ABSTRACT
Grind-hardening or grind-hardening process is considered as a hybrid process, which can be employed for the simultaneous surface hardening and grinding of metal components, thus reducing the number of steps of the total manufacturing procedure, along with the disadvantages, which are related to each of those steps. Specifically, this process can be conducted in the same machine tool, using the same setup. Grind-hardening process is based on the control of the amount of heat produced by the process itself, which leads to a localized heating of the workpiece and a subsequent increase in the surface roughness through a martensitic transformation.
