This book captures the recent breakthroughs in subtractive manufacturing and difficult-to-machine, material-based, modern machining techniques. It illustrates various combinations of hybrid machining and super finishing, and outlines the critical area profile accuracy, high-precision machining, high tolerance, surface quality, chipping, and cracking for converting into new applications.Modern Hybrid Machining and Super Finishing Processes: Technology and Applications provides scientific and technological insights on subtractive manufacturing routes. It covers a wide range of micromachining parts, electronic components, metrological devices, and biomedical instruments on materials such as titanium, stainless steel, high-strength temperature-resistant alloys, fiber-reinforced composites, and ceramics, refractories, and other difficult-to-machine alloys. The book emphasizes machined surface accuracy and quality of surface, productivity, and automatization. It also covers creating complex, intricate, and complicated shapes for difficult-to-machine materials. The book goes on to offer an investigation on electrochemical discharge machining, abrasive-based nano-finishing, and rotary ultrasonic machining-based parametric combination, as well as discuss the latest trends in hybrid machining combined processes.This book is a firsthand reference for commercial organizations mimicking modern hybrid machining processes by targeting difficult-to-machine, materials-based applications. By capturing the current trends of today's manufacturing practices, this book becomes a one-stop resource for scholars, manufacturing professionals, engineers, and academic researchers.
