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A study on thermal characteristics of micro-scale grinding process using nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (MQL)

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The objective of this study was to investigate the thermal characteristics of a micro-scale grinding process using nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) with experimental and numerical analyses. In the experimental analysis, a series of micro-scale grinding experiments were conducted with the miniaturized machine tool system, and the sub-surface grinding temperatures and tangential grinding forces were measured with an embedded thermocouple and a load cell, respectively. For numerical analysis, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) approach was adopted to build a new thermal and flow model for the micro-scale grinding process with consideration of the input heat flux, while the grinding energy partition was also estimated using a response surface method (RSM). The grinding temperatures estimated from the numerical analysis displayed good agreement with experimental values, thus validating the proposed thermal model. The grinding temperatures, grinding heat flux into the workpiece and grinding energy partition under the nanofluid MQL were also found to be much lower than those in the cases of compressed air lubrication and pure MQL.

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Abbreviations

Ftangential :

Tangential direction grinding force

qc :

Actual grinding heat flux into the workpiece during the grinding process

qtotal :

Total grinding heat flux during the grinding process

ε :

Grinding energy partition

Vs :

Cutting speed

bw :

Width of the workpiece to be ground

lc :

Contact length of the workpiece and grinding tool

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  1. Production Engineering Research Institute, LG Electronics, 222, LG-ro, Jinwi-myeon, Pyeongtaek-si, Gyeonggi-do, 451-713, South Korea

    Pil-Ho Lee

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 2066, Seobu-ro, Jangan-gu, Suwon-si Gyeonggi-do, 440-746, South Korea

    Sang Won Lee, Soo-Hong Lee & Han Seo Ko

  3. Department of Mechanical & System Design Engineering, Hongik University, 94 Wausan-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, 121-791, South Korea

    Se-Hwa Lim & Seung-Won Shin

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Lee, PH., Lee, S.W., Lim, SH. et al. A study on thermal characteristics of micro-scale grinding process using nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (MQL). Int. J. Precis. Eng. Manuf. 16, 1899–1909 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-015-0247-2

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