Abstract
Although electrical discharge machining (EDM) is one of the first established non-conventional machining processes, it still finds many applications in the modern industry, due to its capability of machining any electrical conductive material in complex geometries with high dimensional accuracy. The current study presents an experimental investigation of ED machining aluminum alloy Al5052. A full-scale experimental work was carried out, with the pulse current and pulse-on time being the varying machining parameters. The polishing and etching of the perpendicular plane of the machined surfaces was followed by observations and measurements in optical microscope. The material removal rate (MRR), the surface roughness (SR), the average white layer thickness (AWLT), and the heat affected zone (HAZ) micro-hardness were calculated. Through znalysis of variance (ANOVA), conclusions were drawn about the influence of machining conditions on the EDM performances. Finally, semi empirical correlations of MRR and AWLT with the machining parameters were calculated and proposed.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering,Control and Optimization,Mechanical Engineering,Computer Science (miscellaneous),Control and Systems Engineering
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