This book presents a scientific study covering all issues related to the development and assessment of the functional properties of superhard grinding wheels with a metal bond. Abrasive grinding, especially with superhard grinding wheels, is still the basic method for efficient and accurate shaping of workpieces, especially from materials with high hardness and durability. Meeting the high requirements placed on grinding processes, with regard to obtaining high dimensional-shape accuracy and the desired quality of the surface layer as well as repeatability of grinding results, requires the use of rational methods for shaping the cutting surface of grinding wheels (CSGW) in dressing processes. Individual chapters of the monograph include

. Characteristics of superhard grinding wheels including properties of superhard abrasive materials, metal binders, construction, and marking of technical characteristics of grinding wheels and areas of their application,

. Parameters and methods for assessing the performance properties of superhard grinding wheels, including direct and indirect assessment parameters and economic aspects of assessing the dressing of superhard grinding wheels,

. Characteristics of dressing methods for superhard grinding wheels, including conventional methods and erosive dressing methods. The erosive dressing methods include dressing with a high-pressure stream of liquids, liquids and abrasives, laser dressing and electrochemical, electroerosive and hybrid methods.

. Results of own research on electrochemical and electroerosion dressing processes, including mathematical modeling of these dressing processes and experimental research.

The book meets the needs of both scientific and technical staff, providing knowledge about modern methods of shaping CSGW of superhard grinding wheels. It will be an important reference in the libraries of technical universities as a research aid for students, technical staff, and research and teaching staff.

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Associate Professor Marcin Golabczak, D.Sc., Ph.D., Eng., was born in Lódz, Poland, in 1975. Since 2018, he is the head of the Department of Production Engineering at the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Engineering of the Lodz University of Technology. He is an author or co-author of over 120 scientific publications (Springer, Wiley, Elsevier, MDPI). He is also the author of chapters in 6 monographs and academic textbooks in English (Springer) and 15 in Polish. The author cooperates with the industry and, as part of this cooperation, he has completed over 20 technical works, including 10 opinions on innovation. He actively participated in over 40 foreign conferences (DSL, ACEX, DIAMOND, and CIRP) and 35 domestic conferences (NSOS, EM, and SNOE). He performed 70 reviews of articles in foreign scientific journals and 20 in domestic ones. He prepared approximately 100 reviews of diploma theses.