Material removal rate, kerf, and surface roughness of tungsten carbide machined with wire electrical discharge machining

Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 71-76

  Shah, Aqueel ^a   Mufti, Nadeem A ^a   Rakwal, Dinesh ^b   Bamberg, Eberhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

kerf; material removal rate; surface roughness; Taguchi method; tungsten carbide; wire EDM

Indexed keywords

CONTROL FACTORS; KERF; MACHINING PARAMETERS; MACHINING PERFORMANCE; MATERIAL REMOVAL RATE; MATERIAL THICKNESS; ORTHOGONAL DESIGN; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; TAGUCHI; WIRE EDM; WIRE ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING; WORK PIECES;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; METAL ANALYSIS; STRIPPING (REMOVAL); SURFACE PROPERTIES; TAGUCHI METHODS; TUNGSTEN; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE; WIRE;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 79851514369     PISSN: 10599495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11665-010-9644-y     Document Type: Article

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