Abrasive micro-blasting to improve surface integrity of electrical discharge machined WC-Co composite

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 440-448

  Qu, Jun ^a   Shih, Albert J ^b   Scattergood, Ronald O ^c   Luo, Jie ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

EDM; Micro blasting; Surface integrity

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVES; BLASTING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRIC SPARKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EDM; MICRO-BLASTING; SURFACE INTEGRITY; THERMOELECTRIC PROCESSES;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 19744369907     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2004.09.075     Document Type: Article

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