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A Review on Different Dielectric Fluids and Machining of Si3N4 and Al2O3 Composites via EDM

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The limited efficiency and lack of feasibility of traditional manufacturing processes (TMPs) in ceramic industry restrict their applications in the machining of the ceramic materials having high hardness and brittleness. The use of unconventional methods of manufacturing overcomes the constraints of the conventional processes and therefore finds an enormous application in the industrial sector. The present study primly focuses on the electrical discharge machining (EDM) of ceramic composites and reviews the different dielectric fluids that are being used in the modern machining, along with their effects on different EDM parameters like material removal rate (MRR), tool wear rate (TWR), surface roughness (SR), and surface hardness (SH) as well as the ability of EDM for machining the ceramic composites. It focuses on the main input parameters of EDM which influence the metal cutting procedure and discusses the machining of the ceramic materials like Al2O3- and Si3N4-based using EDM. The current study reveals that EDM is one of the best methods in machining the ceramic composites because of its high efficiency, high precision, and accuracy.

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The authors would like to express our sincere gratitude to Accendere KMS-CL Educate Ltd., New Delhi, for their valuable comments that led to substantial improvements on an earlier version of this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad, Haryana, India

    Kanav Bhatia, Ankit Singla, Anirudh Sharma & Shailesh Singh Sengar

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Bhatia, K., Singla, A., Sharma, A., Sengar, S.S., Selokar, A. (2019). A Review on Different Dielectric Fluids and Machining of Si3N4 and Al2O3 Composites via EDM. In: Shanker, K., Shankar, R., Sindhwani, R. (eds) Advances in Industrial and Production Engineering . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6412-9_57

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