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Honing

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Synonyms

Fine grinding; Shave grinding; Superfinishing

Definition

Honing is abrasive machining with bonded geometrically undefined abrasive cutting edges whereby the multi-cutting point honing stones describe at least two components of motion with at least one of them not rotational (CIRP Dictionary of Production Engineering 2004). Honing serves to improve the shape, size, subsurface, and surface quality of the workpiece.

Theory and Application

The application focus of honing is the internal honing, for example, in automotive engineering such as finishing cylinder bores, crankshaft bores, fuel injection pump housings, etc. Another field of application is hydraulics and pneumatics.

Depending on the geometry of the workpiece and the process kinematics, different process variants are classified, for example (CIRP Dictionary of Production Engineering 2004):

  • External honing

  • Internal honing/bore honing

  • Short stroke honing/superfinishing

  • Longitudinal stroke honing

  • Face honing

  • Gear honing

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

    Hans-Werner Hoffmeister

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  1. Hans-Werner Hoffmeister
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  1. PARIS, France

    Int. Academy for Production Engineering

  2. IUL-Inst, Tech Univ Dortmund IUL-Inst, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Sami Chatti

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Tecnologie Industriali Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy

    Tullio Tolio

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  1. Institute of Machine Tools and Manufacturing, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Konrad Wegener

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Hoffmeister, HW. (2018). Honing. In: Int. Academy for Production Engineering, Chatti, S., Tolio, T. (eds) CIRP Encyclopedia of Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35950-7_6430-5

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