High-speed Wire Electrical Discharge Machining Research Articles

Design and Simulation for Multi-Axis HS-WEDM System

In order to improve machining quality and productivity of complex curved surfaces in high-speed wire electrical discharge machining (HS-WEDM), an additional numerical control (NC) worktable (rotation-swing-swing worktable) and its NC system were designed. The movement model of the four-axle linkage system was established and simulation was developed using the programming language Visual C++ and standard connection software OpenGL.

Experimental Studies on Dry WEDM in Improving Surface Quality

This study investigates the dry wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) in multiple cut. To improve surface quality with high-speed WEDM (HS-WEDM), a new procedure as Gas-liquid Combined Multiple Cut (roughing is processed in dielectric liquid, and semi-finishing is in liquid or gas, while the finishing is in gas) is presented. Effects of pulse duration, pulse interval, peak current, offset, wire winding speed and wire length on roughness, straightness and removal rate had been studied in dry and wet conditions. Experiment results show that multiple cut with dry WEDM in semi-finishing and finishing can improve surface roughness significantly.

Dry WEDM in Improving HS-WEDMed Surface Quality

This paper studies the surface quality of mould steel with high-speed wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) method, which is conducted in gas to improve the accuracy of finish cut, and compares the surface quality in atmosphere and in emulsion dielectric. Experiment results showed that WEDM in atmosphere offers advantages such as better surface roughness and higher material removal rate. The relationship about winding speed and worktable feed on WEDMed surface quality in semi-finishing cut and finishing cut had been obtained. Morover, a new attemption was successful in applying dry WEDM in multiple cut to improve surface roughness.

Study on Dry WEDMed Surface Quality of Mould Steel

This paper studies the surface quality of tool steel with high-speed wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) method, which is conducted in gas to improve the accuracy of finish cut, and compares the surface quality in atmosphere and in emulsion dielectric. Experiment results showed that WEDM in atmosphere offers advantages such as better straightness and higher material removal rate. With the growth of wire winding speed, the removal rate and straightness error will increase significantly either in atmosphere or in liquid. Along with the feed increasing, the discharge gap lengthes decrease successively under the both media conditions, and the straightness is obviously improved in atmosphere. Regardless of the use of atmosphere or emulsion, an optimum feed will exist, which makes the roughness the lowest and the removal rate the highest.

High Speed Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (HS-WEDM) Phenomena of Insulating Si<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> Ceramics with Assisting Electrode

Advanced engineering ceramics are more and more widely employed in modern industries because of their excellent mechanical properties such as high hardness, high compressive strength, high chemical and abrasive resistance. This paper investigates the high speed wire electrical discharge machining (HS-WEDM) of Si3N4-based ceramics by assisting electrode method. The theory of assisting electrode method is introduced. The machining phenomena under different electrical parameters were studied and the optimized machine pulse width was got. The material removal mechanisms change with the increase in the power of single pulse.

Study on the Variations of Form and Position of the Wire Electrode in WEDM-HS

The electrode, a tool which is used for wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM), is a tiny flexible metal wire, therefore, in WEDM machining process, its form and position will inevitably vary because of the action of many forces, and these dynamic variations have a direct influence on machining precision and stability, especially in the high-speed WEDM (WEDM-HS) machine process; the variations of form and position have been a critical obstacle to improving machining quality and implementing multi-cut processing. In this paper, the variation regularity of wire-electrode has been investigated by experimental analysis, and some corresponding measures have been suggested to stabilize the form and position of the wire electrode in the WEDM-HS machining process.