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The single-layer superabrasive wheels are made by joining all abrasive grains onto the wheel hub through electroplating or brazing processes. Recently, the attention has risen to acquire a better grinding quality through more stringent grain size control. It is found that any small deviation in the grain dimensional distribution will result in considerable difference in the grinding quality. Therefore, the understanding on correlation between the grain dimensional deviations with the wheel performances will be critical, and the primary step is to establish the correlation between the critical wheel design parameters with the wheel topographical features. In this paper, the ‘through-the-process’ grinding wheel model is developed for single-layer electroplated cubic boron nitride (CBN) wheels by simulating each wheel fabrication procedure, numerically. The efficacy of the wheel model is verified by comparing simulation results with the experimental measurement data in terms of the static grain count and grain protrusion height distribution, and further analysis of the intrinsic relationship between the grain dimensional distribution and the wheel surface topographical properties is carried out so as to provide the quantitative basis for grinding wheel quality control and optimal abrasive product design.
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Li, X., Wolf, S., Zhi, G. et al. The modelling and experimental verification of the grinding wheel topographical properties based on the ‘through-the-process’ method. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 70, 649–659 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-013-5301-6
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