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Machinability of ultrasonic vibration-assisted micro-grinding in biological bone using nanolubricant

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Bone grinding is an essential and vital procedure in most surgical operations. Currently, the insufficient cooling capacity of dry grinding, poor visibility of drip irrigation surgery area, and large grinding force leading to high grinding temperature are the technical bottlenecks of micro-grinding. A new micro-grinding process called ultrasonic vibration-assisted nanoparticle jet mist cooling (U-NJMC) is innovatively proposed to solve the technical problem. It combines the advantages of ultrasonic vibration (UV) and nanoparticle jet mist cooling (NJMC). Notwithstanding, the combined effect of multi parameter collaborative of U-NJMC on cooling has not been investigated. The grinding force, friction coefficient, specific grinding energy, and grinding temperature under dry, drip irrigation, UV, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), NJMC, and U-NJMC micro-grinding were compared and analyzed. Results showed that the minimum normal grinding force and tangential grinding force of U-NJMC micro-grinding were 1.39 and 0.32 N, which were 75.1% and 82.9% less than those in dry grinding, respectively. The minimum friction coefficient and specific grinding energy were achieved using U-NJMC. Compared with dry, drip, UV, MQL, and NJMC grinding, the friction coefficient of U-NJMC was decreased by 31.3%, 17.0%, 19.0%, 9.8%, and 12.5%, respectively, and the specific grinding energy was decreased by 83.0%, 72.7%, 77.8%, 52.3%, and 64.7%, respectively. Compared with UV or NJMC alone, the grinding temperature of U-NJMC was decreased by 33.5% and 10.0%, respectively. These results showed that U-NJMC provides a novel approach for clinical surgical micro-grinding of biological bone.

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Abbreviations

2D:

Two-dimensional

CNT:

Carbon nanotube

MQL:

Minimum quantity lubrication

NJMC:

Nanoparticle jet mist cooling

PEG400:

Polyethylene glycol 400

U-NJMC:

Ultrasonic vibration-assisted nanoparticle jet mist cooling

UV:

Ultrasonic vibration

a g :

Thickness of the undeformed chip

a p :

Grinding depth

A :

Axial vibration amplitude

b w :

Micro-grinding workpiece width

C :

Effective number of abrasive grains per unit area

D :

Injection distance

e s :

Specific grinding energy

f :

Frequency

F a :

Axial grinding force

F n :

Normal grinding force

F t :

Tangential grinding force

l 1 :

Contact arc length between the grinding rod and the workpiece material in normal grinding

l 2 :

Contact arc length between the grinding rod and the workpiece material in UV-assisted micro-grinding

n :

Spindle speed

P :

Air pressure

Q :

Liquid flow rate

r :

Radius of the abrasive

T :

Grinding temperature

v s :

Grinding tool linear speed

v w :

Feeding speed

α :

Nozzle angle

μ :

Coefficient of friction

μ dry, μ drip, μ MQL, μ NJMC, μ UV, and μ U-NJMC :

Friction coefficients of dry, drip, MQL, NJMC, UV, and U-NJMC grinding, respectively

θ :

Average cone half angle of the abrasive grains

φ :

Initial phase of ultrasonic vibration

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Acknowledgement

This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51905289 and 51975305), the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2020YFB2010500), the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China (Grant Nos. ZR2022QE159, ZR2020KE027, ZR2020ME158, and ZR2019PEE008), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2021M701810), the Innovation Talent Supporting Program for Postdoctoral Fellows of Shandong Province, China (Grant No. SDBX2020012), and the Qingdao Postdoctoral Researchers Applied Research Project Funding, China (Grant No. A2020-072).

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    Yuying Yang & Changhe Li

  2. College of Physics, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Min Yang

  3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, USA

    Runze Li

  4. Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, 27272, United Arab Emirates

    Zafar Said

  5. Mechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

    Hafiz Muhammad Ali

  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, IK Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, 144603, India

    Shubham Sharma

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Yang, Y., Yang, M., Li, C. et al. Machinability of ultrasonic vibration-assisted micro-grinding in biological bone using nanolubricant. Front. Mech. Eng. 18, 1 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11465-022-0717-z

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