Laser-assisted grinding of reaction-bonded SiC

  • Luo X
  • Li Z
  • Chang W
  • et al.
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The article presents the development of a novel laser-assisted grinding (LAG) process to reduce surface roughness and subsurface damage in grinding reaction-bonded silicon carbide (RB-SiC). A thermal control approach is proposed to facilitate the process development, in which a two-temperature model (TTM) is applied to control the required laser power to thermal softening of RB-SiC prior to the grinding operation without melting the workpiece or leaving undesirable microstructural alteration. Fourier’s law is adopted to obtain the thermal gradient for verification. An experimental comparison of conventional grinding and LAG shows significant reduction of machined surface roughness (37%–40%) and depth of subsurface damage layer (22%–50.6%) using the thermal control approach under the same grinding conditions. It also shows high specific grinding energy 1.5 times that in conventional grinding at the same depth of cut, which accounts for the reduction of subsurface damage as it provides enough energy to promote ductile-regime material removal.

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Luo, X., Li, Z., Chang, W., Cai, Y., Sun, J., Ding, F., … Sun, Y. (2020). Laser-assisted grinding of reaction-bonded SiC. Journal of Micromanufacturing, 3(2), 93–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/2516598420965342

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