EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF WEDM MACHINED SURFACE WAVINESS

Abstract

Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) an unconventional machining technology which has become indispensable in many industries. The typical morphology of a surface machined using the electrical discharge technology is characterized with a large number of craters caused by electro-spark discharges produced during the machining process. The study deals with an evaluation of the machine parameter setting on the profile parameters of surface waviness on samples made of two metal materials Al 99.5 and Ti-6Al-4V. Attention was also paid to an evaluation of the surface morphology using 3D colour filtered and non-filtered images.

Keywords

• WEDM, electrical discharge machining, titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V, aluminium Al 99.5, waviness