Poster NANO SURFACE GENERATION OF GRINDING PROCESS USING ELECTROLYTIC IN-PROCESS DRESSING (ELID) TECHNIQUES WITH SINGLE WALL CARBON NANO TUBES

Recent developments in grinding have opened up new avenues for finishingof hard and brittle materials with Nano-surface finish, high tolerance and accuracy.Grinding with super abrasive diamond wheels is an excellent way to produce ultraprecision surface finish. However, super abrasive diamond grits need higher bondingstrength while grinding, which metal-bonded grinding wheels can offer. Truing anddressing of the wheels are major problems and they tend to glaze because of wheelloading. When grinding with super abrasive wheels, wheel loading can be avoided bydressing periodically to obtain continuous grinding. Electrolytic in-process dressing(ELID) is the most suitable process for dressing metal-bonded grinding wheels during thegrinding process. Nano-surface finish can be achieved only when chip removal is done atthe atomic level. ELID is one of the processes used for atomic level metal removal andNano-surface finish. However, no proper and detailed studies have been carried out toclarify the fundamental characteristics for making this process a robust one.Consequently, an attempt has been made in this study to understand the fundamentalcharacteristics of ELID grinding and their influence on surface finish using single wallcarbon nano tubes.