Experimental investigation and empirical modeling of the dry electric discharge machining process

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 49, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 297-308

  Saha, Sourabh K ^a   Choudhury, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance (ANOVA); Central composite design (CCD); Design of experiments (DOE); Dry EDM; EDM in gas; Response surface analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COPPER; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DESIGN; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF LIQUIDS; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROSTATICS; EXPERIMENTS; MACHINING; MICROMACHINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES; TOOL STEEL;

CENTRAL COMPOSITE DESIGN (CCD); DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS (DOE); DRY EDM; EDM IN GAS; RESPONSE SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

EID: 59249085623     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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