Simulation of Part Surface Residual Stress Based on Grind-Hardening Process

Grind-hardening is a new technology for steel parts surface enhancing which uses thermal and mechanical composite effects on the parts in the grinding process. During the process, the workpiece surface generates hardened layer which improves the surface quality. As a key performance indicator of measuring the part surface quality, the residual stress of the hardened layer affects the strength, fatigue life and corrosion performance of the part directly. Therefore, the study of residual stress in hardened layer plays an important role in the effective control of hardened layer quality. First, grinding temperature field is analysed for studying the distribution characteristics of surface residual stress after grind-hardening process. Then, different grinding parameters an effect on the temperature field is studied by establishing the mathematical model and the heat transfer model of the grinding zone temperature field. Furthermore, combined with the grinding force generated in the grinding process, the thermo-mechanical coupling analysis with finite element method is adopted to obtain the residual stress and its distribution of the part. Also, the influence mechanism of the part residual stress formation is revealed.