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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2007
Krishnamoorthy Subramanian, Lexington, MA (US);
Lukasz A. Glinski, Worcester, MA (US);
Krishnamoorthy Subramanian, Lexington, MA (US);
Lukasz A. Glinski, Worcester, MA (US);
Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Worcester, MA (US);
Saint-Gobain Abrasifs, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, FR;
Abstract
Methods for cylindrical grinding a workpiece are disclosed. The method includes cylindrical grinding, with a bonded abrasive wheel having a permeable structure that includes interconnected porosity, a workpiece at a specific cutting energy of less than about 12 Hp/in·min (29.7 J/mm), and a material removal rate of at least about 1 in/min·in (10.8 mm/sec/mm)grinding. The bonded abrasive wheel may include at least about 3 volume percent of a filamentary sol-gel alpha-alumina abrasive grain having an average length-to-cross-sectional-width ratio of greater than about 4:1, or agglomerates thereof. In one embodiment, the workpiece is ground in the presence of a water soluble oil.