Fabrication of bilayer resin-bonded fixed abrasive wires using the pultrusion process

Abstract

Abstract The fabrication of resin-bonded abrasive composite materials with constant cross-section was achieved by wire pultrusion wherein a piano wire of diameter 120 μm used as a core was pulled through a surface pretreatment, resin bath and into a die orifice and oven, where the impregnated resin slurry was cured at a moderate temperature. The bilayer resin-bonded fixed diamond wire with a diameter of about 191–205 μm with an inner layer of phenolic-modified epoxy resin and an outer layer of phenolic resin through the pultrusion method was presented. The results showed that when liquid resin slurry with higher diamond concentration during the pultrusion process was used, a larger wire diameter, less diamond spacing and higher diamond protrusion were obtained.