The Manufacturing and Evaluation of the Cutting Performance of Metal Bonded cBN Grinding Wheel by Electroplating Process in the Surface Grinding of P18 Steel

This study presents a method of manufacturing the metal-bonded cBN grinding wheel by electroplating and the initial research results on the cutting performance of fabricated grinding wheels in the grinding of high-speed steel P18. The research results reveal that using the electroplating process with Watt’s solution, a layer of cBN abrasive particles can be strongly formed on the surface of the grinding wheel. The experimental surface grinding on the steel P18 shows that the fabricated grinding wheel has good machinability, resulting in the grinding wheel’s durability for up to 130 min at cutting conditions with V = 30 m/s, S = 300 mm/min, and grinding depth t = 5 ÷ 10 µm.