Study of Electroplated Nickel Layer Thickness and Saw Parameters on Cutting Performance in Diamond Wire Sawing of Sapphire Ingots

2015 ◽  
Vol 656-657 ◽  
pp. 450-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong Hwei Yeh ◽  
H.Y. Chen ◽  
Cheng Kuo Lee ◽  
A.H. Tan

A production-scale multiwire saw machine and 4 inch sapphire ingots were used in this study. The diamond wire used in the study had a core diameter of 0.1mm with an attached diamond particle size of 8–12μm. This study uses the Taguchi method and Grey relational analysis on the key diamond wire parameters which are electroplated nickel layer thickness, diamond wire tension, diamond wire speed and sapphire ingot feed rate, in order to simultaneously optimize the cutting performance in the diamond wire sawing of sapphire ingots. Based on the analysis, the nickel layer thickness and wire speed are the first and second most significant factors with 31.7 and 29.9% effects on cutting performances. The optimal control factors were then simultaneously evaluated for Ra, material removal rate, diamond wire wear rate and TTV and were found at optimization to be 14 μm nickel layer thickness, 15NT wire tension, 800m/min wire speed and 0.2mm/min feed rate, respectively. Compared with current standard condition, this improved process obtained from the optimization of diamond wire electroplated nickel layer thickness and saw machine parameters in the diamond wire sawing of sapphire ingots can achieve a 33% lower Ra, a 20% lower diamond wear rate, a 13% lower TTV and a 20% higher material removal rate, simultaneously.

2006 ◽  
Vol 505-507 ◽  
pp. 1219-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei Lum Tso ◽  
Bo Huei Yan ◽  
Chan Hsing Lo

Presently, the loose abrasive wire saw is the most commonly used technique for slicing hard and brittle materials. However its productivity is relatively low. A diamond wire saw has been developed for slicing brittle materials such as silicon wafer. The objects of this paper is to make the thin diamond wire saw apply to high cost production in semiconductor industries with the effective processing parameters such as machined surface roughness, material removal rate, the wear of the wire and the kerf width of the slicing. Effects of processing parameters on the performance of the diamond wire sawing processes are investigated by using the Taguchi method for this design of experiment (DOE). The analysis of the result shows that the optimal combinations for good surface roughness are small grain size, high wire speed, and low feed rate. Wire speed and feed rate are positively related to material removal rate.


Author(s):  
A. Pandey ◽  
R. Kumar ◽  
A. K. Sahoo ◽  
A. Paul ◽  
A. Panda

The current research presents an overall performance-based analysis of Trihexyltetradecylphosphonium Chloride [[CH3(CH2)5]P(Cl)(CH2)13CH3] ionic fluid mixed with organic coconut oil (OCO) during turning of hardened D2 steel. The application of cutting fluid on the cutting interface was performed through Minimum Quantity Lubrication (MQL) approach keeping an eye on the detrimental consequences of conventional flood cooling. PVD coated (TiN/TiCN/TiN) cermet tool was employed in the current experimental work. Taguchi’s L9 orthogonal array and TOPSIS are executed to analysis the influences, significance and optimum parameter settings for predefined process parameters. The prime objective of the current work is to analyze the influence of OCO based Trihexyltetradecylphosphonium Chloride ionic fluid on flank wear, surface roughness, material removal rate, and chip morphology. Better quality of finish (Ra = 0.2 to 1.82 µm) was found with 1% weight fraction but it is not sufficient to control the wear growth. Abrasion, chipping, groove wear, and catastrophic tool tip breakage are recognized as foremost tool failure mechanisms. The significance of responses have been studied with the help of probability plots, main effect plots, contour plots, and surface plots and the correlation between the input and output parameters have been analyzed using regression model. Feed rate and depth of cut are equally influenced (48.98%) the surface finish while cutting speed attributed the strongest influence (90.1%). The material removal rate is strongly prejudiced by cutting speed (69.39 %) followed by feed rate (28.94%) whereas chip reduction coefficient is strongly influenced through the depth of cut (63.4%) succeeded by feed (28.8%). TOPSIS significantly optimized the responses with 67.1 % gain in closeness coefficient.


2010 ◽  
Vol 447-448 ◽  
pp. 193-197
Author(s):  
Wei Qiang Gao ◽  
Qiu Sheng Yan ◽  
Yi Liu ◽  
Jia Bin Lu ◽  
Ling Ye Kong

Electro-magneto-rheological (EMR) fluids, which exhibit Newtonian behavior in the absence of a magnetic field, are abruptly transformed within milliseconds into a Bingham plastic under an applied magnetic field, called the EMR effect. Based on this effect, the particle-dispersed EMR fluid is used as a special instantaneous bond to cohere abrasive particles and magnetic particles together so as to form a dynamical, flexible tiny-grinding wheel to machine micro-groove on the surface of optical glass. Experiments were conducted to reveal the effects of process parameters, such as the feed rate of the horizontal worktable, feeding of the Z axis, machining time and machining gap, on material removal rate of glass. The results indicate that the feed rate of the worktable at horizontal direction has less effect on material removal rate, which shows a fluctuation phenomenon within a certain range. The feed rate of the Z axis directly influences the machining gap and leads to a remarkable change on material removal rate. Larger material removal rate can be obtained when the feeding frequency of Z direction is one time per processing. With the increase of rotation speed of the tool, material removal rate increases firstly and decreases afterwards, and it gets the maximum value with the rotation speed of 4800 rev/min. The machining time is directly proportional to material removal amount, but inversely proportional to material removal rate. Furthermore, material removal rate decreases with the increase of the machining gap between the tool and the workpiece. On the basis of above, the machining mode with the tiny-grinding wheel based on the EMR effect is presented.


ROTASI ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Petrus Londa

Keausan elektroda pada proses EDM die sinking adalah peristiwa yang tidak dapat di hindari, namun dengan mengatur variabel pemotongan yang sesuai, diharapkan keausan yang terjadi se-minim mungkin sehingga dapat menjamin tingkat akurasi ukuran pada benda kerja yang di hasilkan. Pada penelitian ini di pilih metode Taguchi untuk menentukan variabel pemotongan yang optimum pada elektroda tembaga dan benda kerja dari bahan K460 (amutit S). Taguchi L9 orthogonal array, signal-to-noise ratio (S/N ratio) dan analysis of variance (ANOVA) dapat menentukan performa variabel proses EDM (PON, POFF, QDON dan GAP) dengan parameter yang di teliti adalah Electrode Wear Rate (EWR) dan Material Removal Rate (MRR). Hasil dari eksperimen tersebut di tampilkan dalam bentuk tabel-tabel dan grafik


2015 ◽  
Vol 1115 ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Nur Atiqah ◽  
Mohammad Yeakub Ali ◽  
Abdul Rahman Mohamed ◽  
Md. Sazzad Hossein Chowdhury

Micro end milling is one of the most important micromachining process and widely used for producing miniaturized components with high accuracy and surface finish. This paper present the influence of three micro end milling process parameters; spindle speed, feed rate, and depth of cut on surface roughness (Ra) and material removal rate (MRR). The machining was performed using multi-process micro machine tools (DT-110 Mikrotools Inc., Singapore) with poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) as the workpiece and tungsten carbide as its tool. To develop the mathematical model for the responses in high speed micro end milling machining, Taguchi design has been used to design the experiment by using the orthogonal array of three levels L18 (21×37). The developed models were used for multiple response optimizations by desirability function approach to obtain minimum Ra and maximum MRR. The optimized values of Ra and MRR were 128.24 nm, and 0.0463 mg/min, respectively obtained at spindle speed of 30000 rpm, feed rate of 2.65 mm/min, and depth of cut of 40 μm. The analysis of variance revealed that spindle speeds are the most influential parameters on Ra. The optimization of MRR is mostly influence by feed rate. Keywords:Micromilling,surfaceroughness,MRR,PMMA


2014 ◽  
Vol 592-594 ◽  
pp. 516-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basil Kuriachen ◽  
Jose Mathew

Micro EDM milling process is accruing a lot of importance in micro fabrication of difficult to machine materials. Any complex shape can be generated with the help of the controlled cylindrical tool in the pre determined path. Due to the complex material removal mechanism on the tool and the work piece, a detailed parametric study is required. In this study, the influence of various process parameters on material removal mechanism is investigated. Experiments were planned as per Response Surface Methodology (RSM) – Box Behnken design and performed under different cutting conditions of gap voltage, capacitance, electrode rotation speed and feed rate. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed to identify the level of importance of machining parameters on the material removal rate. Maximum material removal rate was obtained at Voltage (115V), Capacitance (0.4μF), Electrode rotational Speed (1000rpm), and Feed rate (18mm/min). In addition, a mathematical model is created to predict the material removal


2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Sivasankar ◽  
R. Jeyapaul

This research work concentrates on Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) performance evaluation of ZrB2- SiC ceramic matrix composites with different tool materials at various machining parameters. Monolithic ZrB2 possesses lower relative density (98.72%) than composites. ZrB2 with 20 Vol.% of SiC possesses 99.74% of the relative density with improved hardness values. Bend strength and Young’s modulus increase with SiC addition until it reaches 20 Vol% and then decreasing. EDM performance on tool materials of tungsten, niobium, tantalum, graphite and titanium at various levels of pulse on time and pulse off time are analyzed. Graphite produces the best Material removal rate (MRR) for all the workpieces. Tool wear rate decreases with melting point and thermal conductivity of the tool material.


1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuqian Yang ◽  
J. C. M. Li ◽  
Imin Kao

Abstract The deformation of the wire in the wiresaw slicing process was studied by considering directly the mechanical interaction between the wire and the ingot. The wire tension on the upstream is larger than on the downstream due to the friction force between the wire and the ingot. The tension difference across the cutting zone increases with friction and the span of the contact zone. The pressure in the contact zone increases from the entrance to the exit if the wire bending stiffness is ignored. The finite element results show that the wire bending stiffness plays an important role in the wire deformation. Higher wire bending stiffness (larger wire size) generates higher force acting onto the ingot for the same amount of wire deformation, which will leads to higher material removal rate and kerf loss. While larger wire span will reduce the force acting onto the ingot for a given ingot displacement in the direction perpendicular to the wire.


Author(s):  
Arun Kumar Rouniyar ◽  
Pragya Shandilya

Magnetic field assisted powder mixed electrical discharge machining is a hybrid machining process with suitable modification in electrical discharge machining combining the use of magnetic field and fine powder in the dielectric fluid. Aluminum 6061 alloy has found highly significance for the advanced industries like automotive, aerospace, electrical, marine, food processing and chemical due to good corrosion resistance, high strength-to-weight ratio, ease of weldability. In this present work, magnetic field assisted powder mixed electrical discharge machining setup was fabricated and experiments were performed using one factor at a time approach for aluminum 6061 alloy. The individual effect of machining parameters namely, peak current, pulse on time, pulse off time, powder concentration and magnetic field on material removal rate and tool wear rate was investigated. The effect of peak current was found to be dominant on material removal rate and tool wear rate followed by pulse on time, powder concentration and magnetic field. Increase in material removal rate and tool wear rate was observed with increase in peak current, pulse on time and a decrease in pulse off time, whereas, for material removal rate increases and tool wear rate decreases up to the certain value and follow the reverse trend with an increase in powder concentration. Material removal rate was increased and tool wear rate was decreased with increase in magnetic field.


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