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Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi
Synopsis
for Project
Introduction
Hard brittle materials such as glasses, engineering ceramics, and single crystals have favorable
characteristics – wear resistance, chemical resistance, a high melting point, and high strength.
Such materials are used in many industrial applications. Nevertheless, these excellent materials
are generally expensive. Also, most non-conventional machining processes, such as
electrochemical machining (ECM), electro discharge machining (EDM), etc., cannot be
utilized for the machining of electrically non-conducting materials. Electrochemical discharge
machining (ECDM) is such a process, that can be employed to machine electrically non-
conducting materials using the electrochemical discharge phenomenon. When two electrodes
of very different sizes are separated by a few millimeters and dipped into an electrolyte
solution, beyond a certain value of applied voltage, electric sparks appear across the electrode–
electrolyte interface on the smaller electrode and the cell current drops. This is known as the
electrochemical discharge (ECD) phenomenon. If the machining utilizes the ECD
phenomenon, then it is called ECDM. It is a hybrid technique, the combination of ECM and
EDM processes
Problem Statement
From the literature it was found that minimum amount of research was carried out with coated
twist drill tool bit. Hence present work is mainly focusing on, to investigate the influence of
titanium coated tungsten carbide twist drill bit on machining performance in terms of material
removal rate, tool wear rate, heat affected zone and over cut in machining of borosilicate glass.
Literature Review
Experimental Layout
Performing Experiments
Analysis of Results
Conclusion
1. Choosing parameters from speed, feed, voltage, current, duty factor, tool diameter
(Since it is not easy to study many parameters at once few parameters will be chosen
for study rest of the parameters will remain constant for all experiments)
2. Finding out number of levels for each parameter
3. Using design of experiments to generate experimental layout
4. Performing the experiments
5. Measure the response parameters and compare effects with respect to coated and
uncoated tool (response parameters are radial overcut (ROC), material removal rate
(MRR), tool wear rate (TWR), HAZ thickness
6. Using Minitab to perform ANOVA to find significance of various parameters
7. Tool wear simulation and comparison with the experiments conducted
Materials, Tools & Equipment
1. ECDM machine
2. Tungsten carbide tool
3. Workpiece
Software Requirements
1. Minitab 17
2. MATLAB
3. Autodesk Inventor 2019
4. Autodesk NASTRAN In-CAD
Timeline
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