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Performance of Silicon Carbide Wheels in Grinding Tool Steels

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This work describes grindability tests on eight tool steels using plunge grinding at a constant rate of infeed. Due to chemical affinity between silicon carbide and steels which are deficient in carbon, rapid wheel wear occurred leading to vibration and poor surface finish. On the other hand, silicon carbide abrasive was shown to be superior to aluminium oxide for grinding steels having a high carbon content such as chromium-high carbon die steel D3. When neat oil containing sulphur and chlorine was used, silicon carbide abrasive was found to be satisfactory for grinding all of the tool steels.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

    O. I. Ahmed & D. S. Dugdale

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  1. O. I. Ahmed
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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK

    S. A. Tobias (Chance Professor and Head of Department) (Chance Professor and Head of Department)

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Ahmed, O.I., Dugdale, D.S. (1977). Performance of Silicon Carbide Wheels in Grinding Tool Steels. In: Tobias, S.A. (eds) Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81484-8_20

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