Manufacturing Technology Today

S. Shaji ¹, V. Radhakrishnan ²

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Govt. Engineering College, Trivandrum-695035, IN
2 Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore-641105, IN

Abstract

The conventional flood coolants employed in grinding suffer many limitations. Application of solid lubricants in grinding has proved to be a feasible alternative to the fluid coolants, if it could be applied in a proper way. Solid lubricant sandwiched wheels offer built-in supply of lubricants along with interrupted grinding. The development of such wheels and the workpiece surface Quality aspects are dealt with here.

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