Abrasive water jet machining (AWJM) has emerged as a sophisticated, non-thermal material removal process distinguished by its utilisation of a high-pressure water stream combined with abrasive ...

JEC Europe 2012 – The development of repair procedures for composite structures is becoming a major industrial issue. Classical machining processes using hand-held tools offer high adaptability but ...

Grinding, or abrasive machining, is the process of removing metal in the form of minute chips by the action of irregularly shaped abrasive particles. These particles may be in bonded wheels, coated ...

Chemical mechanical polishing/planarization (CMP) is a technique extensively used throughout the microelectronics industry to smooth surfaces of a substrate by utilizing a mixture of chemical and ...