Development and Research on the Dynamics Simulation System for Surface Grinding Process with Diamond Wheel

Abstract

Vibration during high-speed surface grinding process is one of important factors to influence surface precision of machined workpieces and lead to low efficiency of grinding machine. Process parameters are usually obtained from empirical data or reference manuals for the avoidance of serious vibration even chatter and its effect. As a result, it generally leads to low rated power of machine tool and long processing cycle. To solve the problem, designing and development on a dynamics simulation system for surface grinding with high accuracy ,which will be capable to predict a series of dynamic characteristics in time and frequency domains, such as grinding force-vibration, as well as phase/frequency characteristics, relative power spectral analysis etc is necessary and shows good application prospect. Meanwhile, the system will be used to indicate the process parameters optimization and investigate distribution characteristics of grain chip thickness and surface topography precision. In the paper, surface grinding process with diamond wheel is chosen as the study object and its dynamic characteristics are investigated. Based on studies on the comprehensive influence mechanism of regenerative chatter theory and wheel run-out rotational model on instantaneous grinding chip thickness of grain unit, analytical models of grinding force are improved. Differential equations of damper grinding vibration system with two-degree-of-freedom and a close-loop control system model with regenerative chatter feedback circle on the basis of interaction behaviors of force and vibration are built. Several relevant numerical methods are introduced to develop the simulation system of grinding dynamics. By comparative analysis on solution accuracy, steadiness and convergence of the correlative algorithms, explicit Runge-Kutta formula is identified as the best solution to simulation system modeling. On the basis of the above work, main subsystems and functional modules in the system are presented. The whole designs of framework and prototype systems are finished.