Experimental Studies on MoS2-Treated Grinding Wheel Active Surface Condition after High-Efficiency Internal Cylindrical Grinding Process of INCONEL® Alloy 718

Wojciech Kapłonek; Krzysztof Nadolny; Marzena Sutowska; Mozammel Mia; Danil Yu Pimenov; Munish K Gupta

doi:10.3390/mi10040255

Experimental Studies on MoS₂-Treated Grinding Wheel Active Surface Condition after High-Efficiency Internal Cylindrical Grinding Process of INCONEL^® Alloy 718

Micromachines (Basel). 2019 Apr 17;10(4):255. doi: 10.3390/mi10040255.

Authors

Wojciech Kapłonek¹, Krzysztof Nadolny², Marzena Sutowska³, Mozammel Mia⁴, Danil Yu Pimenov⁵, Munish K Gupta⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Koszalin University of Technology, Racławicka 15-17, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland. wojciech.kaplonek@tu.koszalin.pl.
² Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Koszalin University of Technology, Racławicka 15-17, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland. krzysztof.nadolny@tu.koszalin.pl.
³ Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Koszalin University of Technology, Racławicka 15-17, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland. marzena.sutowska@tu.koszalin.pl.
⁴ Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, 141-142, Love Road, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka 1208, Bangladesh. mozammel.mpe@aust.edu.
⁵ Department of Automated Mechanical Engineering, South Ural State University, Lenin Prosp. 76, 454080, Chelyabinsk, Russia. danil_u@rumbler.ru.
⁶ University Center for Research & Development, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Punjab 140413, India. munishguptnit@gmail.com.

Abstract

This work demonstrates that molybdenum disulfide can be successfully used as an impregnating substance that is introduced in the abrasive tool structure for improving its cutting properties and favorably affecting the effects of the abrasive process. For the experimental studies, a set of MoS₂-treated small-sized grinding wheels with a technical designation 1-35×10×10×109A5X60L10VE0 PI-50 before and after the reciprocating internal cylindrical grinding process of rings made from INCONEL^® alloy 718 was prepared. The condition of grinding wheel active surface was analyzed using an advanced observation measurement system based on stylus/optical profilometry, as well as confocal and electron microscopy. The obtained results confirmed the correctness of introduction of the impregnating substance into the grinding wheel structure, and it was possible to obtain an abrasive tool with a given characteristic.

Keywords: abrasive tools; hard-to-cut materials; image processing and analysis; impregnation process; measurement systems; molybdenum disulfide.