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Experimental investigation of electrochemical discharge drilling (ECDM-D) performance characteristics for N-BK7 glass material

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ECDM is important micro-machining technique to machine mostly non-conductive material like glasses, ceramics, composites, and alloys. The process has tremendous potential to replace earlier existing expensive processes. In this paper, an attempt has been made to machine important N-BK7 glass material with ECDM drilling process, to investigate the process capabilities. The TM (Taguchi Method) has been used for modeling purpose, and multi optimization process is also done by TM (Taguchi method) incorporated along with weighted principal component (WPC). In this study the signal to noise ratio (S/N) has been used to find the relative contribution of main input parameter such as supplied voltage, electrolyte concentration, inter electrode gap and work piece thickness in controlling the machining performance, such as material removal rate (MRR) and tool wear rate (TWR) of ECDM drilling process, by considering MRR and TWR as response parameters. The WPC has been used to weigh each characteristic. The confirmation of experimental result under parametric condition provided to ensure the improvement in quality characteristics of the process. The results show the hybrid methodology can improve the process performance by 25% in MRR and TWR reduced by 7%.

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    R. Saxena, A. Mandal & S. Chattopdhya

  2. Department of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Institute of Advanced Research, The University for Innovation, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, 382426, India

    Ankit D. Oza

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  4. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College (Autonomous), Tirupathi, Andhrapradesh, 517102, India

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Saxena, R., Mandal, A., Chattopdhya, S. et al. Experimental investigation of electrochemical discharge drilling (ECDM-D) performance characteristics for N-BK7 glass material. Int J Interact Des Manuf (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-022-01057-y

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