• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.268-274
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• 2013

Electric discharge machining drill (EDM-drill) is an efficient process for the fabrication of micro-diameter deep metal hole. As there is non-physical contact between tool (electrode) and workpiece, EDM-drill is widely used to machine the hard machining materials such as high strength steel, cemented carbide, titanium alloys. The electro-thermal energy forces the electrode to wear out together with the workpiece to be machined. The electrode wear occurs inside of a machining hole. and It causes hard to monitor the machining state, which leads the productivity and the quality to decrease. Thus, this study presents a methodology to estimated the electrode wear amount while two coefficients (scale factor and shape factor) of the logarithmic regression model are evaluated from the experiment result. To increase the accuracy of estimation model, the linear transformation method is adopted using the differences of initial electrode wear differences. The estimation model is verified through experiment. The experimental result shows that within minute error, the estimation model is able to predict accurately.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.354-361
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• 2010

The paper presents an efficient computation of optimal tool length for 5-axis mold & die machining. The implemented procedure processes an NC file as an initial input, where the NC data is generated by another commercial CAM system. A commercial CAM system generates 5-axis machining NC data which, in its own way, is optimal based on pre-defined machining condition such as tool-path pattern, tool-axis control via inclination angles, etc. The proper tool-length should also be provided. The tool-length should be as small as possible in order to enhance machinability as well as surface finish. A feasible tool-length at each NC block can be obtained by checking interference between workpiece and tool components, usually when the tool-axis is not modified at this stage for most CAM systems. Then the minimum feasible tool-length for an NC file consisting of N blocks is the maximum of N tool-length values. However, it can be noted that slight modification of tool-axis at each block may reduce the minimum feasible tool-length in mold & die machining. This approach can effectively be applied in machining feature regions such as steep wall or deep cavity. It has been implemented and is used at a molding die manufacturing company in Korea.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.190-195
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• 1997

The requirement of precision products about difficult-to-cut materials such as Cu and Aluminum alloy is becoming more and more. Because of soft materials, the exist narrow groves on surface are difficult to gotten off even on the polishing stage. It has been proved that Magnetic-Electrolytic-Abrasive Polishing (MEAP) is a efficient method to resolve this problem by using the nonwoven-abrasive pads together [1, 2]. In this study, through the experiments, their machining properties of newly developer polishing material of SiC, Al2O3 and diamond nonwoven abrasive pads have been proved. Through the experiments, the optimal machining conditions on larger cylinder shape workpiece of Cu and Aluminium alloy have been found, through the Taguchi[3] method the optimal machining conditions can be selected.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1875-1878
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• 2005

It is not efficient and scarcely out of the question to use commercial expensive electron beam lithography system widely used for semiconductor fabrication process for the manufacturing application field of various devices in the small business scope. Then scanning electron microscope based electron beam machining system is maybe regarded as a powerful model can be used for it simply. To get a complete suite of thus proper system, column unit build up with electron beam gun head unit is necessarily required more than anything else to modify scanning electron microscope. In this study, various components included ceramic isolation plate and main body which are essentially constructed for electron beam gun head unit are designed and manufactured. And this electron beam gun head unit will be used for next connected study in the development step of scanning electron microscope based electron beam machining system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.95-100
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• 2016

Various processes have been developed to improve the performance of the lubrication oil pump in a recent automobile industry. In particular, trochoidal profile has been widely used for the lubrication oil pump because it is easy to flow control and a lot of oil feed rate is obtained. Accuracy of the trochoidal profile as a core component of the lubricating oil pump affects the driving performance. So, it is necessary to develop efficient processing of the trochoidal profile. In this study, a machining process for the trochoidal profile is developed by turn-mill. Cutting force, surface roughness and tool wear were evaluated in accordance with machining conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.1017-1020
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• 2004

It is not efficient and scarcely out of the question to use commercial expensive electron beam lithography system widely used for semiconductor fabrication process for the manufacturing application field of various devices in the small business scope. Then scanning electron microscope based electron beam machining system is maybe regarded as a powerful model can be used for it simply. To get a complete suite of thus proper system, column unit build up with several electo-magnetic lens is necessarily required more than anything else to modify scanning electron microscope. In this study, various components included several electro-magnetic lens and main body which are essentially constructed for column unit are designed and manufactured. And this established column unit will be used for next connected study in the development step of scanning electron microscope based electron beam machining system.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.420-426
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• 1993

The machinability of ceramics has been experimentally studied. The experiments were conducted on alumina cernmics of various purity, quartz, and cordierite using the sintered diamond tools and CBN tools. Tool wasre, surface roughness, and cutting resistence were measured and analysed. It was found that the workpieces could be machined with the diamond and CBN tools, but the sintered diamond tools were more efficient for the machining of the high strength ceramics. The machining of alumina ceramics with sintered diamond tools showed that (1) wet machining prolonged tool life comparing with dry machining, (2) workpiecewith higher purity had better surface roughness, (3) severe cutting conditions led to the chipping and fracture of tool and increase of the surface roughness and cutting resistance, (4) 20~40m/min of cutting speed, 0.01~0.02mm/rev of feed, and 0.1~0.2mm of cutting depth are suggested as proper cutting conditions for the high strength ceramics.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.393-402
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• 2000

Recently 5-axis NC machines are widely used in Korea. Since 5-axis machines have two more degrees of freedom than 3-axis machines, it is very important to find desirable tool positions(locations and orientations) in order to make an efficient use of expensive 5-axis NC machines. In this research an algorithm to determine “optimal” tool positions for 5-axis machining of sculptured surfaces is developed. For given CC(Cutter Contact) points, this algorithm determines the cutter axis vectors which minimize cusp heights and satisfy constraints. To solve the optimal problem, we deal with following major issues: (1) an approximation method of a cusp height as a measure of optimality (2) Identifying some properties of the optimal problem (3) a search method for the optimal points using the properties. By using a polyhedral model as a machining surface, this algorithm applies to sculptured surfaces covering: overhanged surface.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.24-29
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• 1995

A recently developed finishing process using rotating magnetic field is known to be very efficient for the finishing of parts such as vacuum tube, sanitary tube, etc., which are difficult to be finished by the conventional finishing methods as they are generally curbed tubes. But, the finishing system using rotating magnetic field have the defect that is the cross section of workpiece only circle because of internal rotating tool. Therefore, new finishing process of the workpieces which cross section are not circle is important and required. magnetic abrasive jet machining is a new concept finishing process. It is the precision internal finishing method using working fluid mixed with magnetic abrasives, which is jetted into the internal surface of tube. And magnetic poles are equipped on external surface of tube. In this study new concept finishing process or, magnetic abrasive jet machining system was developed. machining condition was predicted using simulation and some characteristics of the finishing process was analyzed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.251-259
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• 2010

It is presented in this study a new efficient intelligent machining strategy, which can be used to remove the uncut volume at the boundary region of curved surfaces caused by cutter interference. The geometric form definitions and recognition of topological features of the surface triangulation mesh are used to generate cutter paths along successive and interconnected steepest pathways, that minimize the cusp height left after flat end milling. In order to machine the uncut volume gradually, the z-map cutter centers are adjusted to avoid cutter interference for the 6 kinds of avoidance types. And then, the generative subsequent paths are sequenced to determine the second step cutter paths for the next uncut volume. For the 2 kinds of test models with convex and concave surface region, the implemented software algorithm is evaluated by investigating the residual swelling of uncut volume for each machining step.