
of stresses increased from 3.51 MN/m
2
to a maximum of 34 MN/m
2
as a function of
rotational speed. The mea sured tensile strength of the abrasive grain material used
was approximately 56 MN/m
2
. This y ielded safety factors in the range between 1.6
and 18. The calculated bursting speeds are also shown in Table 3.3 and 3.4 and are
compared with experimentally determined bursting speed. The calcul ated bursting
speeds are within 5% of the measured bursting speeds and show remarkable
accuracy when using the method developed by Behrens and Kammle r [15]. Their
method takes account of stress concentrations that occur at the recesses of cup-
shaped grinding wheels. Polished micrographs of the structure o f cup wheels also
allowed the author to measure the critical pore size in order to measure the fracture
toughness of the cup wheels. The measured fracture toughness for the 80-grain size
cup wheel was 2.14 MPa m, and 1.8 MPa m for a 36-grain size cup wheel. The
standard deviation was 10 and 12%, respectively.
When considering conventional grinding wheels, a continuous layer of abrasive
adhered to the periphery of the hub material generates a maximum stress due to
centripetal loading that acts in the circumferential direction and is tensile in nature.
The circumferential stress is highest in all components of the grinding wheel, i.e.
abrasive layer, adhesive bonding layer, and the hub material. This magnitude of
stress is used to ascribe the maximum operating speed to a particular grinding
wheel. A clamping arrangement is used that prevents radial displacement at the
bore so that grinding wheels operate within their recommended safe operating
limits. The results obtained from finite element analyses of segmented grinding
wheels suggest that the maximum rotational stress in the grinding wheel is in the
radial direction and is tensile in nature. The change in direction is caused by the
Fig. 3.47 Fringe plot of large cup shaped grinding wheel spinning at 45 m/s (P ¼250, F ¼25).
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174 M.J. Jackson