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Centerless Grinding

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Centerless grinding is a cylindrical grinding process variant without fixing the workpiece along its axis between centers.

In external centerless grinding, the workpiece lies between grinding wheel, workrest plate, and control wheel which regulates the speed of the workpiece. In internal centerless grinding, the workpiece lies between rolls or shoes and is driven by a control wheel or a faceplate.

Theory and Application

Basic Principles

In 1853, Schleicher developed the first centerless grinding machine for needle grinding. In 1917, Heim introduced workrest plate and control wheel, which improved the performance and enlarged the field of application (Hashimoto et al. 2012). Since then, centerless grinding is highly applicable for large batch and mass production. No clamping steps and no center holes on the workpiece faces are required, which eliminates process steps, reduces time, and diminishes possible form errors (Marinescu et al. 2007). Workpiece loading can be easily...

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  1. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Barbara Linke

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  1. National Engineering School of Monastir (ENIM), University of Monastir, Monastir, Tunisia

    Sami Chatti

  2. Mechanical Engineering, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

    Luc Laperrière

  3. Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Garching, Germany

    Gunther Reinhart

  4. ITIA Institute of Industrial Technologies and Automation, CNR National Research Council, Milan, Italy

    Tullio Tolio

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  1. Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fertigung (IWF), ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Konrad Wegener

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Linke, B. (2019). Centerless Grinding. In: Chatti, S., Laperrière, L., Reinhart, G., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53120-4_6420

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