belt grinding process

The effects of parameters such as cutting speed, force, polymer wheel hardness, feed, and grit size in the abrasive belt grinding process to model material removal are explored to find the most substantial effect. This article explores the effects of parameters such as cutting speed, force, polymer wheel hardness, feed, and grit size in …

1. Multi-functional Processing. Abrasive belt grinding is a versatile process that combines cutting, grinding, and polishing actions. The abrasive grains on the belt …

Reducing carbon emissions during belt grinding is of great significance for environmentally friendly production in the manufacturing industry. In this paper, in order to better grinding aero-engine titanium alloy blades with the abrasive belt, an improved NSGA-II multi-objective optimization algorithm was proposed, which reduced the carbon …

In the actual grinding process, many factors have an impact on the final grinding removal rate, including abrasive belt mesh number, rotational speed, and grinding force [11] [12] [13]. In order ...

Belt grinding process. The belt grinding system mainly consists of an elastomer contact wheel which is a compliant tool and can be deformed to adapt to different shapes of free-surfaces as illustrated in Fig. 1 (a). The abrasive belt is fastened around the contact wheel and functions as cutting edges to remove the material of the workpiece …

In the robotic belt grinding process, the elastic contact condition between the flexible tool and the workpiece is a critical issue which extremely influences the surface quality of the manufactured part. The existing analysis of elastic removal mechanism is based on the statistic contact condition but ignoring the dynamic removal phenomenon. …

The paper is organised as follows; a brief overview of the Abrasive Belt Grinding process and the problem statement is presented in Section 1, followed by a brief outline of the belt grinding process and the Adaptive Neuro-fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) in Section 2.The machining conditions, experimental setup, process parameter …

The abrasive belt grinding performance is mainly reflected in three aspects: material removal efficiency, grinding temperature, and grinding surface quality. The …

Fig. 1 illustrates the working principle of robotic belt grinding (RBG). From a macroscopic perspective, the RBG process is performed by moving the workpiece mounted at the end effector and approaching the abrasive belt until the workpiece maintains stable contact with the belt, as shown in Fig. 1 (a). Under the normal force F n, …

Abstract. Grinding is a manufacturing process which significantly contributes in producing high precision and durable components required in numerous …

Figure 1. Principle of the belt grinding process. The significant benefit of the belt grinding process is that there is no requirement of a coolant system as the grinding belts with the typical length of 2 to 5 m can cool down during the return strokes on the process [25]. Similar to traditional grinding processes, many machining parameters,

The abrasive belt grinding process essentially is a two-body abrasive compliant grinding processes wherein the abrasive belt is forced against the components to remove …

During grinding process, the compression deformation force of abrasive belt equal to the pressure force abrasive grains cutting into matrix, so following relationship can be obtained: (6) σ m ⋅ π h 1 2 tan α 2 = k ⋅ Δ L 1 where, σ m is a material-dependent constant, and k is a constant related to the characteristic of abrasive belt.

Grinding is an abrasive machining process that uses a grinding wheel or abrasive belt as the cutting tool. It is commonly used to remove material from a workpiece, to produce a smooth finish on the surface of the workpiece, or to remove burrs from the surface.

Energy partition is one of the vital aspects in belt grinding to guarantee quality and improve efficiency. However, elastic contact (Yang et al., 2021) between grains and workpiece and unpredictable grinding temperature make the belt grinding process is one of the most complex machining process. Therefore, relevant researches have been ...

The process variables involved in a belt grinding process include the grit and abrasive type of grinding belt, belt speed, contact wheel hardness, serration, and grinding force. Changing these ...

To test the normal grinding force stability performance of the passive compliance control, the verification experiment was carried out. Meanwhile, the material removal rate of belt grinding could be expressed as [26].(23) Λ = C A K A K t V b V W L W F N where Λ is the material removal rate, C A is the constant of the grinding process, K …

Belt grinding is a material processing operation which is capable of producing parts to high dimensional accuracy, excellent finish surface, and surface integrity. Unlike turning or other metal cutting operations that use geometrically well-defined tools, belt grinding involves tool geometry and cutting actions that are not well defined. …

Abrasive belt grinding has become widely used in industries due to its virtues of flexibility, applicability, and cost-efficiency. However, the relative grinding direction, namely up or down grinding, has often been overlooked and unclear on …

In order to improve the grinding process and realize optimal grinding, a new controllable and flexible belt grinding mechanism is designed and assembled in a …

An optimization algorithm for dynamic tool frame can be considered to add one degree-of-freedom to the grinding kinematical chain, which provides the theoretical support for the improvement of robotic dexterity for the complex surface grinding. Off-line programming (OLP) system becomes one of the most important programming modules for the robotic …

For a robotic belt grinding system, it is a tough job to achieve high-quality grinding of complex contour without real-time closed loop process control. This is particularly true when grinding difficult-to-cut materials such as superalloys [ 8, 12 ].

Abrasive belt grinding has become widely used in industries due to its virtues of flexibility, applicability, and cost-efficiency. However, the relative grinding direction, …

The grinding process must satisfy the universal demands of the belt grinding technologies, and the most important thing is to make the contact wheel conform to the local geometrical features on ...

Therefore, belt grinding of complex workpieces extensively relies on manual grinding. As shown in Fig. 2, in a manual grinding process, skilled operators usually eliminate local gouges in an ingenious way.First, they partition a complex workpiece into several grinding regions, and then grind the workpiece region by region using either …

Compared with rigid grinding process, belt grinding is an elastic contact grinding process that uses abrasive grains uniformly planted in an elastic substrate to form a grinding tool. Guided by a hyperelastic rubber contact wheel, the abrasive belt contacts the blade surface and makes relative movements to remove material from the workpiece.

Abrasive belt grinding process. Abrasive belt grinding is a variant of traditional rigid grinding processes where the contact wheel consisting of a thermosetting elastomer acts as a compliant tool. The tool can be deformed to machine intricate shapes and geometry [10]. The tool consists of a coated abrasive belt that functions as a cutting …

A new approach to correlating abrasive wear and modeling of belt grinding process. •. New kinematic considering belt wear in the grain-workpiece interface is …

In recent years, robotic belt grinding (RBG) integrated with force control technology and vision sensors has become a mainstream finishing process to ensure the profile accuracy and surface uniformity of the workpieces [1], [2]. ... Moreover, a MR model for the compliant grinding process was established by Zhu et al. [27] based on the …

The process variables involved in a belt grinding process include the grit and abrasive type of grinding belt, belt speed, contact wheel hardness, serration, and grinding force. Changing these …

The belt grinding process is widespread in aerospace industries owing to its compliant nature, to machine components of intricate geometry such as fan blades for achieving uniform material removal.

Belt Grinding is a modification of the traditional grinding processes in which the contact wheel is made of polymer backing material. The grinding belt is formed of abrasives coated on a...

Process variants: Peripheral belt grinding processes with a contact wheel have similar kinematics with grinding processes with bonded abrasives, i.e., grinding wheels. Hence, belt grinding can be applied in various grinding processes, such as external cylindrical grinding (centerless or between centers) and surface grinding, by replacing the ...