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Selective Etching of Aluminium 6068 Using Photochemical Machining

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Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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Photochemical machining (PCM) is one of the non-conventional machining processes that produces stress-free and burr-free components. It can be employed as micromachining manufacturing process to produce microsized components. This paper focuses on the selective etching of aluminium 6068 alloy using ferric chloride as an etchant. The primary aim of present work is to perform selective etching with greater accuracy. The input parameters/control parameters considered are etchant concentration, etching time and etching temperature. The performance measures have been chosen as material removal rate (MRR), edge deviation and undercut. The photochemical machining of aluminium has been carried out based on Taguchi L9 orthogonal array.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, Assam, 788010, India

    Jaswant Kumar, Tapas Debnath & Promod Kumar Patowari

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  1. National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India

    K.M. Pandey

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    R.D. Misra

  3. National Institute of Technology Silchar, Silchar, India

    P.K. Patowari

  4. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, India

    U.S. Dixit

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Kumar, J., Debnath, T., Patowari, P.K. (2021). Selective Etching of Aluminium 6068 Using Photochemical Machining. In: Pandey, K., Misra, R., Patowari, P., Dixit, U. (eds) Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7711-6_60

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