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Investigation of the effect of vibration characteristics on the grinding performance of aero-engine blade tip

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The machining quality of the blade tip has a great influence on the service performance and life of the aero-engine blade. The recent paper investigates the effect of vibration during the grinding process of the GH4169 nickel-based superalloy blade tip. Moreover, this paper proposes a theoretical model to link the unbalance of the grinding wheel, the vibration, and the surface topography characteristics of the blade. The results show that the blade vibration during grinding and the resulting non-linear change of the grinding depth could reduce the surface quality of the blade tip and lead to differences in the surface quality of the blade tip in different areas, where the surface roughness in the entry area zone I is the largest, in the exit area zone III is the second largest, and the intermediate area zone III is the smallest. Grinding depth has a greater impact on the difference of the surface quality in the blade tip grinding process, especially when the grinding depth is greater than 4 μm, the difference of surface roughness increases significantly. On the other hand, the feed rate has little effect on the difference in surface quality. Adding damping block can reduce the surface roughness of the blade tip; however, it does not reduce the difference in surface quality.

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This work was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51875192, 51875191), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2020JJ4193, 2021JJ40064), and the Natural Science Foundation of Changsha City (kq2014048).

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  1. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Wei Li, Mingjia Liu, Yinghui Ren & Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim

  2. China North Vehicle Research Institute, Beijing, 100072, China

    Qidi Chen

  3. Aecc South Industry Company Limited, Hunan, Zhuzhou, 412002, China

    Jian Wu

  4. Production Engineering and Mechanical Design Department, Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt

    Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud Ibrahim

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by WL, QC, JW, ML, YR, and AMMI. The first draft of the manuscript was written by QC and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Li, W., Chen, Q., Wu, J. et al. Investigation of the effect of vibration characteristics on the grinding performance of aero-engine blade tip. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 120, 4663–4679 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-09045-y

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