Experimental Study on Slicing of Sapphire with Fixed Abrasive Diamond Wire Saw

Experimental study on slicing of sapphire with fixed
abrasive diamond wire saw was conducted in this paper. The process
parameters were optimized through orthogonal experiment of three
factors and four levels. The effects of wire speed, feed speed and
tension pressure on the surface roughness were analyzed. Surface
roughness in cutting direction and feed direction were both detected.
The results show that feed speed plays the most significant role on the
surface roughness of sliced sapphire followed by wire speed and
tension pressure. The optimized process parameters are as follows:
wire speed 1.9 m/s, feed speed 0.187 mm/min and tension pressure
0.18 MPa. In the end, the results were verified by analysis of variance.

• Mengjun Zhang
• Yuli Sun
• Dunwen Zuo
• Chunxiang Xie
• Chunming Zhang

• Fixed abrasive
• diamond wire saw
• slicing
• sapphire
• orthogonal experiment.

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