Title: Characterisation of the tool wear during ductile polishing of ceramic tiles using morphological space

Authors: Fábio José Pinheiro Sousa; Jörg Seewig; Rubens Maribondo Do Nascimento; Cátia Chiamulera; Orestes Estevam Alarcon; Walter Lindwolf Weingärtner

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems – FBK, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Measurement and Sensor-Technology – MTS, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany ' Department of Material Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, CEP 59078-900 – Natal – RN, Brazil ' Embraer, Av. Alcides Cagliari, 2281 B-200, 18606-855, Botucatu – SP, Brazil ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, P.O. Box 476, CEP 88040-900 – Florianópolis – SC, Brazil ' Department of Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, P.O. Box 476, CEP 88040-900 – Florianópolis – SC, Brazil

Abstract: The present work is focused on the wear of the abrasive tools during the industrial polishing process of porcelain stoneware tiles, aiming to extend the validity of using morphological space to quantify the wear when very fine abrasive tools are used. In such morphological space, the horizontal and vertical axes are respectively the skewness (S_k) and the kurtosis (K) of the distribution of heights taken from several surface profiles. Despite the existence of an intrinsic interaction between S_k and K, the approach enables the sequence of geometrical changes suffered by the fickert surface to be quantitatively evaluated. The experimental points obtained were nearly aligned and with a negative slope, just as expected for abrasive wear. Implausibly, the results for fine abrasive fickerts was much more scattered than for those with coarse abrasive particles found in literature.

Keywords: fickerts; surface characterisation; porcelain stoneware tiles; industrial polishing; abrasive particles; silicon carbide; morphological space; surface topography; abrasive wear; tool wear; ductile polishing; ceramic tiles.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAT.2016.078293

International Journal of Abrasive Technology, 2016 Vol.7 No.3, pp.216 - 225

Received: 26 Sep 2015
Accepted: 04 Dec 2015
Published online: 14 Aug 2016 *

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