Рубрика: Life Cycle and Sustainability of Abrasive Tools

Further Analyses

Ceramographic material analysis helps to understand and qualify the grinding wheel structure by picture analysis [KLOM86, LINE92]. However, samples from the abrasive layer have to be cut and prepared by embedding and polishing. Additional element analyses unveil material composition and chemical reactions during the tool production process [LINE92, p. 39 f.]. Back pressure is a […]

Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA)

Companies start to include Corporate Social Responsibility into their corporate culture [MCCL10]. Traditionally, lower need levels of people were regarded, such as food, health and safety, but in the future the social aspects will likely be extended to higher levels such as worker satisfaction, self-esteem, etc. [HUTC10]. Societal aspects of product or process assessment include […]

Sustainability Case Studies

8.1 Case Study on Conventional Abrasives Versus Superabrasives for Vitrified Bonded Tools The user can decide between conventional tools with corundum or silicon carbide or superabrasive tools with diamond or cubic boron nitride. Not only do the tools have different performance profiles, but also different embodied energies, which is important for accounting manufacturing energy to […]

Abrasives

Look at this small grit, this tiny grain, so small one must rub hundreds of them between finger and thumb to feel their sharpness. Insignificant little grits and easily slighted in our sophisticated technological world, but without this small fragment of abrasive, transformed, when viewed under a microscope, into jagged heroic blocks — without these […]

Thermal, Electric and Magnetic Properties

2.8.1.5 Effect on Tool Production High sintering temperatures over 1300 °C can occur in manufacturing of vitrified bonded tools. In particular, diamond features low thermal wear resistance in air, which forced manufacturers to develop special low-temperature sintered bonds and to apply inert atmospheres [LINK15]. Electric and magnetic properties are important for electro-plated bonds because they […]