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Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Grinding Infeed and Pass Counts on Grindability of Mild Steel

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Manufacturing Engineering

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Grinding is an important machining operation, widely used to obtain finished or semi-finished surfaces of different materials. Mild steel, being one of the mostly used materials in practice, also needs grinding in many cases where it is used in the devices with high precision. However, grinding being a complex operation exhibits several adversities while operated on mild steel. In the present experimental investigation, the grindability of mild steel specimens are thoroughly evaluated at different grinding infeed values and also with changes in number of passes. The typical parameters for accessing the grindability, e.g., surface hardness, surface roughness, ground surface quality and volume of material removal are measured and discussed in details. Two grinding infeed values, viz. 10 and 20 μm are conceived while grinding under four sets of pass counts, i.e., 5, 10, 15 and 20. Experimental results reveal that grinding for 15 pass counts at 10 and 20 μm infeed values are the ideal set of parameters in the operating ranges considered herein.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Sikkim, Ravangla, South Sikkim, 737139, India

    Pranab Kumar Kundu, Bishan Raj Rai & Manish Mukhopadhyay

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  1. School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

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  3. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

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Kundu, P.K., Rai, B.R., Mukhopadhyay, M. (2020). Experimental Investigation on the Effect of Grinding Infeed and Pass Counts on Grindability of Mild Steel. In: Sharma, V., Dixit, U., Sørby, K., Bhardwaj, A., Trehan, R. (eds) Manufacturing Engineering . Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4619-8_16

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