“…The processing of brittle materials such as ceramic, rock and glass are generally processed in precision and ultra-precision, especially in grinding [106][107][108][109] and polishing [110][111][112]. In addition to traditional machining methods such as cutting, milling and grinding, there are also some emerging auxiliary machining methods, such as: abrasive water-jet machining [113,114], laser-assisted machining [13,92,106,108,[115][116][117][118][119][120][121], ultrasonic machining [122][123][124][125][126][127][128], electron beam machining [129][130][131][132][133], chemical machining [112,134], electro-chemical machining [134] and so on. In the current literatures about the machining simulation of hard-brittle materials through DEM and its coupling method, a lot of works focus on studying the material removal mechanism, crack propagation, machining quality, and the optimization of the machining parameters.…”