Explore the vast range of titles available.

Enormous research work has done on the electrode wear in spark erosion machining such as hybrid electrical discharge machining process, introducing various methods such as ultrasonic vibration in electrode, rotating the electrode, developing new electrode material (alloys and composites) and surface coated electrode etc,. Equal Channel Angular pressing is one such technique which makes tool material harder through grain refinement and ultimately enhances the tool life. The work material is AISI H13. For this research work, two copper electrodes are prepared, out of which one copper electrode has undergone equal channel angular pressing process. The most influencing parameters of spark machining like current, pulse on time and pulses off time are chosen for this study. The experiments are conducted using bare copper electrode and equal channel angular pressed copper electrode based on the box Behnken approach. The observations are analyzed for the machining characteristics in terms of rate of machining, rate of tool erosion and surface coarseness. Finally, it is found that ECAP processed copper electrode has lesser wear rate and better surface finish than bare copper electrode.

Electric discharge machining process is an unconventional machining process primarily used for machining the materials such as difficult to machine in conventional machining process, hardest material and composite materials. In the present work, a study is made to find out the optimum EDM process parameters during machining of AA6061-15% boron carbide composite fabricated through stir casting technique. Three process parameters such as Current, pulse on time and pulse of time are opted as machining parameter variables. Response surface methodology is used to formulate the mathematical model for material removal rate, tool wear rate and surface roughness. Response surface methodology and genetic algorithm are applied to optimize the machining parameters individually by taking combined objective function and compared. Genetic algorithm optimization techniques yields better results than desirability approach. Key words: Electric discharge machining, MRR, TWR, Ra, RSM, Genetic algorithm

The forming behavior of AA6061 boron carbide composites produced by stir casting process was investigated with the cold upsetting test. The composites containing 0%, 5%, 10% and 15% of B4Cp reinforcements were investigated with the cold upsetting test in Universal Testing Machine under tri-axial stress state condition. SEM images were taken to identify the presence of B4Cp particle in aluminium matrix. From the analysis, it was found that the hardness of composite was increased due to increasing amount of boron carbide particle in the composite and the density was decreased due to the lower value of density of boron carbide. The maximum true axial stress, true hoop stress and hydrostatic stress were gradually increased in the event of increasing order of B4Cp in the composites. Finally, it was found that in the stress – strain curve, the boron carbide was the main factor in improving the compressive strength of composites because of its high hardness.