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Review
. 2020 Jul 31;11(8):754.
doi: 10.3390/mi11080754.

Recent Advances and Perceptive Insights into Powder-Mixed Dielectric Fluid of EDM

Asarudheen Abdudeen  1 , Jaber E Abu Qudeiri  1 , Ansar Kareem  1 , Thanveer Ahammed  1 , Aiman Ziout  1
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Review

Recent Advances and Perceptive Insights into Powder-Mixed Dielectric Fluid of EDM

Asarudheen Abdudeen et al. Micromachines (Basel). .

Abstract

Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is an advanced machining method which removes metal by a series of recurring electrical discharges between an electrode and a conductive workpiece, submerged in a dielectric fluid. Even though EDM techniques are widely used to cut hard materials, low efficiency and high tool wear remain remarkable challenges in this process. Various studies, such as mixing different powders to dielectric fluids, are progressing to improve their efficiency. This paper reviews advances in the powder-mixed EDM process. Furthermore, studies about various powders used for the process and its comparison are carried out. This review looks at the objectives of achieving a more efficient metal removal rate, reduction in tool wear, and improved surface quality of the powder-mixed EDM process. Moreover, this paper helps researchers select suitable powders which are exhibiting better results and identifying different aspects of powder-mixed dielectric fluid of EDM.

Keywords: EDM; MRR; PMEDM; SR; TWR.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Schematic representation of the basic working principle of electrical discharge machining (EDM) process.
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Working principle of wire EDM.
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Schematic diagram of sinker EDM.
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Fast hole drilling EDM.
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Schematic representation of the principle of powder-mixed EDM.
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Experimental setup for accretion mechanism.
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