Grinding process optimization with application of simulation system

The author of this paper undertook a study on developing algorithms and programs for complex simulation of precision grinding process. The developed models of grinding processes reveals features which enables designing a new models of grinding tools with optimal grains shape and size, and its orientation on the grinding tool surface. The optimization process is feasible due to possibility of the models to carry out the simulation within a vast range of process parameters variability and exact gathering data concerning individual contact of grains. The innovation solution of presented models is based on isolation of individual grains during the simulation process and analyzing the phenomena in the grinding zone in relation to single grain. The most significant analyzes concern: the grain activity and its load, the average cut layers, flotation of single grain depth of cut along the grinding zone, and the influence of grains shape, size and arrangement on aforementioned phenomena.