Nontraditional energy-assisted mechanical machining of difficult-to-cut materials and components in aerospace community: a comparative analysis

G Zhao, B Zhao, W Ding, L **n, Z Nian… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Atomic-scale material removal and deformation mechanism in nanoscratching GaN

J Zhao, W Li, S Chen, YS Lan, M Wiercigroch… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Gallium nitride (GaN) is an important third-generation semiconductor material. However, due
to its high hardness, high brittleness and anisotropy, the material removal efficiency of GaN …

Modelling of polyurethane polishing pad surface topography and fixed-point polished surface profile

Z Wang, Z Wang, Y Liang, F Meng, Z Cui, T Chen… - Tribology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Polishing process, is an important process of ensuring surface quality and precision.
However, it is difficult to achieve quantitative material removal and polish to target surface …

Molecular dynamics simulation and experimental study of the material machinability characteristics and crack propagation mechanisms for fused silica double …

J Zhao, S Chen, W Li, Y Lan, A Khudoley, Q Zhang… - Tribology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fused silica is a high-purity, hard and brittle, difficult-to-machine amorphous material that is
widely used in the aerospace, optical instruments, semiconductors, microelectronics and …

No-impact trajectory design and fabrication of surface structured CBN grinding wheel by laser cladding remelting method

Z Wang, J Li, Q Liu, L Chen, J Lv, T Yu, J Zhao - Optics & Laser Technology, 2025 - Elsevier
The structured grinding wheels have a specially designed macro or microstructure on the
surface, with a relatively low average grinding force and temperature in the cutting zone and …

Fast-tool-servo-controlled shear-thickening micropolishing

ZH Zhu, P Huang, S To, LM Zhu, Z Zhu - International Journal of Machine …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polishing-based post-processing is essential for removing the undesired surface diffraction
on diamond-turned microstructured surfaces that is enhanced by periodic tool marks. To …

Ultrasonic coupled abrasive jet polishing (UC-AJP) of glass-based micro-channel for micro-fluidic chip

J Ge, Y Ren, C Li, Z Li, S Yan, P Tang, X Xu… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The efficiency of abrasive jet polishing (AJP) is relatively low for glass-based micro-
channels, and an ultrasonic coupled AJP (UC-AJP) approach was thus proposed. The fluid …

Enhanced machinability of aluminium-based silicon carbide by non-resonant vibration-assisted magnetorheological finishing

Y Gu, Z Li, J Lin, X Zhou, Z Xu, W Zhou, S Zhang… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aluminium-based silicon carbides (SiCp/Al) have been widely used due to their inherent
unique physical and mechanical properties. However, improving the surface quality is …

Material removal mechanism in and experiments of electrorheological polishing of foldable intraocular lenses at low temperatures

C Fan, X Wang, K Liu, Y Chen, F Liang, Z Wang… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
The traditional method of manufacturing foldable acrylate intraocular lenses (IOLs) involves
injection molding and ultraprecision diamond turning. Due to the lack of in-depth research …

Profile prediction for ultrasonic vibration polishing of alumina ceramics

F Meng, T Yu, M Wiercigroch, Z Wang, Z Cui… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic-assisted polishing methods are widely used for the precision processing of hard
and brittle materials such as glass and ceramics due to their excellent polishing …