Advancing EDM through fundamental insight into the process

CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 64-87

  Kunieda, M ^a   Lauwers, B ^b   Rajurkar, K P ^c   Schumacher, B M ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d FHO Fachhochschule Ostschweiz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electrical discharge machining (EDM); Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

EDM TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRONIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; WIRE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING (WEDM);

ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING;

EID: 32044470438     PISSN: 00078506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0007-8506(07)60020-1     Document Type: Article

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