Open AccessDevelopment of an ``intelligent grinding wheel`` for in-process monitoring of ceramic grinding. Semi-annual report {number_sign}1
Author(s) -
S. Malkin,
Rui Gao,
C. Guo,
B. Varghese,
S. Pathare
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/468618
Subject(s) - grinding , grinding wheel , acoustic emission , ceramic , automotive engineering , process (computing) , computer science , transducer , engineering , mechanical engineering , materials science , electrical engineering , metallurgy , operating system , composite material
The overall objective of this project is to develop sensor-integrated ``intelligent`` diamond wheels for grinding of ceramics. Such wheels will be ``smart`` enough to monitor and supervise both the wheel preparation and grinding processes without the need to instrument the machine tool. Intelligent wheels will utilize reusable cores integrated with two types of sensors: acoustic emission (AE) and dynamic force transducers. Signals from the sensors will be transmitted from a rotating wheel to a receiver by telemetry. Wheels will be ``trained`` to recognize distinct characteristics associated with truing, dressing and grinding