Influence of the type and grain size of the electro-conductive phase on the Wire-EDM performance of ZrO2 ceramic composites

CIRP Annals - Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 191-194

  Lauwers, B ^a   Brans, K ^a   Liu, W ^a   Vleugels, J ^a   Salehi, S ^a   Vanmeensel, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ceramic; Electrical discharge machining (EDM); Microstructure

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROSTRUCTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZIRCONIA;

ELECTRO-CONDUCTIVE PHASE; PHASE MATERIAL;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 43649090712     PISSN: 00078506     EISSN: 17260604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cirp.2008.03.089     Document Type: Article

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