Study of the Influence of Cutting Regime Parameters on Grinding Forces in Processing Tungsten Carbide Dk460uf

This paper presents a study on grinding tungsten carbide DK460UF, through experimental investigation using diamond grinding wheel with 54 μm grain size. Different sets of experiments were performed to study the effects of the independent grinding parameters such as grinding wheel speed, feed and depth of cut on cutting forces. Test results showed that the feed and depth of cut influence significantly the cutting forces. The research was lead to optimize the process parameters for reducing cutting forces. In this way, for different parameters of cutting regime, it were measured the values of the components of the grinding force, tangential component, Ft and normal component Fn. The results of the experiment showed that it is better to use great speeds and small feed rate and depth of cut in grinding tungsten carbides, such as DK460UF