Abstract

In this research work, experiments were conducted using Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) in dry and conventional mode, and the results were compared and analyzed. LM13 Aluminium alloy is used as the workpiece and pure cylindrical copper rod is used as the tool electrode. Since the machining was difficult in dry EDM, some modifications were made in the existing tool design to conduct the experiments in dry EDM. The experiments were designed using Taguchi’s L27 orthogonal array. Discharge current (I), gap voltage (V), pulse on time (TON), pressure (P) and speed (N) were chosen as the various input parameters. Three levels of values were chosen for each input parameter, whereas speed was chosen as the fixed parameter. The variation in the material removal rate (MRR), surface roughness (SR), surface morphology and elemental composition of the machined surface due to variation in the input parameters were analyzed in both dry and conventional mode. Better MRR, and surface roughness were observed in the work piece machined under conventional EDM process. The MRR is observed to be 84% more in the conventional mode when compared with dry EDM. Also, when compared to the dry EDM, about 15.33% better SR values is observed in the conventional EDM process.

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