Yang Min

• Doctor at Qingdao University of Technology

Surface thermal damage in a difficult-to-process metal precision grinding workpiece has emerged as a technical bottleneck restricting machining quality. As an alternative to traditional pouring cooling, a green clean minimum-quantity lubrication technology still has defects, such as insufficient heat dissipation. The use of cryogenic air instead of...

Machining-induced damages encountered during the grinding of titanium alloys are a major setback for processing different components from these materials. Recent studies have shown that nanofluid (NF)-based minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) systems improved the machining lubrication and the titanium alloys’ machinability. In this work, the tribolo...

High-volume fraction silicon carbide particle-reinforced aluminum matrix (SiCp/Al) composites are crucial materials in the aerospace industry, requiring precision milling to ensure accurate mating surfaces. However, achieving low-damage machining of SiCp/Al remains challenging. Traditional dry machining methods often affect surface integrity, while...

Monitoring human physiological conditions using flexible, stretchable strain sensors is an effective approach to prevent and treat critical illnesses, emergencies, and infectious diseases. However, achieving ultralow detection limits, high sensitivity, and a wide detection range in a cost-effective manner is challenging. In this study, a strain sen...

The nickel-based high-temperature alloy GH4169 is the material of choice for manufacturing critical components in aeroengines, and electrostatic atomization minimum quantity lubrication (EMQL) milling represents a fundamental machining process for GH4169. However, the effects of electric field parameters, jet parameters, nozzle position, and millin...

SiC/Al composites are widely used in aerospace and other fields due to their excellent mechanical properties. For large-concentration composites, due to the extremely high proportion of SiC and the unstable interface between the two phases, the SiC particles are broken and detached during the processing, which makes the surface quality of the workp...

Since droplet collision with walls has become a research hotspot, scholars have conducted a large number of studies on the dynamic behavior of electrically neutral droplets colliding with dry walls. However, with the rapid development of electrostatic spray technology, there is an increasingly urgent need to study the dynamic process of collision b...

Functionally graded piezoelectric structures (FGPSs) have excellent electromechanical properties and are promising for engineering applications. However, the inhomogeneous material properties and piezoelectric effects create great difficulties in the mechanical analysis of the FGPSs. In this paper, a Hermite interpolation element-free Galerkin meth...

Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), which considers the cost, sustainability, flexibility, and quality, has been actively explored by scholars. Nanoadditive phases have been widely investigated as atomizing media for MQL, aimed at enhancing the heat transfer and friction reduction performance of vegetable-oil-based biolubricants. However, the indus...

Piezoelectric bionic fishtails have good flexibility, response speed, anti-interference ability, and have great application prospects in ocean exploration. However, the inherent drawbacks of the mechanical properties of traditional homogeneous piezoelectric materials significantly affect the propulsion performance and reliability of the piezoelectr...

Nanoparticle-enhanced coolants (NPECs) are increasingly used in minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) machining as a green lubricant to replace conventional cutting fluids to meet the urgent need for carbon emissions and achieve sustainable manufacturing. However, the thermophysical properties of NPEC during processing remain unclear, making it diffic...

Micro-grinding with a spherical grinding head has been deemed an indispensable method in high-risk surgeries, such as neurosurgery and spine surgery, where bone grinding has long been plagued by the technical bottleneck of mechanical stress-induced crack damage. In response to this challenge, the ultrasound-assisted biological bone micro-grinding n...

Bearings are pivotal components in mechanical systems, providing crucial support to rotating bodies. However, traditional bearings are susceptible to failure caused by friction and wear. This vulnerability is particularly pronounced in scenarios involving ultrahigh speeds and extreme conditions, necessitating the minimization of bearing losses and...

Minimizing the negative effects of the manufacturing process on the environment, employees, and costs while maintaining machining accuracy has long been a pursuit of the manufacturing industry. Currently, the nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) used in cutting and grinding has been studied as a useful technique for enhancing machinability...

Grinding is a crucial process in machining workpieces because it plays a vital role in achieving the desired precision and surface quality. However, a significant technical challenge in grinding is the potential increase in temperature due to high specific energy, which can lead to surface thermal damage. Therefore, ensuring control over the surfac...

Bearings are crucial transmission components that offer support to mechanical rotating bodies. Nevertheless, traditional bearing failure due to friction and wear more easily. In scenarios involving ultra-high speeds and extreme applications, minimizing bearing losses and enhancing performance becomes especially vital. Magnetic bearings, characteriz...

The increasing interest in wearable smart healthcare systems has sparked considerable attention toward flexible sensors owing to their high sensitivity and flexibility. However, these sensors still face challenges in terms of performance imbalances and instability. To address these issues, graphene-based conductive materials with exceptional mechan...

Conventional lubrication systems are used in grinding operations to reduce friction and defects produced during machining. Mineral-based oils, commonly used as conventional lubricants, were observed to produce greenhouse wastes that are hazardous to the environment. The minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) system, an eco-friendly, economical, and les...

Cutting fluid is crucial in ensuring surface quality and machining accuracy during machining. However, traditional mineral oil-based cutting fluids no longer meet modern machining’s health and environmental protection requirements. As a renewable, pollution-free alternative with excellent processing characteristics, vegetable oil has become an inev...

Grinding is an essential method for ensuring the machining accuracy and surface quality of difficult materials, such as aerospace titanium alloys. However, the deterioration of workpiece surface integrity due to thermal damage is the technical bottleneck of titanium alloy grinding. Therefore, a new enabling grinding technology for cryogenic air com...

Bone grinding is an essential and vital procedure in most surgical operations. Currently, the insufficient cooling capacity of dry grinding, poor visibility of drip irrigation surgery area, and large grinding force leading to high grinding temperature are the technical bottlenecks of micro-grinding. A new micro-grinding process called ultrasonic vi...

Aerospace aluminum alloy is the most used structural material for rockets, aircraft, spacecraft, and space stations. The deterioration of surface integrity of dry machining and the insufficient heat transfer capacity of minimal quantity lubrication have become the bottleneck of lubrication and heat dissipation of aerospace aluminum alloy. However,...

Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is a relatively efficient and clean alternative to flooding workpiece machining. Electrostatic atomization has the merits of small droplet diameter, high uniformity of droplet size, and strong coating, hence its superiority to pneumatic atomization. However, as the current research hotspot, the influence of jet pa...

Nanofluids are efficient heat transfer media that have been developed over the past 27 years and have been widely used in the electronic microchannel, engine, spacecraft, nuclear, and solar energy fields. With the high demand for efficient lubricants in manufacturing, the application of nanofluids in machining has become a hot topic in academia and...

Surface roughness has a significant influence on the mechanical properties and service life of a component. During face milling, surface roughness greatly varies in the tool step direction and can be controlled by using a surface roughness prediction model. However, the issues of accuracy and efficiency of surface roughness prediction models have n...

A high grinding temperature will cause thermal damage to a workpiece surface and deterioration of surface integrity, which is the bottleneck of grinding. The present grinding temperature theoretical model is based on grain homogeneity and the continuous heat source distribution in the grinding zone. However, the random change in interference betwee...

Too high grinding force will lead to a large increase in specific grinding energy, resulting in high temperature in grinding zone, especially for the aerospace difficult cutting metal materials, seriously affecting the surface quality and accuracy. At present, the theoretical models of grinding force are mostly based on the assumption of uniform or...

Metal cutting fluids (MCFs) under flood conditions do not meet the urgent needs of reducing carbon emission. Biolubricant-based minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is an effective alternative to flood lubrication. However, pneumatic atomization MQL has poor atomization properties, which is detrimental to occupational health. Therefore, electrostatic...

The tribological behavior of cutting is a decisive factor in changing the production cycle, cost, and quality of parts. Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) based on environmentally friendly biolubricants can convert contact conditions in cutting zones, but it cannot meet the manufacturing requirements of difficult-to-machine materials in the continu...

The defect suppression of titanium alloy disturbed by low thermal conductivity is an urgent problem in grinding. The existing green manufacturing processes such as Nanolubricant minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) and cryogenic air cooling are unsatisfactory due to insufficient cooling or lubrication performance. Cryogenic NMQL (CNMQL) is a new app...

Cutting fluid plays a cooling-lubrication role in the cutting of metal materials. However, the substantial usage of cutting fluid in traditional flood machining seriously pollutes the environment and threatens the health of workers. Environmental machining technologies, such as dry cutting, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), and cryogenic cooling...

Due to the stringent requirements of carbon emissions, traditional cutting using a large amount of mineral-based metal cutting fluid for lubrication no longer fulfilled the rigorous requirements of policies and standards. Nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication has been proven to be a new process to achieve clean manufacturing. However, due to adhes...

As a dielectric, biolubricant (vegetable oil) cannot maximize the efficiency of electrostatic atomization minimum quantity lubrication (EMQL). The lecithin-enhanced technology is expected to solve this technical bottleneck. The effects of lecithin on the electrophysiological properties of biolubricant (soybean oil) were investigated. Lecithin can i...

To eliminate the negative effect of traditional metal-working fluids and achieve sustainable manufacturing, the usage of nano-enhanced biolubricant (NEBL) is widely researched in minimum quantify lubrication (MQL) machining. It’s improved tool wear and surface integrity have been preliminarily verified by experimental studies. The previous review p...

Aluminum alloy is the main structural material of aircraft, launch vehicle, spaceship, and space station and is processed by milling. However, tool wear and vibration are the bottlenecks in the milling process of aviation aluminum alloy. The machining accuracy and surface quality of aluminum alloy milling depend on the cutting parameters, material...

Biological compact bone tissue is a typical hard-brittle material, which is extremely sensitive to high temperature. For the calculation of bone microgrinding temperature field, most of the known methods are based on the constant heat flux of the average tangential force without considering the ductile grinding characteristics of bone, leading to l...

In grinding, the convective heat transfer coefficient (CHTC) determines the heat transfer ratio and the grinding temperature, and it indirectly identifies the surface integrity. No effective method for calculating CHTC is available for aerosol cooling, and it still lacks the measuring equipment that accords with the actual condition of aerosol cool...

Machining of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) with less damage remains to be a challenge because of anisotropy and inhomogeneity issues. Flood cooling will reduce the mechanical properties of CFRPs due to its hygroscopicity, however, dry grinding will result in thermal damage and deterioration of surface integrity, which cause it not suitable...

Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is an emerging green and resource-saving machining technique jetting minute amount lubricants and gas after mixing and atomization. However, MQL development is restricted to mineral oils because of its undegradability and threat to the environment and human health. Vegetable oils can replace mineral oils as base o...

Nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) has better stability, higher thermal conductivity, and excellent lubrication performance compared with traditional flood lubrication. The heat transfer model and finite difference model were established to verify the feasibility of NMQL conditions in grinding cemented carbide. Based on them, the grindin...

Metal cutting fluids have a huge negative impact on human health and environmental ecology, thus posing a serious threat to the sustainable development of the global manufacturing industry. Meanwhile, turning processing is an important part of metal material removal processing, and achieving sustainable lubrication is a major problem that needs to...

Under the threat of serious environmental pollution and resource waste, sustainable development and green manufacturing have gradually become a new development trend. A new environmentally sustainable approach, namely, cryogenic air nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (CNMQL), is proposed considering the unfavorable lubricating characteristic of...

Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites are of high interest in the field of aerospace because of their extremely high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios. Dry processing has been widely applied due to the hygrothermal aging of CFRP using flood lubrication. However, severe conditions of dry machining lead to an abundance of...

Corundum abrasives with good chemical stability can be fabricated into various free abrasives and bonded abrasive tools that are widely used in the precision machining of various parts. However, these abrasives cannot satisfy the machining requirements of difficult-to-machine materials with high hardness, high strength, and strong wearing resistanc...

In nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) milling of aviation aluminum alloy, it is the bottleneck problem to adjust the position parameters (target distance, incidence angle, and elevation angle) of the nozzle to improve the surface roughness of milling, which has large and uncontrollable errors. In this paper, the influence law of milling...

Nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) is a resource-saving, environment-friendly, and efficient green processing technology. Cottonseed oil can form a strong lubricating film owing to its abundant saturated fatty acids and monounsaturated fatty acids, which have excellent lubricating properties. The physical and chemical properties of nanof...

Nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) is an emerging cleaner and sustainable technique. However, the effective immersion of nanofluids in the grinding zone in NMQL grinding limits the extensive application of this technique. Ultrasonic vibration can exert a pumping effect that injects nanofluids into the interface between the grinding wheel...

Workpiece surface integrity deterioration is a bottleneck in minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) grinding cemented carbide. However, nanofluids prepared by adding nanoparticles with excellent antifriction and antiwear properties achieve improved lubrication characteristics. In this study, a surface grinding experiment under four working conditions (...

To overcome environmental problems, nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) has been utilized as a burgeoning alternative technique to conventional flood machining, which consumes a large quantity of cutting fluid. Furthermore, spraying parameter optimization is a prerequisite of an effective NMQL grinding and a key to achieving a new sustain...

The removal of material in the ductile regime while improving machining efficiency is currently the technical bottleneck in grinding zirconia ceramics. Prediction models of minimum chip thickness (hmin) and ductile–brittle transition chip thickness (hd–b) were developed according to grinding mechanism. Results showed that both hmin and hd–b decreas...

To address the current bottleneck of debris formation mechanism in plastic removal for hard-brittle materials, a minimum chip thickness (h min ) model that considers lubrication conditions (represented by frictional angle β) is developed according to strain gradient, as well as geometry and kinematics analyses. Model results show that h min decreas...

Nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) technique has many technological and economic advantages in grinding operation. NMQL can improve grinding performance in terms of cooling and lubrication and is ecofriendly because it consumes a small amount of grinding fluid. Ultrasonic machining can improve grinding performance owing to its reciprocat...

Processing of Ti alloy is often accompanied with large frictions and high temperature. Nanofluids prepared by adding nanoparticles show good lubrication performance due to the excellent antifriction and antiwear of nanoparticles. The physicochemical properties of nanoparticles are important factors that influence the lubrication performance of nano...

CNTs are commonly used nanoparticles in NMQL for their excellent heat transfer enhancement performance. However, winding and conglobation are constraints against their tribological performance, these constraints can be solved by surfactants. However, the influences of surfactant type and dispersing mechanism on the dispersion effect of CNTs have no...

Nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) is one of the main modes of sustainable manufacturing. It is an environment-friendly, energy-saving, and highly efficient lubrication method. With the use of nanoparticles, the tribological properties of debris–tool and workpiece–tool interfaces will change. However, spectrum analyses of force and power...

Considering the poor lubricating effect of cryogenic air (CA) and inadequate cooling ability of nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL), this work proposes a new manufacturing technique cryogenic air nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (CNMQL). A heat transfer coefficient and a finite difference model under different grinding conditions we...

Sustainable development and green manufacturing are becoming an international consensus in the face of the threat of severe environmental pollution and waste of resources. Cryogenic air (CA) and nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (NMQL) are state-of-the-art green manufacturing technologies. However, the lubricating performance of cryogenic air...

Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is an efficient, green, and eco-friendly method of applying cutting fluids in machining processes. This study presents the processing characteristics of different vegetable oil-based nanofluid MQL for grinding various workpiece materials. The performance of three lubricant types (i.e., pure palm oil, MoS2 nanoflui...

As a non-edible, degradable, and environment-friendly crop product, castor oil can be used as lubricating oil in material processing. However, its high viscosity results in poor flowability, thereby limiting its industrial applications. Although experiments have revealed the excellent lubrication performance of castor/soybean oil mixture, the volum...

Numerous researchers made theoretical and experimental approaches for force prediction in surface grinding under dry condition. However, the combined effect of both material removal and plastic stacking on single-grain interference mechanics has not been reported yet. The main objective of the work presents to propose an single-grain interference m...

Nanoparticle jet mist cooling (NJMC) is an effective solution to prevent heat injuries in clinical neurosurgery bone grinding. A simulation study on temperature field of microscale bone grinding was performed to discuss the effect of nanoparticle size on heat convection during this cooling method by the dynamic heat flux density model. Such dynamic...

This study investigated the grinding temperature of minimum quantity lubricant cooling (MQLC) for heat transfer. Three typical workpiece materials, namely, 45 steel, Ni-based alloy, and nodular cast iron, were surface grinded. These materials are the most frequently used for mechanical processing. Palm oil with good lubrication and heat transfer pe...

Nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication is an environmental-friendly, resource-saving and sustainable process compared with traditional flood lubrication. Especially, it is widely applied in difficult-to-cutting material, such as Ti-6Al-4 V. However, optimized process parameters have not been obtained with considering grinding temperature, tangentia...

A study of microscale skull bone grinding temperature field under different cooling conditions is presented and discussed. Micro-grinding model, heat flux density model, convective heat transfer coefficient model and intra-workpiece heat conduction model are developed, based on which, a simulation study on microscale bone grinding temperature field...

An investigation into the effect of nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) on the temperatures in surface grinding is presented and discussed. Six types of nanoparticles, namely molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), zirconium dioxide (ZrO2), carbon nanotube (CNT), polycrystalline diamond, aluminum oxide (Al2O3), and silica dioxide (SiO2), are consider...

Numerous researchers have developed theoretical and experimental approaches to force prediction in surface grinding under dry conditions. Nevertheless, the combined effect of material removal and plastic stacking on grinding force model has not been investigated. In addition, predominant lubricating conditions, such as flood, minimum quantity lubri...

This study investigates the critical maximum undeformed equivalent chip thickness for ductile-brittle transition (DBhmax-e) of zirconia ceramics under different lubrication conditions. A DBhmax-e model is developed through geometry and kinematics analyses of ductile-mode grinding. Result shows that DBhmax-e decreases with increasing friction coeffi...

Vegetable oil is a low toxic, excellent biodegradable and renewable energy source used as an ideal lubricating base oil in machining. Castor oil exhibits good lubrication performance but poor mobility, which limits its application especially in precision grinding. The main objective of the work presented to obtain optimal mixed vegetable based-oil...

Palm oil was used as the base oil of minimum-quantity lubricant cooling (MQLC) grinding of Ni-based alloy. Eight nanofluids with different volume fractions of 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, and 4 % were prepared by using carbon nanotube (CNT) nanoparticles for the experiment on MQLC grinding of Ni-based alloy. Grinding force, grinding temperature, an...

This paper presents the lubricating properties of different vegetable-oil-based nanofluids through a comparative evaluation between frictional test and grinding experiment. Two series of experiments were performed. The first experiment aimed to prejudge the lubricating properties of different nanofluids via a frictional test, which simulated the in...