Ahmed Naif Al-Khazraji; Samir Ali Amin; Saad Mahmood Ali
Abstract
This paperattempted to study the induced surface residual stressesduethe effect of Electrical discharge machining (EDM) input parameters, (the pulse current,the pulse-on time and the ...
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This paperattempted to study the induced surface residual stressesduethe effect of Electrical discharge machining (EDM) input parameters, (the pulse current,the pulse-on time and the type of electrode).The work includedthe use of two types of electrode, the copper and graphite as well as using or without using the graphite powder mixing with the kerosene dielectric (PMEDM) for machining AISI D2 dies steel. The response surface methodology (RSM) was usedfor design the experimental work matrices. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used, and models were builtto predict the surface residual stresses.The obtained results showed that the minimum tensile surface residual stresses obtained when using the copper electrodeswith pulse current (22 A) and pulse on duration (40 µs) when working with kerosene dielectric alone and (8 A) with (120 µs) when working with graphite powder mixing. The results concluded that the using of graphite electrodes and kerosene dielectric alone or with powder mixing induced minimum residual stresses with pulse current (22 A) and pulse on duration (120 µs). The copper elec-trodes with kerosene dielectric and graphite powder mixing improved the induced tensile residual stresses by about (80 %) lower than when using kerosene dielectric alone and about (50%) lower than with graphite electrodes and the kerosene dielectric alone or with graphite mixing powder.
