Advanced microstructures and its production through cutting and grinding.

Microstructures can be used to improve the tribological performance of surfaces, to reduce flow losses or even to store information. In order to assure the functionality of these surfaces, the relationships between the microstructure designs and the manufacturing processes have to be understood. In this paper, the relevant design criteria for three advanced microstructure applications and the proposed manufacturing solutions as well as the resulting surface properties are discussed. In addition, the mechanisms during chip formation are identified and the output parameters of several machining experiments on the different workpieces are evaluated.