Engineering Research Equipment Grant: High Speed, Precision Cylindrical Grinding

小行星9411552 该奖项用于购买外圆磨床和高速磨削主轴，用于支持磨削工艺的研究。 该设备将用于多个研究项目，包括磨削硬化钢的摩擦学性能，陶瓷的化学辅助磨削，用于扭矩和接触压力测量的微机电传感器，外圆磨削温度，砂轮工作接触刚度以及高速主轴上CBN和金刚石砂轮的高性能磨削。 该研究将有助于更好地理解精密外圆磨削的接触力学和动力学。 由于该工艺广泛用于汽车工业和各种行业的精密部件制造，因此研究结果在广泛的应用中具有潜在的实用价值。

9411552 Chandrasekhar The award is for the purchase of a cylindrical grinding machine and a high-speed grinding spindle which will be used to support research on grinding processes. The equipment will be used for several research projects including grinding of hardened steels for tribological performance, chemically assisted grinding of ceramics, microelectromechanical sensors for torque and contact pressure measurements, cylindrical grinding temperatures, grinding wheel-work contact stiffness and high-performance grinding with CBN and diamond wheels on high-speed spindles. The research will result in better understanding of the contact mechanics and dynamics of precision, cylindrical grinding. Since this process is widely used in the automotive industry and for manufacturing precision components in a variety of industries, the results of the research are potentially useful in a broad range of applications.