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In this paper, an inverse heat conduction method is applied to estimate the amount of the energy (F c ) transferred to the workpiece during electric discharge machining (EDM) process. Embedded thermocouples which were connected to a four channel data logger were utilized to measure the temperature of a specific location on a rectangular workpiece during the EDM process. After temperature measurements were done, the 2-D heat conduction model of the workpiece and the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) scheme were used to determine the energy transferred to the workpiece. This inverse procedure facilitates the determination of the heat energy at discharge-workpiece interface in EDM processes, which yet is a challenge for existing numerical models. The obtained results showed that the energy transferred to the workpiece varies with the discharge current and pulse duration from 5 % up to 45 %, which shows that the value of F c is a function of discharge current and pulse duration and that the fixed value of energy assumed in majority of the previous researches is not in accordance with real EDM conditions. Furthermore, the effects of machining parameters such as discharge current and pulse duration on F c were studied. It was evident that the F c has a direct but non-linear relationship with both discharge current and pulse duration, while discharge current has a higher impact on F c .
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Shabgard, M., Akhbari, S. An inverse heat conduction method to determine the energy transferred to the workpiece in EDM process. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 83, 1037–1045 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-7651-8
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