Experimental Investigation on Electrical Discharge Drilling of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy |
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| Authors: | Umacharan Singh Yadav Vinod Yadava |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Directorate General of Aeronautical Quality Assurance, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi, India;2. Mechanical Engineering Department, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Allahabad, India |
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| Abstract: | This article describes the experimental investigation related to creation of holes in aerospace titanium alloy workpiece using static electrode machining and electrical discharge drilling (EDD) process. Special attachment for holding and rotating the tool electrode was developed and installed on electrical discharge machining (EDM) machine by replacing the original conventional tool holder provided on die sinking EDM. The effect of input parameters such as gap current, pulse on-time, duty factor and RPM of tool electrode on output parameters for average hole circularity (Ca) and average surface roughness (Ra) have been studied. It is observed that the effect of rotating electrode machining has considerable influence on the output parameters over stationary electrode machining. The micro-graphs and photographs of few selected samples were taken by SEM and metallurgical microscope, which also commensurate with the findings of the study. |
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| Keywords: | average circularity average surface roughness electrical discharge machining |
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