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
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 (UK). He is also former Director of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Tribology Research Laboratory.
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, Wako, Saitama, Japan.