Grinding is an abrasive machining process that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to remove material from a workpiece through its cutting action. It can achieve very high accuracies and fine surface finishes. There are two main types - precision grinding for accurate dimensions and surface grinding, and non-precision grinding for roughing operations. The grinding wheel consists of abrasive grains bonded together using a bonding material and is precisely balanced for high-speed rotation. Process parameters like abrasive type, grain size, bonding material and wheel grade are selected based on the material and precision requirements.

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GRINDING
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M.BALASUBRAMANIAN

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Abrasive Machining
• Material removal by the action of hard,
abrasive particles usually in a form of a bonded
wheel.
• Grinding is the most important abrasive
machining. Cutting occurs at either the
periphery or the face of the grinding wheel.
• Cutting occurs by the abrasive grains that are
much smaller, numerous and random. Self-
sharpening as each abrasive falls off
• Generally a finishing operation achieving the
surface finish of up to 0.025μm and extremely
close tolerance.

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GRINDING
Definition: Another material removal
process, in which abrasive particles are
contained in bonded grinding wheel, that
operates at very high surface speed.
The grinding wheel is usually in
disk shaped and is precisely balanced for
high rotational speeds.

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Grinding may be classified as
• Non-Precision
• Precision
according to purpose and procedure.

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Non-precision grinding
The common forms are called,
snagging and off-hand grinding. Both are
done primarily to remove stock that can
not be taken off as conveniently by other
methods. The work is pressed hard against
the wheel or vice versa. The accuracy and
surface finish are of secondary
importance.

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Rough Grinders
• Bench Grinder
• Swing frame grinder
• Abrasive belt grinder

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Precision grinding
Precision grinding is concerned with
producing good surface finishes and
accurate dimensions.
3 types of precision grinding exists
–External cylindrical grinding
–Internal cylindrical grinding
–Surface grinding

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Grinding wheel
• Consists of abrasive material and bonding
material. Abrasive particles accomplish cutting
• Bonding material holds particles in place and
establishes shape and structure of wheel.
• Parameters
– Abrasive materials
– Grain size
– Bonding material
– Wheel grade and Wheel structure

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Grinding Wheel Surface

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Abrasive Materials Properties
• High hardness
• Wear resistance
• Toughness
• Friability - Capacity to fracture when
cutting edge dulls, so a new sharp
edge is exposed.

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Common abrasive materials
1. Aluminum Oxide (Al2O3)
Various substances may be added to
enhance hardness, toughness, etc. Plain
Al2O3 is white, and used to grind: steel,
ferrous, high strength alloys.
2. Silicon Carbide (SiC) known in trade
as Carborundum. Harder than Al2O3 but
not as tough. Used to grind: aluminum,
brass, stainless steel, cast irons, certain
brittle ceramics

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Abrasive materials (cont)
3. Boron Nitride in the forms of single-
crystal cubic boron nitride (CBN)
Used for hard materials such as
hardened tool steels and aerospace
alloys.
4. Diamond, both natural and artificial.
Used on hard materials such as
ceramics, cemented carbides and glass.

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Grain size
Important parameter in determining
surface finish and material removal rate. Small
grit sizes produce better finishes, larger grit
sizes permit larger material removal rates.
Also, harder materials need smaller grain sizes
to cut effectively, while softer materials require
larger grit size.
Grain sizes used in grinding changes
between 8-250, while 8 is very coarse, but 250
is very fine.

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Bonding materials
To get wide range of properties needed in
grinding wheels, abrasive materials bonded by
using organic or ingorganic materials.
Inorganic bonds
1. Vitrified bond: Clay bond melted to a
porcelain or glass like consistency. It
can be made strong and rigid for heavy
grinding and not effected by water, oil,
acids. Most grinding wheels have
vitrified bonds.

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Inorganic bonds (continue)
2. Silicate bond is essentially hardened by
baking. It holds grains more loosely than a
vitrified bond. Large wheels can be made
more easily with slicate bond. Usually used
in situation where heat generation must be
minimized.
3. Metallic bond: Cubic boron nitride and
diamond abrassives are usually (but not
always) embeded in metallic bonds, for
utmost in strength and tendency to hold the
costly long-wearing grains.

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Organic bonds
1. Rubber bond is a flexible bond, used in
cutoff wheels.
2. Resinoid bond is a high strength bond,
used for rough grinding and cutoff
operations.
3. Shellac bond is relatively strong but not
rigid, used in applications that requires
good finishing.

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Wheel grade and wheel structure
The grade of a grinding wheel is a
measure of how strongly the grains are
held by the bond. Typical structure of a
grinding wheel contains abrasive grains,
bond material and pores (air gaps)

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STRUCTURE
• This indicates the amount of bond
present between the individual abrasive
grains, and the closeness of the
individual grain to each other.

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Wheel grade and wheel structure
Volumetric proportions can be expressed
as
Vg + Vb+ Vp = 1
If Vp relatively large and Vg relatively
small, it is called open structure.
If Vg relatively large and Vp relatively
small, it is called dense structure.

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Wheel structure (cont)
Open structures are recommended in
situations where the clearance for chips must
be provided. Dense structures are used to
obtain better surface finish and dimensional
control.

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Specification of the Grinding Wheel
• Diameter of the wheel
• Bore diameter of the wheel
• Thickness of the wheel
• Type of the wheel

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GRADE
• Grade indicates the strength of the bond
and, therefore, the `hardness` of the wheel.
In a hard wheel the bond is strong and it
securely anchors the grit in place, and
therefore, reduces the rate of wear. In a soft
wheel, the bond is weak and the grit is easily
detached resulting in a high rate of wear.

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American National Standard Institute’s marking
system for standard wheels(specification)
Prefix-Abbrasive type-Abrasive grain size-Grade-
Structure-Bond type-Manufacturer record
Ex: 51-A-36-L-5-V-23
Prefix:Manufacturer symbol indicating exact kind of
abrasive (use optional)
Abrassive type: A:Aluminum oxide
C:Silicon Carbide B: Boron Nitride D:Diamond
Grain size: coarse:8-24, medium:30-60, fine:70-180,
very fine: >220

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American National Standard Institude’s
marking system for standard wheels (cont)
Grade:Ranges from A-Z, where A represents
soft, Z represents hard wheel grade.
Structure: Scale is numerical. 1: very dense and
15:very open.
Bond type: B : Resinoid
E : Shellac R : Rubber
S : Silicate V : Vitrified
Manufacturer record: Manufacturer’s private
marking to identify the wheel.

26. SELECTION OF GRINDING WHEEL
The selection of a grinding wheel will depend on the
following factors.
• Material to be ground
• Amount of stock to be removed
• Finish required
• Area of contact
• Wheel speed
• Method of cooling

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Wheel shape and sizes
•Straight cylinders
•Tapered two sides
•Straight cup
•Flaring cup
•Dish
•Saucer

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Applications
• Tapered face straight wheel – Grinding threads and
gear teeth
• Cylinder wheel - Producing flat surfaces
• Flaring Cup Wheel - Tool room work
Simultaneously grinds the
face and root of the gear teeth
• Dish wheel - Thinness of the wheel
permits it grind the
surface at narrow places

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Wheel Wear
The overall wear of bonded abrasive is
caused by 3 distinct mechanism
Attritious wear: Sharp edges of an
abrasive grain become dull by attrition,
developing flat areas.
Fracture of the grains: Portion of the
grain breaks off. The fractured area
becomes new cutting area.
Fracture of the bond: Part of the grains
fall out.

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Wheel Dressing

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Dressing and Truing
• Dressing
Removes loading and breaks away the
glazed surface so that sharp abrasive
particles are again presented to work
• Truing
It is the process of changing the shape of
the grinding wheel as it becomes worn
from an original shape owing to the
breaking away of the bond.

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Grain action
There are 3 types of grain action in grinding
1. Cutting: Grit can penetrate to the surface
and actually performs chip removing.
2. Plowing: Grit can penetrate to the
surface(not far enough to cut) but can not
perform cutting. The work surface
deformes.
3. Rubbing: Grits contacts(rubs) to the
surface, energy consumed witout cutting.

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SPECIFICATION OF GRINDING MACHINE
•Distance between table & the middle of spindle 400 mm
•Grinding wheel max. D x W x d 225 x 25 x 51 mm
•Size of magnet 400 x 150 mm
•Size of table 400 x 150 mm
•motor power 2 Kw

36. SURFACE GRINDERS
Types
• Horizonal spindle reciprocating table
• Horizontal spindle rotary table
• Vertical spindle reciprocating table
• Vertical spindle rotary table
This machine may be similar to a milling
machine used mainly to grind flat surface.
However, some types of surface grinders are
also capable of producing contour surface
with formed grinding wheel.

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Surface Grinding

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Surface Grinding Operations
(a) Traverse grinding with a horizontal-spindle surface grinder.
(b) Plunge grinding, producing a groove in the workpiece.

40. CYLINDRICAL GRINDING
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This machine is used to produce external cylindrical surface. The
surfaces may be straight, tapered, steps or profiled. Broadly there are
three different types of cylindrical grinding machine as follows:
•Plain centre type cylindrical grinder
•Universal cylindrical surface grinder -
swiveling wheel head , swiveling wheel head slide, swiveling head
stock
•Centreless cylindrical surface grinder

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Centreless Grinding
• It is undesirable to fix the workpiece every
time between centres
• Work is not supported between centres
• Work is supported on a work rest blade and
the regulating wheel holds the work piece

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ADVANTAGES
• Rate of production is more than cylindrical
grinding
• Work is supported rigidly along the whole
length
• Suitable for long jobs
• Due to floating conditions, Centering is
eliminated and time is not wasted in centering
• Does not require centre holes, drivers and other
work holding fixtures

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INTERNAL GRINDING

46. What is abrasive jet machining
It is the material removal process where the
material is removed by high velocity stream of
air/gas or water and abrasive mixture .
An abrasive is small, hard particle having sharp
edges and an irregular shape .
High velocity jet is aimed at a surface under
controller condition .

47. components of abrasive jet
machining
Abrasive delivery system
Control system
Pump
Nozzle
Mixing tube

48. working process
High velocity gas(up to 300m/min) is delivered to
the nozzle .
At the nozzle , abrasive is introduced & as the
abrasive/gas mixture exits , cutting is performed .
The metal is removed due to the erosion caused by the
abrasive particles on the work surface.
Different types of abrasive used in abrasive jet
machining are aluminum oxide, sodium bicarbonate ,
silicon carbide ,Dolomite,etc

49. schematic diagram of ajm

50. Advantages
It can cut hard materials and thin sections
No start hole required
There is only one tool
Low capital cost
Less vibration
No heat generated in work piece
No mechanical contact between the workpiece
and tool

51. Disadvantages
Low metal removal rate
Additional cleaning on softer material may be
required.
High nozzle wear rate
Machining accuracy is poor

52. APPLICATIONS
• To cut slots
• To cut intricate shapes
• To cut contours
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