Computer aided contouring operation for traveling wire electric discharge machining (EDM)

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 925-934

  Wang, James ^a   Ravani, Bahram ^b  

^a ACCURAY INCORPORATED   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric discharge machining; Numerical control; Workpiece

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; MACHINE TOOLS; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER AIDED CONTOURING;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 0037884721     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-4485(02)00207-5     Document Type: Article

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