Objective In industrial practice,judging precision parts on their geometrical accuracy alone is increasingly seen as inadequate.The demand for consideration of the entire pattern of loads acting on a components imposes new requirements on the microstructure of the workpiece surface zone in terms of thermal damage avoidance and a defined residual stress state,influenced predominantly by the grinding process used to finish the component.The objective must therefore be party to match specific component properties to the expected stresses and partly to assure high process reliability.To thisend,the project aims at development of an intelligent high-speed grinding system based on an improved high-speed grinding machine for small grinding wheel diameters (ds=250mm)and modern sensor systems.The advantages of high-speed grinding technology and the superhard cutting material CBN will be exploited and enhanced to cover a higher range of cutting speeds,opening the way to lower grinding forces and greater process reliability through reduced grit wear.Significant project objectives include the development of an innovative system combining a dressable grinding wheel and matched dresser roll for cutting speeds up to vc=250m/s with an innovative monitoring system,capable for example of detecting changes in work material properties due to grinding burn.These capacibilities will be assimilated in a control algorithm and integrated in an intelligent machine control designed for defined influencing of workpiece surface-zone properties during the grinding process. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors Programme(s) FP3-BRITE/EURAM 2 - Specific programme (EEC) of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 2.1.3 - Maintainability and reliability Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator TACCHELLA MACCHINE SPA Address Regione sant'anna 15016 Cassine Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all DIAMANT BOART SA Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address Avenue du pont de luttre 74 1190 Brussels See on map Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Steinbachstraße 53b 52074 Aachen See on map Robert Bosch GmbH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address 70001 Stuttgart See on map WALTER DITTEL GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Erpftinger strasse 36 Landsberg am lech See on map WASSERHYDRAULIK GmbH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address H rte 6 7951 Ingoldingen See on map