The aerospace community widely uses difficult-to-cut materials, such as titanium alloys, high-
temperature alloys, metal/ceramic/polymer matrix composites, hard and brittle materials, and …

Gallium nitride crystal is a typical difficult-to-machine material due to its distinct anisotropy,
high brittleness, and high hardness. The molecular dynamics simulations of traditional …

The complexity of the interaction between the workpiece and abrasives, the characterisation
difficulty of the strain-rate effect, and the analytical difficulty of brittle-ductile coexistence …

With the continuous development of modern industrial technology, hard and brittle materials
are widely used in semiconductors, precision instruments, space optics, biomedicine and …

Laser-assisted machining (LAM) is regarded as a useful technique which can process
ceramic materials without damage and efficiently. This work reported a study on the …

Monocrystalline AlN is a hard-brittle material. Thus, much focus has been on finding ways to
treat it efficiently while minimizing damage. This work uses the molecular dynamics …

The ultra-precision grinding technology based on a workpiece self-rotational principle is
extensively used for silicon wafer thinning in the chip post-processing. Nevertheless, owing …

Zirconia ceramics are widely used in aerospace, precision machinery, electronics, and
biomedical fields because of their high temperature resistance, wear resistance, strong …

The requirements for machining large size and high precision optical components are
increasing with the rapid development of optical systems. In this paper, the process …

The fused silica ceramic matrix composite (SiO 2f/SiO 2) is characterized as one of the most
promising materials in radar radomes and wave-transparent antenna windows. However …