ON CUMULATIVE DEPTH OF TOUCH-DRESSING OF SINGLE LAYER BRAZED cBN WHEELS WITH REGULAR GRIT DISTRIBUTION PATTERN

The present work deals with a single layer brazed type cBN grinding wheels, which have been developed in-house. Grits were actively brazed on the working surface of the wheels in a regularly distributed pattern so that it could perform grinding without loading. In general, such a wheel produces substantially high transverse roughness. This happens because of its low active grain density. A touch-dressing technique, developed in-house, has been successfully applied on these brazed wheels so that most of the grits did participate and the average roughness could be brought down to an acceptable magnitude. This work investigated the co-relation between the grit size and cumulative depth of dressing required to achieve an acceptable magnitude of transverse roughness. It was found that the required cumulative depth of dressing was dependent on the size of cBN grits. This paper also shows the effect of gradual touch-dressing on improvement of roughness of the surface ground by such new class of recently developed wheels. Experiments were conducted with microcrystalline cBN grits of three different sizes.