Chapter 6Nontraditional Removal Processes
Murali Sundaram1* and K.P. Rajurkar2
1Micro and Nano Manufacturing Laboratory, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2Center for Nontraditional Manufacturing Research (CNMR), Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
*Corresponding author: murali.sundaram@uc.edu
Abstract
Electrical discharge and electrochemical processes belong to a group of nontraditional manufacturing processes that primarily use electricity or the effect of electricity to produce desired features by material removal. The electrical energy requirements for these processes are of significant importance as electrical energy is controlling the material removal in these processes. The processes included in this chapter are electrical discharge machining (EDM), electrochemical machining (ECM), and electrochemical hybrid techniques, namely, electrochemical discharge machining (ECDM), and electrochemical grinding (ECG). This chapter discusses these processes with the perspective of their energy efficiency.
Keywords: Electro-discharge machining (EDM), electrochemical machining (ECM), electrochemical discharge machining (ECDM), electrochemical grinding (ECG)
6.1 Introduction
Electrical discharge and electrochemical processes belong to a group of nontraditional manufacturing processes that primarily use electricity or the effect of electricity to produce desired features by material removal [1]. The electrical ...
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