**Author details**

Yufeng Fan

136 Tungsten Carbide – Processing and Applications

**6. Conclusions** 

confirmed.

**Figure 20.** SEM image of the ground tungsten carbide steel workpiece

micro-scale workpiece less than 100�m also be designed and made.

components. This work will be detailed in a future report.

Using ultrasonic vibration shoe centerless grinding technique to fabricate microscale tungsten carbide steel cylindrical workpiece was investigated. An experimental apparatus was modified by installing fine feed and adjustment mechanisms, and the ultrasonic vibration shoe used in experimental grinding was designed and made especially. The tungsten carbide steel cylindrical workpiece with 0.6mm in the original diameter and 15mm in the length was ground with a diamond grinding wheel. As a result, a microscale tungsten carbide steel cylindrical workpiece of around 60μm in diameter and 15mm in length, the aspect ratio of which was over 250. The validity of the new microscale tungsten carbide steel cylindrical workpiece using ultrasonic vibration shoe centerless grinding technique is

For a new microscale tungsten carbide steel cylindrical workpiece technology, it is further required to investigate influencing factors, such as the workpiece geometrical arrangement, and ultrasonic vibration amplitude how to affect the machining accuracy, i.e., workpiece roundness. The more fine adjustment mechanism and the measurement rig suitable for

Future work will focus on further developing this new technique in terms of the inuence of grinding conditions, such as the workpiece geometrical conguration(φ, γ), on machining accuracy,i.e., workpiece roundness. To this end, it is essential to rst develop a roundness measurement method for microscale components less than100μm in diameter since there is, at present, no commercially available measurement rig suitable for such microscale *School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering Zhejiang, University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, China* 
