Experimental investigations into near-dry milling EDM of Stellite alloys

International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 96-111

  Jia, Y ^a   Kim, B S ^b   Hu, D J ^a   Ni, J ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Material removal rate; MRR; Near dry milling EDM; Stellite alloy machinability; Surface roughness; Tool wear ratio; TWR

Indexed keywords

COBALT ALLOYS; CORROSION RESISTANCE; CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; MILLING (MACHINING); STELLITE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WEAR OF MATERIALS; WEAR RESISTANCE;

DRY MILLING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; MACHINING PERFORMANCE; MATERIAL REMOVAL RATE; STELLITE ALLOY; TOOL WEAR RATIO; WEAR AND CORROSION RESISTANCE;

CUTTING TOOLS;

EID: 77949872085     PISSN: 17485711     EISSN: 1748572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMMM.2010.029848     Document Type: Article

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