Optimisation of process parameters for multi-performance characteristics in EDM of Al₂O₃ ceramic composite

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• 作者：K. M. Patel ; Pulak M. Pandey and P. Venkateswara Rao
• 关键词：EDM ; Al2O3– ; SiCw– ; TiC ceramic composite ; Grey relational analysis ; Multiple response characteristics ; Optimisation
• 刊名：The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：April, 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：47
• 期：9-12
• 页码：1137-1147
• 全文大小：451.8 KB

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The advantages of electrical discharge machining (EDM) in machining of complex ceramic components have promoted research in the area of EDM of ceramic composites. The recent developments in ceramic composites are focused not only on the improvements of strength and toughness, but also on possibilities for difficult-to-machine shapes using EDM. One such EDM-machinable ceramic composite material (Al₂O₃–SiC_w–TiC) has been developed recently and has been selected in the present study to investigate its EDM machinability. Experiments were conducted using discharge current, pulse-on time, duty cycle and gap voltage as typical process parameters. The grey relational analysis was adopted to obtain grey relational grade for EDM process with multiple characteristics namely material removal rate and surface roughness. Analysis of variance was used to study the significance of process variables on grey relational grade which showed discharge current and duty cycle to be most significant parameters. Other than discharge current and duty cycle, pulse-on time and gap voltage have also been found to be significant. To validate the study, confirmation experiment has been carried out at optimum set of parameters and predicted results have been found to be in good agreement with experimental findings.