Table of Contents

Part One: Science of abrasive machining and tribology (introduction)
1. Abrasives
Bahman Azarhoushang
2. Abrasive tools
Bahman Azarhoushang
3. Abrasive machining processes
Bahman Azarhoushang
4. Tribosystems of abrasive machining processes
Amir Daneshi and Bahman Azarhoushang

Part Two: Principles of abrasive machining processes
5. Kinematics of bonded abrasive machining processes
Ali Zahedi and Bahman Azarhoushang
6. Material removal mechanisms of bonded abrasive machining (forces, friction, and energy)
Bahman Azarhoushang and Mohammadali Kadivar
7. Contact mechanics
Bahman Azarhoushang and Ali Zahedi
8. Grinding wheel macrodesign and microtopography
Bahman Azarhoushang
9. Grinding tool conditioning
Bahman Azarhoushang and Heike Kitzig-Frank
10. Principles of grinding processes
Bahman Azarhoushang and Heike Kitzig-Frank
11. Cutting temperature and energy partition in grinding
Mohammadali Kadivar and Bahman Azarhoushang
12. Kinematics and material removal mechanisms of loose abrasive machining
Mohammadali Kadivar and Bahman Azarhoushang

Part Three: Tool wear, induced surface integrity of workpiece material, and machineability of materials
13. Mechanisms of tool wear
Bahman Azarhoushang and Amir Daneshi
14. Thermal aspects of abrasive machining processes
Bahman Azarhoushang and Mohammadali Kadivar
15. Workpiece surface roughness
Bahman Azarhoushang and Amir Daneshi
16. Machineability of materials
Amir Daneshi and Bahman Azarhoushang

Part Four: Process fluids and tribochemistry of abrasive machining
17. Process fluids for abrasive machining
Bahman Azarhoushang
18. Fluid delivery
Bahman Azarhoushang
19. Tribochemistry of abrasive machining
Ali Zahedi and Bahman Azarhoushang

About the Author

Bahman Azarhoushang has been a Professor of Mechanical and Medical Engineering at Furtwangen University (Germany) since 2013, where he also serves as the Head of the Center for Excellence in Machining. There he has access to various modern CNC machine tools and measuring devices. He has published more than 160 publications in various languages (with more than 60 publications in peer-reviewed journals) and lectured at numerous national and international conferences. He has authored several books and patents in the field of abrasive and precision machining. He is the editor of various international journals and co-authored the 3rd edition of ‘Tribology and Fundamentals of Abrasive Machining Processes’ (Elsevier). He teaches courses in Manufacturing Engineering, Machine Tools, Production Metrology, and Precision Manufacturing. His main research areas are conditioning (mechanical and nonmechanical dressing) and grinding (high-speed, high-efficiency grinding; nonconventional grinding), precision machining, tribology, innovative tools, the creation of extremely fine surfaces and structures, and process optimization. Ioan D. Marinescu is Professor and Director of the Precision Micromachining Center at The University of Toledo, Ohio, USA, and CEO of Advanced Manufacturing Solutions, LLC. His research interests include manufacturing processes, grinding, tribology, advanced materials, and machining of brittle materials. W. Brian Rowe is Consulting Director and Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK. He is also former Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Tribology Research Laboratory. Professor Rowe is a widely respected researcher in the fields of tribology and grinding. He has authored many books on grinding and grinding machine technology, also on bearing analysis and design. Boris Dimitrov is a Consulting Engineer in mechanics and chemistry, former Chief Scientist of the Romanian Research Institute of Applied Mechanics, and a former member of the Romanian Institute for Precision Mechanics in Bucharest. Hitoshi Ohmori is Chief Scientist at the Materials Fabrication Laboratory, RIKEN, Wakō, Saitama, Japan.