Investigation of the relationship between the white layer thickness and 3D surface texture parameters in the die sinking EDM process

Precision Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 479-490

  Ramasawmy, H ^a   Blunt, L ^c   Rajurkar, K P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Density of summits; Pulse currents; Pulse on time; White layer thickness

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CRACK INITIATION; DIES; EROSION; MICROHARDNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DENSITY OF SUMMITS; PULSE CURRENTS; PULSE ON-TIME; WHITE LAYER THICKNESS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 24944544285     PISSN: 01416359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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