Abstract
High grinding temperature restricts the machining efficiency and precision of some aeronautical difficult-to-machine materials. Aiming to enhance heat exchange with the grinding zone and reduce grinding temperature, heat pipe grinding wheel (HPGW) provides a novel method through improving the thermal conductivity of grinding wheel assisted by heat pipe. In this paper, the structure of HPGW is introduced and the workpiece temperature and energy partition in wet grinding using HPGW based on a wheel-fluid composite surface model is analyzed. Wet grinding experiments including creep feed grinding, high-speed shallow grinding and high-efficiency deep grinding (HEDG) are carried to investigate the cooling characteristics of HPGW according to the workpieces of titanium alloy Ti-6A1-6 V and Inconel 718. Compared with using the traditional grinding wheel, the results show that using HPGW in creep feed grinding and HEDG can maintain a lower grinding temperature and avoid the burnout under a relatively high removal rate, but cooling effect of HPGW is not obviously different from the traditional grinding wheel in high-speed shallow grinding due to a small heat input at the evaporator of HPGW.
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This study receives financial support from the Youth Science Foundation of China (No. 51605144) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U1604254 and No. 51775170).
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He, Q., Fu, Y., Chen, J. et al. Experimental investigation of cooling characteristics in wet grinding using heat pipe grinding wheel. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 97, 621–627 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-1881-5
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