Experimental investigation of kerf characteristics through wire electrochemical spark cutting of alumina epoxy nanocomposite

Review on Recent Advances, Research Trends, and Gas Film in Electrochemical Discharge-Based Micromachining

“…The process was first demonstrated by Kurafuji and Suda [17] in 1968, who elaborated on the possibility of drilling a glass material using electric discharge. It has successfully machined several advanced materials like: (i) glass [17], (ii) ceramics [13][14][15][16], (iii) composites [18,19], (iv) stainless-steel materials [16][17][18][19][20], (v) piezoelectric ceramics [21], (vi) silicon wafer [22], (vii) E-glass-fiber-epoxy composite material [23,24], (viii) Al 2 O 3 [25], (ix) silicon nitride [26], and (x) Zirconium oxide [15].…”

Investigations on the Wear Rate of Sintering Diamond Core Bit during the Hole Drilling Process of Al2O3 Bulletproof Ceramics

“…At present, special processing technologies are usually adopted for the machining of hard and brittle materials such as engineering ceramics, including laser processing [1,2], electrical discharge machining [3,4], ultrasonic machining [5,6], and so on. Bharatish et al [1] performed CO 2 laser drilling tests of 2 mm-thick Al 2 O 3 ceramic plates to examine the effects of laser parameters such as pulse frequency, laser power, scanning speed, and hole diameter on entrance circularity, exit circularity, heat affected zone, and taper.…”

“…In the study by Munz et al [3], electrically conductive ceramic ZTA-TiC composites were machined by EDM (electrical discharge machining) drilling with variation of pulse shape, discharge current, discharge time, and flushing conditions. Yadav et al [4] investigated the effects of varied voltage, electrolyte concentration, wire velocity, pulse on-time, and pulse off-time for the EDM of alumina epoxy nanocomposite. Guo et al [5] designed a novel ultrasonic vibration apparatus and performed the experimental investigation of ultrasonic vibration-assisted grinding of SiC microstructures.…”