Physicochemical wear of abrasive grains during grinding processes

Abstract

One of the modes of the wear of abrasive grains that occur during grinding is physicochemical wear, which is caused by the intensive interaction between an abrasive material and a material being ground. Despite the short duration of contact between a grain and a blank at high surface temperatures with the friction of the material being ground against the wear site of the abrasive grain, as well as juvenile and subsequently oxidized surfaces, predetermine the physicochemical interaction between the abrasive material and the material being ground. The problem of developing a quantitative characteristic of these processes has not yet been solved. A system of coefficients of the chemical affinity of the abrasive material and the material being ground that characterize the intensity of the physicochemical processes that occur in the zone of contact is proposed.