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Department of Production Technology, M I T Campus, Anna University, Chennai 600 025, India
Department of Mechanical Engineering, C E G Campus, Anna University, Chennai 600 025, India
Description
Iso energy pulse
AISI 202 Stainless Steel
Brass
kerosene
Normally submerged
5
40, 60,80
9,12,15
0.4,0.6,0.8
1
Experimental Procedure
Since the discharge energy is mainly determined by
gap voltage, peak current and duty factor, these
factors have been taken as the input parameters. Duty
factor is defined as ratio of pulse duration to total
pulse cycle. Table 1 shows the process variables used
in the present study. 40 V, 60 V and 70 V have been
considered as gap voltage variables. 0.4, 0.6 and 0.8
have been chosen as duty factor with the discharge
472
Taguchi Method
Taguchi method is systematic and efficacy
approach to find the optimal combination of input
parameters. This method utilizes the orthogonal array
of experiments to reduce the number of experiments
in any machining process. Since three input
parameters have been selected, L9 orthogonal array
has been selected for this study. Using the orthogonal
array nine experiments have been conducted. Material
removal rate has been calculated by weight difference
of workpiece before and after the machining process
with 0.01 mm high precision balance. The surface
roughness has been computed using surfcoder surface
roughness tested with 0.8 mm as cutoff length.
Table 3 shows the combinations of input factors with
their corresponding responses. It is also used to study
the effects of input parameters on response variables.
This quality analysis tool analyzes the obtained results
by using signal-to-noise (S / N) ratio. This ratio is
determined by characteristics of the machining
process. The categories of this ratio are larger the
Factor
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
40
9
0.4
60
12
0.6
70
15
0.8
Surface roughness
(m)
40
0.4
4.74
3.26
40
12
0.6
8.6
6.98
40
15
0.8
9.51
11.78
60
0.6
7.46
4.58
60
12
0.8
12.8
9.62
60
15
0.4
8.384
6.99
70
0.8
15.51
6.53
70
12
0.4
10.9
4.82
70
15
0.6
13.36
8.98
Trial number
(1)
473
Yij2 )
(2)
(5)
(6)
Table 4S/N ratio and normalized S/N ratio for conducted experiments
Material removal rate
Trial number
Surface roughness
S/N ratio
S/N ratio
13.51557
-10.2644
18.68997
0.50253131
-16.8771
0.40844403
19.56361
0.58737828
-21.4229
17.45478
0.38257092
-13.2173
0.73584027
22.1442
0.83800194
-19.6635
0.15918044
18.46903
0.48107353
-16.8895
0.40733162
23.81224
-16.2983
0.460226
20.74853
0.70245623
-13.6609
0.69615416
22.51613
0.8741233
-19.0655
0.21267373
474
Ra (m)
0.333333
0.501269
0.547872
0.447456
0.755289
0.490713
1
0.626925
0.798879
1
0.458062
0.333333
0.654313
0.372906
0.457595
0.480874
0.62201
0.388402
Rank
0.666667
0.479665
0.440603
0.550885
0.564098
0.474154
0.740437
0.624467
0.593641
2
7
9
6
5
8
1
3
4
max-min
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
0.5297
0.5561
0.5414
0.6528
0.5028
0.5817
0.1238
0.1499
0.0470
(7)
475