Analysis of rigid-disk wear during robotic grinding

An investigation of disk-wear during robotic grinding is described. It is shown that the wear of resinoid bonded disks can be described via combined thermally and mechanically controlled mechanisms. The process of accelerated grain wear can be correlated with the rise in temperature at the grain-work interface in a manner predictable from the simple law of adhesive wear in combination with the theory of rate process. Experimental results are shown to confirm the theoretical interpretation.