Electrical discharge machining of Ti6Al4V with a bundled electrode

International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 100-106

  Gu, Lin ^a,b,c   Li, Lei ^a   Zhao, Wansheng ^a   Rajurkar, K P ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundled electrode; Computational fluid dynamics; EDM; Multi hole inner flushing; Ti6Al4V

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOYS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CUTTING TOOLS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRODES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; TERNARY ALLOYS; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING; INTERELECTRODE GAPS; MACHINING PARAMETERS; MACHINING PERFORMANCE; MATERIAL REMOVAL RATE; MULTI HOLES; PULSE DURATIONS; TI-6AL-4V;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 83555174845     PISSN: 08906955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmachtools.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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