Sustainable manufacturing technology should aim for low energy consumption, because of the necessary for carbon neutrality demand. In this study, grinding process out-puts such as grinding force, grinding force distribution, surface roughness are experimentally investigated in one-pass face grinding test, using trial-manufactured grinding wheels with varying base metal tooth thicknesses. Under a constant material removal rate, high feed rate grinding resulted in both lower peak and broader grinding force distribution on the wheel working surface, leading to reduce both energy consumption and CO2 discharge. However, ground surface roughness of workpiece increased with higher feed rates. Additionally, while wheel working surface was given a slightly concave downward shape, surface roughness becomes smaller when using grinding wheel with thinner wheel bottom thicknesses. It is investigating that the reasons for this phenomenon from investigation of bearing-curve focused on both protrusion height of grain and abrasive grain distribution density on grinding wheel working surface.
Fujiwara et al. (Wed,) studied this question.