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Electric Spark Dressing: Redefining In-Situ Maintenance for Metal Bond Grinding Wheels

James Andrew Whitmore·Ethan Marcus Caldwell
Published 14 January 2025
Vol. 12, No. 3 (2024)
pp. 13-20
CC BY 4.0
  1. 1
    James Andrew Whitmore
    Center for Advanced Materials Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
    US
  2. 2
    Ethan Marcus Caldwell
    Center for Advanced Materials Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
    US

The metal-bonded diamond grinding wheels wear out obviously in grinding process of hard and brittle materials such as SiC ceramics, and the shape accuracy will be destroyed, which will affect the grinding surface accuracy and surface quality. In this paper, a swing arm type electric spark dressing device is designed based on the characteristics of metal-bonded grinding wheel, which can realize high dressing precision. Then the electric sparking experiment was carried out using the dressing device. The experimental results show that higher dressing efficiency and low arc precision can be obtained with large electrical parameters, while higher arc precision and lower efficiency could be obtained with small electrical parameters. Therefore, the experiment can guide the selection of different parameter combinations in different dressing stages to improve the dressing efficiency and precision

JournalColumbia Journal of Engineering and Technology
ISSN3065-0437
Volume / IssueVol. 12, No. 3 (2024)
Pages13-20
Published14 January 2025
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LicenseCC BY 4.0 — reuse with attribution
PublisherKeith Publications
Whitmore , J., Caldwell, E. (2025). Electric Spark Dressing: Redefining In-Situ Maintenance for Metal Bond Grinding Wheels. Columbia Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 12 No. 3, pp. 13-20

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