Model development of flexible disk grinding process

A flexible disk grinding process model was developed based on the dynamic r elationship proposed by Kurfess and the influence of the major system param eters which potentially affect the grinding process was studied. Due to the process complexities, several new parameters were assumed to be kinematica lly dependent on the geometric layouts of the process. Different process st ages had been defined depending on the kinematic relationships between the grinding disk and workpiece. A trend of depth of cut was simulated using th e proposed model and compared with the empirically measured data in two dim ension. Due to a poor prediction capability of the first model, a modified model was proposed and a better performance has been proved to reveal a clo ser description of processed surface quality. Also a deflection length has been verified using a different analytical approach.