Identification in process of grinding wheel wearing mechanism

Author(s)

João Jorge de Faria Gomes

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2001-06-25

Examining board members

João Fernando Gomes de Oliveira; Reginaldo Teixeira Coelho; Jaime Gilberto Duduch; Carlos Alberto Fortulan; Rolf Bertrand Schroeter

• Advisor: João Fernando Gomes de Oliveira

Abstract

The objective of this work is the development of a monitoring system able to identify in process the grinding wheel wear mechanism. Thus, initially the physical quantities, sensors types and monitoring systems strategies, developing status and their applications were researched. To get a reliable and efficient system was necessary a detailed study of the grinding wheel wear mechanism phenomenology. This study allows to define parameters in order to identify which type of wear is occurring, using indication obtained by the monitoring variables whose behavior is known, such as grinding power, vibration or metrological measurement. Two grinding wheel surface optical mapping systems are presented, those systems were utilized as base to developing a new mapping system of Grinding Acoustic Energy Distribution (DEAR). Experiments have been done with the new system, monitoring simultaneously other physical quantities, looking for a way to link the mapping graphic patterns generates by the new system with the wear type which was occurring, based on information obtained from the wear mechanism study. The results and analysis have shown that the DEAR map can be used to identify the predominant wear mechanism type which is occurring on a grinding wheel, in process. This information is very useful in the corrective actions when facing a grinding problem. (AU)