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Development of a precision grinding machine system for the fabrication of micro V-grooves array

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The microstructures arrays are widely used and have good prospects in different applications because of their special and unique engineering functions. Micro V-grooves array is one of the most common micro structures used for optical and biomedical functions. Precision grinding is one of the micro mechanical machining technologies for a wide range of hard non-ferrous materials to fabricate micro structures array. In this paper, a three-axis computer numerical control (CNC) grinding machine tool is designed for the grinding of micro V-grooves array on hard and brittle materials. Material removal and machining strategy are studied for the grinding of V-grooves array. A machining strategy design (MSD) system is established to generate NC program, simulate the tool paths and machining process as well as predict the total machining time for the grinding of V-grooves array in the developed machine tool. Experiments are designed to grind flat surface and micro V-grooves array on optical glass. The experimental results show that the grinding machine tool can produce high quality surface and micro V-grooves array with sub-micrometer form accuracy.

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This study is funded by the Joint Funds of National Natural Science Foundation of China (U160120189) and Guangdong Innovative Research Team Program (201001G0104781202). It is also funded by Guangdong Provincial Project (2015B090921007, 2015A030312008, 2015B010104006).

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    S. J. Wang, X. Chen, Q. Liu, C. Q. Zhou, J. Q. Liu & Z. Q. Yin

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Wang, S.J., Chen, X., Liu, Q. et al. Development of a precision grinding machine system for the fabrication of micro V-grooves array. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 97, 2141–2150 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-2042-6

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