Influence of machining parameters on surface roughness in finish cut of WEDM

被引:78
作者
Han, Fuzhu [1 ]
Jiang, Jun [1 ]
Yu, Dingwen [1 ]
机构
[1] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Precis Instruments & Mechanol, State Key Lab Tribol, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China
关键词
WEDM; finish cut; machining parameter; surface roughness;
D O I
10.1007/s00170-006-0629-9
中图分类号
TP [自动化技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Surface roughness is significant to the finish cut of wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM). This paper describes the influence of the machining parameters (including pulse duration, discharge current, sustained pulse time, pulse interval time, polarity effect, material and dielectric) on surface roughness in the finish cut of WEDM. Experiments proved that the surface roughness can be improved by decreasing both pulse duration and discharge current. When the pulse energy per discharge is constant, short pulses and long pulses will result in the same surface roughness but dissimilar surface morphology and different material removal rates. The removal rate when a short pulse duration is used is much higher than when the pulse duration is long. Moreover, from the single discharge experiments, we found that a long pulse duration combined with a low peak value could not produce craters on the workpiece surface any more when the pulse energy was reduced to a certain value. However, the condition of short pulse duration with high peak value still could produce clear craters on the workpiece surface. This indicates that a short pulse duration combined with a high peak value can generate better surface roughness, which cannot be achieved with long pulses. In the study, it was also found that reversed polarity machining with the appropriate pulse energy can improve the machined surface roughness somewhat better compared with normal polarity in finish machining, but some copper from the wire electrode is accreted on the machined surface.
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页码:538 / 546
页数:9
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