Proposal of detecting and evaluating method of cutting edge distributions in grinding wheel surfaces

Abstract

In grinding process, grinding wheel profiles are copied to workpiece surfaces. Therefore the finished workpiece surfaces can be estimated by the grinding wheel surfaces. In this paper, new measuring method of the distribution of cutting edges in grinding wheel surfaces by two AE sensors is proposed. From experimental results, it is confirmed that the distributions of cutting edges in wheel surfaces can be measured easily by the proposed method compared to other measuring methods developed so far.