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Material removal characteristics of microslot (kerf) geometry in μ-WEDM on aluminum

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This paper presents the formulation and solution of optimization of various process parameters for the selection of the best control settings on a microwire electrical discharge machining process. A factorial design model is used to predict the measures of performance as a function of various control settings. Analysis of variance is used to indicate the significant factors. Regression models relating the machining performance are established. The performance measures taken for the model are material removal rate (MRR), overcut, and surface roughness. At discharge energy of 2,645 μJ, maximum MRR of 0.0428 mm3/min and an overcut value of 69 μm are observed. With the value of discharge energy changing from 32 to 4,500 μJ, the Ra value of slot surface varied from 1.17 to 4.25 μm. The analysis gave the average erosion efficiency around of 27%, which showed high sensitivity to the selected discharge energy levels.

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    Kodalagara Puttanarasaiah Somashekhar, Nottath Ramachandran & Jose Mathew

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Somashekhar, K.P., Ramachandran, N. & Mathew, J. Material removal characteristics of microslot (kerf) geometry in μ-WEDM on aluminum. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 51, 611–626 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-010-2645-z

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