This Special Issue on the Latest Advances in Grinding Technology will highlight state-of-the-art advances in grinding technology. It is known that the grinding manufacturing process is the most expensive and costly operation in manufacturing; it is an operation that is difficult to avoid with respect to the manufacturing of hard materials and in the production of complex three-dimensional shapes. This Special Issue will cover the following avenues: The use of nanotechnology in grinding operations; The use of neural networks and artificial intelligence in optimizing the grinding process; The use of ultrasound wave technology during the process of grinding; The new techniques in dressing operations for expensive diamond and other highly advanced grinding wheels; The latest techniques and investigations in coolant usage and operations; Ultra-precision grinding operations; Latest techniques for in-process grinding monitoring to achieve high-precision, high-efficiency, and low-cost operations; Optical and aero-mechanical profiling of grinding surface topography profiling; Process modeling and theoretical background of the heat transfer aspects of the grinding process.
Keywords: Ultra-precision Grinding; Nanotechnology in grinding operation; Surface profiling techniques; In-process grinding monitoring operations; Artificial intelligence usage in grinding-process modeling techniques.