The trial construction of ultrasonic grinding equipment and the machining characteristics. Study on high efficient grinding for brittle materials. (1st report)

As a basic study to establish high efficient machining processes of brittle materials such as fine ceramics, the trial construction of an ultrasonic grinding machine is done and the machining characteristics of this equipment is considered with soda glass. Because of high stock removal rate in ultrasonic grinding, this method proved to be efficient for brittle materials. The stock removal rate becomes higher in accordance with the increase of loading weight, amplitude of ultrasonic, wheel speed and so on.