“…Due to the advantages in dealing with the micro-scale problems, the nonlinear deformation and the failure problems, DEM is widely used in the simulation of the machining process of brittle materials [30,36,92,105]. 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.…”