In Electrical Discharge Machining, oxides (or debris) are created and accumulated in the sparking gap between an electrode and a work piece. If the debris density becomes too great in certain points in the gap, there is a reduction in the resistance, which encourages the formation of abnormal discharges, results in significant electrode damage and slows down the material removal rate. To enhanc...

This paper presents a new statistical-based method of tool life monitoring for turning process, called Integrated Kurtosis-based Algorithm for Z-filter Technique, I-kaz, which was based on statistical analysis. The I-kaz method calculates the related coefficient for the measured machining signals. The input data of the I-kaz was acoustic signal that was generated during machining process, which...

The use of hard and brittle material has become increasingly more extensive in recent years. Therefore processing of these materials for the parts fabrication has become a challenging problem. However, it is time-consuming to machine the hard brittle materials with the traditional metal-cutting technique that uses abrasive wheels. In addition, the tool would suffer excessive wear as well. Howev...

engineering ceramics due to high-strength-to-weight ratio, wear and corrosion resistance, and high strength temperatures, in the industries especially in aerospace, automobile, electronics and computers are used widely. in attention to the  increasingly usage process of these material, applying of conventional machining methods  for producing  machined into complex and desired shapes or making ...

In this study, vibration cutting has been applied to machining of a novel material, NiTi based shape memory alloy (SMA), using a commercial ultrasonic piezoelectric transducer to vibrate an ISO insert CCMT geometry cutting tool. The effect of vibration in turning process was characterized by investigating the surface roughness of workpiece and surface quality assessment of machined surface usin...

An experimental study of the rotary ultrasonic drilling of ceramics is first presented. The influence of different process parameters on the material removal rate for machining of magnesia stabilized zirconia is examined. Then a mechanistic approach to modeling the material removal rate during rotary ultrasonic drilling of ceramics is proposed and applied to predicting the material removal rate...

Unconventional machining processes (communally named advanced or modern machining processes) are widely used by manufacturing industries. These advanced machining processes allow producing complex profiles and high quality-products. However, several process parameters should be optimized to achieve this end. In this paper, the optimization of process parameters of two conventional and four adva...

Some brittle materials have found wide applications because of their excellent thermal, chemical, and wear resistance characteristics. Impeding the use of these brittle materials in precision engineering applications is the fact that currently it is very difficult for them to be machined in a way that ensures high precision in form and to a good surface finish. A non-traditional or unconvention...

Abstract—Ultrasonic machining is one of the most widely used non-traditional machining processes for machining of materials that are relatively brittle, hard, and fragile such as advanced ceramics, refractories, crystals, quartz etc. Present article has been targeted at investigating the impact of different experimental conditions (power rating, cobalt content, tool material, thickness of work ...