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The characteristic feature of edge disintegration easily appears in the electric discharge machining (EDM) drilling processing of cobalt-bonded tungsten carbide (WC-Co). Such tendency reduces the strength against fatigue and results in a poor assembly tolerance. The objective of this paper was to present the mathematical models for modeling and analysis of the effects of process parameters, including the discharge current, pulse time on, duty factor, and capacitance value, on the disintegration factor at the entrance edge of drilled hole in the EDM drilling process of cobalt-bonded tungsten carbide. An experimental plan of a central composite design based on the response surface methodology (RSM) was employed to carry out the experimental study. The quadratic model of RSM associated with the sequential approximation optimization method was used to find the optimum settings of processing parameters. With the experimental values up to a 95% confidence interval, it is fairly well for the experimental results to present the mathematical model of disintegration factor. The results show that the interaction effect of discharge current with capacitance value has the greatest influence on the disintegration factor, followed by the capacitance value and the quadratic term of duty factor. The optimal settings of processing parameters obtained in this study represent the reduction of the 5.53% disintegration factor, which were compared with the results of initial processing parameters for drilling the cobalt-bonded tungsten carbide in the EDM process.
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Liu, NM., Chiang, KT., Horng, JT. et al. Modeling and analysis of the edge disintegration in the EDM drilling cobalt-bonded tungsten carbide. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 51, 587–598 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-010-2629-z
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