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Fabrication of Micro Tool Electrode for Machining Micro Structures using Wire Electrical Discharge Grinding(WEDG)  

Park Sung-Jun (삼성전기 중앙연구소)
Ahn Hyun-Min (연세대학교 대학원 기계공학과)
Lee Kyo-Seung (경기공업대학 자동차학과)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers / v.14, no.5, 2005 , pp. 13-20 More about this Journal
Abstract
Micro EDM process is generally used for machining microholes, cavities, and three dimensional shapes. For machining micro structures, first of all, micro tool electrode is indispensable and WEDG system is proposed for tool fabrication method. When using WEDG, its machining characteristics are highly affected by many EDM parameters such as applied voltage, current, rotation speed, capacitance, and pulse duration. Therefore, the design of experiment is introduced to fully understand the effect of the EDM parameters on machining tool electrode. And an attempt has been made to develop the mathematical model for predicting the size of the tool electrode by calculating spark distance. The suggested model was verified with experiment and predicted working gap distance is in good accord with the measured value.
Keywords
Micro EDM; Micro tool electrode; WEDG; Design of experiment;
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