Investigations of the Effect of Parameters on the CR and SR during Al6063/SiC/Ti at WEDM

Abstract:

Wire electric discharge machine (WEDM) is a non-conventional machining process used to machine the hard to cut materials. WEDM has wide applications in die and punch industries, automobile, aerospace and medical industries. In this process the material is processed with the help of a wire electrode. In present work, Al6063/SiC/Ti composite was processed with the help of WEDM. As this spark-erosion machine tool have number of input process parameters, so to process any material it became mandatory to investigate the range of the machining parameters in which machine tool operate successfully. Every material represents its unique material characteristics due to which it can be machined successfully in a limited range of the parameters. Above and below this range the wire will break abruptly. So, in this present work an attempt has been made to investigate the range of the process parameters in which WEDM can process Al6063/SiC/Ti composite efficiently. The input parameters considered for the present work are pulse on-time, pulse off-time, servo voltage, peak current, wire feed and wire tension. After the experiments it was found that the pulse on-time, pulse off-time, servo voltage and wire-feed were the significant process parameters in the investigations of cutting rate and surface roughness.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 895)
• Pages: 181-186
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.895.181
• Online since: November 2019
• Authors: Rajesh Khanna*, Neeraj Sharma, Rahul Dev Gupta
• Keywords: Al6061/SiC/Ti, Preliminary Study, WEDM

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