Nonconventional machining technologies have been found viable to manufacture various products from a wide range of engineering materials. Wire electric discharge (WEDM), also known as Wire-EDM, is one the important thermal type nonconventional technologies. Wire-EDM being preferably used by manufacturers produce biomedical devices including bio and dental implants. This paper presents an overvi...

Cryogenic treated high carbon high chromium alloy cold tool steels (D-3) are used in production of high performance dies, punches, blanking and punching tools, extrusion tools, etc. cryogenic treatment is a process of keeping the specimen in cold environment to increase its wear resistance and relieving its residual stresses. Due to its high hardness Wire Electric Discharge Machine (WEDM) seems...

Technological advancement, on the one hand, makes Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) much faster. One example of that is the presence of Wire Electrical Discharge Machining – High Speed (WEDM-HS) machine, which makes the material removal rate as high as 80 mm/min. On the other hand, it also make Abrasive Waterjet (AWJ) achieve much better quality surface and tighter tolerance. As a result, th...

This paper reports a self-aligned three-dimensional process (3D-SOULE) that incorporates batch-mode micro ultrasonic machining (μUSM), lapping and micro electro-discharge machining (μEDM) for fabrication of concave and mushroom-shaped spherical structures from hard and brittle materials. To demonstrate the process, 1 mm structures are fabricated from glass and ruby spheres. The μEDM technique i...

Unconventional machining process finds lot of application in aerospace and precision industries. It is preferred over other conventional methods because of the advent of composite and high strength to weight ratio materials, complex parts and also because of its high accuracy and precision. Usually in unconventional machine tools, trial and error method is used to fix the values of process para...

WEDM is one of the important variants of electrical discharge machining (EDM) which uses the thermal energy generated between the electrodes for machining the electrically conducive materials. This method has been successfully implemented in common materials like aluminum, stainless steel etc., But its application in super alloys like Ti6Al4V is still under investigations. This paper reviews th...

Abstract The present work aims to carry out a feasible study of wire electro-discharge machining (WEDM) during the Inconel 690 superalloy gears. Processing conditions power-on time, power-off current, and spark-gap voltage are varied evaluate process performance in terms material removal rate (MRR), surface roughness (SR), consumption. Parametric optimization has been carried using combined app...

Advanced engineering ceramics which are widely used as high strength refractory material for several industrial applications, always pose a challenging opportunity to machine them. Conventional methods of machining are difficult to shape them because of their high hardness and brittleness, while grinding is the only popular method to machine them, but shaping of ceramics in desired form is diff...