Wear of Diamond Wheel in Groove Grinding of Cemented Carbide - Influences of Speed Ratio and Nitrogen Gas Dissolved Coolant

Abstract

This paper describes on the experimental results of diamond wheel wear in groove grinding of cemented carbide. The speed ratio of grinding was widely changed. Square grooves and 90 degree V-grooves were ground. The square grooves were ground by using a resin-bonded diamond wheel and the V-grooves were by a vitrified diamond wheel. At first, a water-based coolant was used, but afterward, to investigate a possibility of nitrogen to suppress the wear of wheel, nitrogen gas was dissolved into the water-based coolant. The main results obtained are as follows, (1) The wheel wear increases as the speed ratio decreases, (2) The average grinding forces is almost independent from the grinding conditions but those at the lowest speed ratio are fairly large, (3) The influence of nitrogen gas dissolved coolant is small, but in a case of V-shape grinding at a middle speed ratio there found a considerable decrease of wheel wear.