Yaogang Wang

Experimental research on microscale grinding temperature under different nanoparticle jet minimum quantity cooling

ABSTRACT To solve the limited cooling capacity of drip cooling technique in current clinical grinding orthopedic surgery, this paper carried out a nanoparticle jet minimum quantity cooling grinding experiment by using hydroxyapatite, SiO2, Fe2O3, carbon nanotubes nanofluids. The mass fraction of each nanofluids was 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, 10%, respectively. Grinding temperature during the grinding process was measured, and results show that the temperature peak of bone micro-grinding isn’t always proportional to the mass fraction of nanofluids. The measured temperature peak shows an inversely proportional relationship with the mass fraction of nanofluids within a certain mass fraction range, but a proportional relationship beyond this mass fraction range. Such a critical mass fraction varies when using different types of nanoparticles. Combined with heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids, the influence law of nanofluids type and concentration on grinding temperature was disclosed from the rheological properties of nanofluids and the micromechanisms of nanoparticles in the grinding zone. The bigger the mass fraction, the more easily it displays rheological properties. As for hydroxyapatite, whose length-diameter ratio is high and for SiO2 and CNTs, whose hardness values are high, they more easily display shear thinning and shear thickening, and the effect of rheological properties on temperature is obvious.