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Micro-EDM Drilling

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Micro-electrical Discharge Machining Processes

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Micro-EDM drilling becomes an important fabrication process for several different industrial applications. Micro-EDM drilling provides comparative advantages over conventional mechanical micro-drilling process owing to its capability of machining difficult-to-cut materials. This chapter provides a concise overview of micro-EDM drilling process. It presents working principle of the micro-EDM drilling as well as both operating and performance parameters along with some important applications. This chapter also covers micro-EDM drilling for difficult-to-cut materials such as steel alloys, Ti alloys and Ni alloys.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    S. N. B. Oliaei

  2. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA

    Muhammad P. Jahan

  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Asma Perveen

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aliah University, Kolkata, India

    Golam Kibria

  2. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA

    Muhammad P. Jahan

  3. Department of Production Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

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Oliaei, S.N.B., Jahan, M.P., Perveen, A. (2019). Micro-EDM Drilling. In: Kibria, G., Jahan, M., Bhattacharyya, B. (eds) Micro-electrical Discharge Machining Processes. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3074-2_1

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