Experimental Analysis of a Grinding Wheel by Increasing Multiple Passes in Dressing

Abstract

When sharpness of grinding wheel becomes dull, a dressing is an operation performed because of glazing and loading, dulled grains and chips are removed (crushed or fallen) with a proper dressing tool to make sharp cutting edges and simultaneously, make recesses for chips by properly extruding to grain cutting edges. The basic dressing operation consists of removal of grains and swarfloaded, generation and exposure of the new cutting edges on the cutting surface of the grinding wheel. The former is obtained by digging out the swarf and the latter is achieved by fracturing the existing abrasive grains and allowing desired protrusion of abrasive particles on the cutting surface. Both of the above operations are carried out using a diamond dresser (3 carat). A part of this work focuses on finding the optimum dressing parameters (depth of cut of the dresser and the number of passes) which gives optimum cutting condition for grinding using conventional method of grinding using diamond dresser, Water Jet Machine and Abrasive Water Jet Machine. The trial run on the conventional machine with different parameters was performed. The results obtained prove the possibility of using directly in the industrial practices.