Рубрика: Life Cycle and Sustainability of Abrasive Tools

Environmental Aspects—Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Many different standards and methodologies exist to evaluate the environmental impacts of products, processes and manufacturing systems. The most commonly used method is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), including its variants process LCA, Economic Input-Output LCA and hybrid LCA [REIC10]. Reich-Weiser et al. [REIC10] discussed the differences between frameworks and sorted them into different spatial and […]

Case Study on Grit Size Choice

Grit size and grit size distribution affects tool manufacturing and tool use (see Sect. 2.8.1 “Grit Size”). Therefore, these grit characteristics provide a good case study on sustainability [LINK12c]. Grit size can be controlled by different stan­dardized methods, such as sieving and sedimentation (Sect. 2.9.1 “Grit Size Selection”). The user might want to consider the […]

Life Cycle and Sustainability of Abrasive Tools

This thesis was written mainly during my time as postdoc researcher at the Werkzeugmaschinenlabor (WZL) at the RWTH Aachen University, and at the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability (LMAS) at the University of California Berkeley. The research on the life cycle engineering of abrasive tools was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) […]

Hardness

Diamond density is about 3.52 g/cm3 depending on pureness. Diamond hardness and toughness are determined by crystal purity, regardless of size, shape, and genesis [BENE03]. The hardness of single crystal diamond is anisotropic depending on the crystal orientation (Fig. 2.16). This results from the different distances of the carbon atoms in different crystal planes. The […]