Modares Mechanical Engineering

Modares Mechanical Engineering

Modeling of Erosion Parameters in Spark Machining of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy using Fuzzy Method

Document Type : Original Research

Author
Gouhar Ranjbari
10.22034/mme.23.10.37
Abstract
In this paper, tool and workpiece wear ratio and surface roughness in the removal process of Ti-6Al-4V by spark are modeled using fuzzy algorithm. In the machining process using a spark, a copper electrode is used as a tool and equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) process is applied to the tool. In this combined modelling the number of ECAP passes, current, spark presence time and spark absence time are used as input parameters. The evaluation and validation results of fuzzy modeling, using experimental data, show that the fuzzy algorithm is capable of modeling and establishing relationships between response variables based on input parameters with high accuracy. Therefore, by using this method, one can easily predict the response variables and avoid the need of conducting experiments that require spending a lot of time and cost.
Keywords
Fuzzy Modelling
Spark Machining
ECAP
Tool Wear Ratio
Work Piece Wear Rate
Surface roughness

Subjects

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Modares Mechanical Engineering
Volume 23, Issue 10
October 2023
Pages 37-42