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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2013
Saint-gobain Abrasives, Inc., Worcester, MA (US);
Saint-gobain Abrasifs, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, FR;
Srinivasan Ramanath, Holden, MA (US);
Kenneth A. Saucier, Leicester, MA (US);
Rachana Upadhyay, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Cong Wang, Evanston, IL (US);
Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., Worcester, MA (US);
Saint-Gobain Abrasifs, Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, FR;
Abstract
An abrasive article configured to grind a workpiece having a fracture toughness of less than about 6 MPa·m ½ includes a body comprising abrasive particles contained within a bond material comprising a metal, wherein the body comprises a ratio of V/Vof at least about 1.3, wherein Vis a volume percent of abrasive particles within a total volume of the body and Vis a volume percent of bond material within the total volume of the body, and wherein the abrasive particles have an average particle size of 1 to 45 microns.