has been proposed. In order to activate self-sharpening, the following two attempts are performed. The first is to increase cutting force per cutting edge. The second is to use a soft grade wheel. From grinding tests with soft grade (C-E) wheels, influences of grinding conditions on wheel wear and grinding force are investigated. As a result of investigations, it is evident that the use of a soft grade wheel under optimum grinding condition is effective and suitable for the creep feed grinding.
