Manufacture of tips for diamond burnishing and dressing probes for abrasive wheels with a diamond composition thermal material AKTM®

A thermally sound composite material, consisting of polycrystalline diamond and silicon carbide, namely the AKTM® aggregate, was developed at the Institute for Superhard Materials of the National Academy of Ukraine. Its improved physical and mechanical properties make it suitable for a wide range of material removal operations. In the present paper the manufacture and the performance of the material on industrial applications are discussed.