Study on strengthened layer of workpiece in prestress dry grinding

The prestress dry grinding which combines with prestress grinding and surface strengthening is an innovative approach to substitute conventional grinding process. The residual stress and the thickness of strengthened layer have an important effect on surface performance of workpiece. In order to analyze the effect mechanisms of prestress on residual stress and thickness of strengthened layer, experiment and simulation are carried on for 45 steel. The result of prestress dry grinding experiment shows that the grains in the strengthened layer are refined with increase of prestress. The thickness of strengthened layer tends to decrease first and then increase with increase of prestress. The simulation model of temperature field is created. The effect of temperature field on the thickness of strengthened layer and different grinding parameters especially the prestress on temperature field are analyzed. Then, the relationship between prestress and residual stress on different directions are analyzed. The variation curve of residual stress shows that tensile residual stress can transform to compressive residual stress on the surface of workpiece by controlling the prestress. Besides, compressive residual stress increase first and then decrease with the increase of depth.