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N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering
             Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com
                        Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121

Investigation on the Effect Of Process Parameters For Machining
            Of EN31 (Air Hardened Steel) By EDM

 1
                   N.Arunkumar 1*, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof 2 and R.Vivek 2
   Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering, Old Mahabalipuram
                                 Road, Chennai -600 119, TamilNadu, India
  2
    Graduate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering, Old Mahabalipuram
                                 Road, Chennai -600 119, TamilNadu, India

Abstract
        This paper presents the results of                and quick recovery after breakdown, effective
 experimental work carried out in electrical              quenching and         flushing ability .Rajurkar
 discharge machining (EDM) of EN31 (air                   .K.P,(1986);Soni .J.S,(1994) investigated the
 hardened steel) using three different tool               responses by controlling the electrical parameters,
 materials namely copper, aluminium and EN24,             removal of material may be confined to some extent
 and also the problems involved in using graphite         to the workpiece. Wear of the tool (electrode),
 and brass as tool material. The machining                however, cannot be ignored because when this
 process was carried out at three different supply        occurs the geometrical characteristics of the
 current levels (8Amps, 12Amps, 14Amps),                  electrode will not be reproduced on the workpiece.
 flushing pressure levels (10lb/sq. in, 15lb/sq. in,      The surface generated by EDM consists of debris,
 20lb/sq. in) and pulse-on time (38µsec, 48µsec,          which has been melted or vaporized during
 58µsec), and their influence on surface                  machining, lying on or incorporated into the
 roughness, material removal rate, tool wear rate         cratered spark-eroded surface. This resulting
 and taper.                                               product of the erosion process, commonly known as
                                                          debris, has an important relation to the various
 Keywords: EDM; Supply current;                           aspects of EDM.
 Flushing pressure; Pulse-on time;                                In this study EN-31 high carbon tool steel is
 Surface roughness; Material removal                       used as the work material and investigations were
 rate; Tool wear rate; Taper                               carried out on the material removal rate, tool wear
                                                           rate, taper and surface finish using different
1. Introduction                                            electrode materials and experimental parameters.
          Electrical Discharge Machining is now one
 of the main methods used in die production and has      2. Literature Review
 good accuracy and precision with no direct physical              Review of the research work reveals that
 contact between the electrodes so that no                much work has been done on various aspects of
 mechanical stress is exerted on the work piece stated    electro-discharge machining on low carbon steels,
 by       Jose       Marafona      and       Catherine    carbides and few die-steels with only one or two
 Wykes,(2000).Wong .Y.S et al.,(1995) described           electrode materials.Jose Mara and Catherine Wykes,
 material removal is achieved by preferential erosion     (2000) have found that it is possible to improve the
 of the workpiece electrode as controlled discrete        material removal rate for a given tool wear ratio
 discharges are passed between the tool and the           using two-stage processing method. This work has
 workpiece in a dielectric medium . Pandey .P.C and       led to the development of a two-stage EDM
 Shan .H.S,(2009) stated that this process is required    machining process where different EDM settings are
 to be carried out in absence of oxygen so that the       used for the two stages of the process giving a
 process can be controlled and oxidation avoided.         significantly improved material removal rate for a
 Oxidation often leads to poor surface conductivity       given tool wear ratio.Narender Singh .P et al.,
 (electrical) of the workpiece hindering further          (2004) have performed the optimization by grey
 machining. Hence, dielectric fluid should provide an     relational analysis of EDM parameters and observed
 oxygen free machining environment .Wong .Y.S et          that this technique converts the multiple response
 al.,(1995) described characteristics required of a       variable to a single response grey relational grade
 dielectric used in EDM are high dielectric strength      and, therefore, simplifies the optimization
                                                          procedure.

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                     Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121
                                                         Yan-Cherng Lina et al.,(2009) performed the
        Han-Ming Chow et al., (2000) performed a         optimization of machining parameters in magnetic
study of added powder in kerosene for the micro-slit     force assisted EDM based on Taguchi method and
machining of titanium alloy using electro-discharge      observed that the machined surface of standard
machining.Manoj Mathew and Rajendrakumar .P.K,           EDM depicted more obvious micro-cracks than that
(2011) studied the optimization of process               of magnetic force assisted EDM.Petropoulos .G et
parameters of boro-carburized low carbon steel for       al.,(2004) have done modeling of surface finish in
tensile strength by Taquchi method with grey             electro-discharge machining based upon statistical
relational analysis and observed that the optimal        multi-parameter analysis and identified that the
process parameters and their levels for pre-             mutually independent parameters such as Ra and
carburized AISI 1015 steel are carbon content            Wa, Rsk, Rku, β, D are considered to make-up a
0.45% at 950 C temperature and 4 h process               minimum set for surface texture description
duration. The results revealed that process time, case   regarding both industrial quality control and
carbon content and process temperature influenced        research.Lin .J.L and Lin .C.L,(2002) performed a
the yield strength and % elongation. The ultimate        study on the use of the orthogonal array with grey
strength is influenced by the process temperature,       relational analysis to optimize the electrical
process time and carbon content. The process             discharge machining process with multiple
temperature was the most influential control factor      performance characteristic and found that a grey
that affects the tensile strength properties.George      relational analysis of the experimental results of
.P.M et al., (2004) performed EDM machining of           electrode wear ratio, material removal rate and
carbon–carbon composite—a Taguchi approach and           surface roughness can convert optimization of the
observed that the process variables affecting            multiple      performance     characteristics  into
electrode wear rate and MRR, according to their          optimization of a single performance characteristic
relative significance, are Vg, Ip and Ton,               called the grey relational grade.Lina .J.L et
respectively and, Ton is insignificant.                  al.,(2000) performed the optimization of the
                                                         electrical discharge machining process based on the
         Krishna Mohana Rao .G et al., (2009)            Taguchi method with fuzzy logics and fount that the
developed a hybrid model and optimized the surface       performance characteristics such as EWR and MRR
roughness in electric discharge machining using          can be improved through this approach.
artificial neural networks and genetic. The
experiments are carried out on Ti6Al4V, HE15,                    Kansal .H.K et al.,(2005) studied the
15CDV6 and M 250. Multiperceptron neural                 Parametric optimization of powder mixed electrical
network models were developed using Neuro                discharge machining by response surface
Solutions package. Genetic algorithm concept is          methodology and observed that there is discernible
used to optimize the weighting factors of the            improvement in surface roughness of the work
network. Chena .S.L et al., (2007) performed             surfaces and MRR after suspending the silicon
Electrical discharge machining of TiNiCr and             powder into the dielectric fluid of EDM.Joshi .S.N
TiNiZr ternary shape memory alloys and observed          and Pande .S.S,(2011) conducted an intelligent
that the roughness of EDMed surface increases with       process modelling and optimization of die-sinking
the discharge current and pulse duration and the         electric discharge machining and inferred that the
thickness of the recast layer for the EDMed TiNiX        proposed integrated (FEM–ANN–GA) approach
alloys varies with the pulse duration and exhibits a     was found efficient and robust as the optimum
minimum value at the maximal MRR. They                   process parameters suggested were found to give the
observed that the hardening effect near the outer        expected optimum performance of the EDM
surface for EDMed TiNiX alloys originates from the       process. It also provides flexibility to the user to
recast layer. The EDMed TiNiX alloys still exhibit a     choose optimum parameters suiting specific shop
nearly perfect shape recovery at a normal bending        needs.Katsushi Furutani et al.,(2001) investigated
strain, but slight degradation of shape recovery         the accretion of titanium carbide by electrical
occurs at a higher bending strain due to the             discharge machining with powder suspended in
constrained effect on the TiNiX matrix by the recast     working fluid and observed that after considering
layer.                                                   flow of working fluid during EDM,we find two
                                                         appropriate shapes for accretion EDM with powder
                                                         suspended in the working fluid: a thin electrode and
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a rotating disk electrode, TiC layer can be accreted     average white layer thickness and the thicker the
by using a thin electrode to keep the powder             white layer the lower the surface crack density was
concentration high, and a wider area with uniform        obtained, surface cracking can be eliminated after 6
thickness can be deposited with a gear shaped            and 3 A pulse currents for aluminium and graphite
rotating electrode.Puertas .I et al.,(2004) analysed     electrodes, respectively, while the copper always
the influence of EDM parameters on surface quality,      creates surface cracks under applied conditions.Che
MRR and EW of WC–Co and observed that for                Haron .C.H et al., (2001) investigated the influence
Ra,MRR and TWR the most influential factor is            of machining parameters when machining tool steel
intensity and the second is pulse time for Ra and        using EDM and observed that low current was
TWR and that the second influential factor for MRR       suitable for small diameter electrode and high
is duty cycle factor.Kansal .H.K et al.,(2007) studied   current for big diameter electrode.Lee .S.H, and Li
the effect of Silicon Powder Mixed EDM on                .X.P,(2001) studied the effect of machining
Machining Rate of AISI D2 Die Steel and observed         parameters on the machining characteristics in
that Peak current, concentration of the silicon          electrical discharge machining of tungsten carbide
powder, pulse-on time, pulse-off time, and gain          and observed that the material removal rate
significantly affect the MR in PMEDM, Peak               decreases gradually with the flushing pressure, and
current and concentration of silicon powder are the      becomes constant at higher values of flushing
most influential parameters for causing material         pressure, and that there is a maximum material
removal and the nozzle flushing when applied at the      removal rate with pulse duration at all current
interface of tool electrode and work piece does not      setting.
significantly affect the MRR.
                                                                 Shankar Singh et al.,(2004) performed
        Puertas .I, and Luis .C.J,(2003) conducted a     investigations into the electric discharge machining
study on the machining parameters optimisation of        of hardened tool steel using different electrode
electrical discharge machining and observed the          materials and observed that for the EN-31 work
factor having the most important influence on the        material, copper and aluminium electrodes offer
surface roughness is the factor of intensity, also it    higher MRR, Copper and copper–tungsten
has been observed that there is a strong interaction     electrodes offer comparatively low electrode wear
between the I and the ti factors being advisable to      for the tested work material, and aluminium
work with high I values and low ti values.Ming-Guo       electrode also shows good results while brass wears
Her, and Feng-Tsai Weng,(2002) performed a study         the most, of all the tested electrodes. Lonardo .P.M,
of the electrical discharge machining of semi-           Bruzzone .A.A,(1999) studied the effect of Flushing
conductor BaTiO3 and understood that for the EDM         and Electrode Material on Die Sinking EDM and
of semi-conductor BaTiO3 positive polarity               observed that the electrode material has significant
machining should be selected to ensure better            influence in finishing operations on wear and height
surface roughness, minimum surface roughness can         roughness parameters. When copper electrodes are
be achieved using GA, and to avoid the work piece        used wear is larger and surface height is smaller and
being broken the discharge current cannot exceed         that flushing in roughing operations increases both
0.25 A and the on-pulse cannot exceed                    MRR and electrode wear. In finishing operations
10µs.Velusamy Senthilkumar, and Bidwai Uday              flushing influences the form parameters.Lauwers .B
Omprakash,(2011) studied the effect of Titanium          et al.,(2004) investigated the material removal
Carbide particle addition in the aluminium               mechanisms in EDM of composite ceramic
composite on EDM process parameters and found            materials and points out that besides the typical
that the flushing pressure plays an important role in    EDM material removal mechanisms, such as
continuing the process and improving the material        melting     /evaporation     and     spalling,  other
removal rate at higher discharge current and pulse       mechanisms can occur such as the oxidation and
duration levels.                                         decomposition of the base material.

        Ahmet Hascalık, Ulas          Caydas,(2007)             From the various literatures that has been
performed electrical discharge machining of              reviewed it is understood that much work has not
titanium alloy (Ti–6Al–4V) and observed that the         been done with the machining of EN-31, which
electrode material has an obvious effect on the white    happens to be a widely used material in the
layer thickness, surface crack density is related to     manufacturing of ball and roller bearings, spinning
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tools, beading rolls, punches and dies. EN-31 is a
high carbon alloy steel which achieves a high degree
of hardness with compressive strength and abrasion
resistance. By its character, this type of steel has
high resisting nature against wear and can be used
for components which are subjected to severe
abrasion, wear or high surface loading.

3. Experimental Details
 1.1. Workpiece material
        In this study, EN–31 tool steel (IS
designation: T105 Cr 1 Mn 60) was selected as the
workpiece material. The material was purchased as
raw stock in the dimensions of 135 x 80 x 45 mm
                                                                Figure 1 Copper tool electrode
and then cut into slabs of dimension 75 x 35 x 8.5
mm. The chemical composition of EN–31 material
used is shown in table 1.

          Table1 Composition of EN – 31
    Elements              % Composition
    Carbon                1.08
    Silicon               0.183
    Copper                0.003
    Manganese             0.452
    Phosphorous           0.023
    Sulphur               0.0195
    Molybdenum            0.07
    Chromium              1.19
    Lead                  0.005
    Titanium              0.002                                   Figure 2 Aluminium tool electrode
    Vanadium              0.003
    Aluminium             0.057                         Table 2 shows the chemical composition of the tool
    Iron                  96.9125                       electrodes. Figure 1 and 2 shows the copper and
                                                        Aluminium electrodes respectively that were used
                                                        in the study




 The slabs are hardened by heating in a muffler
 furnace to a temperature of 840 ºC with a soaking
 period of 30 minutes after which it is removed from
 the furnace and is air hardened by keeping it in the
 open atmosphere. The hardness of the work
 material before and after hardening are 231.7 H. V
 and 695 H. V.

 1.2. Tool Material
 The various tool materials that were used in the
 study are copper, aluminium, and EN–24 each 35
 mm long of which 20 mm length is of 16 mm
 diameter for tool holding and the remaining 15 mm
 is of 10 mm diameter which is used for machining.


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                            Table 2 Chemical Composition of Tool Electrodes

                                     Copper                Aluminium            EN–24            Brass
Elements                             Electrode             Electrode            Electrode        Electrode
                                     % Composition
Lead                                 0.05                                                        2.943
Tin                                  0.15                  0.005                                 0.246
Zinc                                 0.28                  0.0081                                36.476
Oxygen                               0.22
Copper                               99.3                  0.21                 0.063            59.756
Silicon                                                    0.585                0.273            0.034
Iron                                                       0.289                96.1878          0.110
Manganese                                                  0.202                0.482            0.02
Magnesium                                                  0.902
Nickel                                                     0.0005               0.997            0.058
Chromium                                                   0.165                1.278
Aluminium                                                  97.6334              0.018
Phosphorous                                                                     0.0192           0.087
Arsenic                                                                                          0.092
Antimony                                                                                         0.156
Bismuth                                                                                          0.002
Sulphur                                                                         0.032            0.017
Carbon                                                                          0.432
Molybdenum                                                                      0.217
Titanium                                                                        0.001

4. Experimental procedure
  The machining process is carried out in
  ELECTRONICA EMS5030 ELEKTRA PRIDE –
  Z, the workpiece is mounted on the V- block which
  is placed on the magnetic table of the machine. The
  tool is placed on the tool holder and its alignment is
  checked with the help of dial gauge. The number of
  runs was decided to be eighteen with different
  parameter combinations based on Taguchi’s
  Orthogonal Array. The input parameters that were
  varied for this study are supply current, flushing
  pressure, pulse-on time and tool material. Table 3
  presents the experimental conditions used in the
  study. Figure 3 shows the machining process.

                                                                     Figure 3 Machining Process underway

  .




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                      Table 3 Design scheme of experimental parameters for EDM
                      Experimental Conditions
                      Supply current             8, 12 and 14 A
                      Flushing pressure          10, 15 and 20 lb/sq. inch
                      Pulse-on time              38, 48 and 58 µsec
                      Pulse-off time             9µsec
                      Electrode material         Cu, Al and EN-24
                      Electrode polarity         Positive
                      Dielectric used            Kerosene
                      Dielectric flushing        Injection flushing




There were few unforeseen problems faced              Figure 4 Electrode with centre hole
during the machining process,                                 b.        The third electrode which was
         a.       Even though the machining                   initially chosen to be brass, underwent
         diameter (Φ 10mm) was small the side                 excessive wear and extended machining
         flushing technique was not effective in              time. Therefore it was replaced with
         cleaning the machined surface there by               graphite as it is a good tool material for
         resulting in carbon deposits due to which            EDM. The chemical composition of this
         material removal ceased. Hence a 3mm hole            brass material is presented in Table 2.
         was drilled through the centre of the tool           c.        But when graphite (shown in
         electrode (as shown in Figure 4) and                 Figure 5) was used, the machining surface of
         injection flushing was adapted.                      the tool happened to disintegrate into
                                                              powder and deposited on the blind hole in
                                                              the work material. As a result arcing
                                                              occurred and more over the brittle nature of
                                                              graphite made it difficult to align in the tool
                                                              holder due to that the electrode brokens (as
                                                              shown in Figure 6). Hence the third tool
                                                              material was chosen to be EN-24, since it
                                                              had similar properties to EN-31 and to carry
                                                              out with metal – metal machining. The
                                                              reason for choosing this material is because
                                                              not much work has been carried out with
                                                              metal to metal combination, hence to figure
                                                              it out its effect and influence we used it as
                                                              an electrode material. The purity of the
                                                              graphite used was found to be 86.348% and
                                                              the density was 1.87 gm/cc. Figure 7 shows
                                                              the graphite electrode after machining.




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                                                     Mitutoyo SJ-201, LC 0.001µm) was used, giving
                                                     the Ra values in µm. The same experiment was
                                                     repeated with different electrode materials and
                                                     experimental conditions.

                                                     5. Results and discussions
                                                     5.1. Material removal rate
                                                             Material removal rate (MRR) is the amount
                                                     of material removed in unit time of machining.
                                                     From the Figures 8, 9 and 10 we understand that the
                                                     MRR increases with increase in supply current with
                                                     copper electrode showing good response even
                                                     though it has low MRR with 8A it increases with
        Figure 5 Graphite electrodes
                                                     consecutive increase in current. Increase in flushing
                                                     pressure has a negative influence with Al and EN-24
                                                     electrodes but with copper it gives a positive result
                                                     with increasing MRR. The variation of pulse-on
                                                     time increases the MRR at first but goes down with
                                                     the next consecutive increase, but with Al as
                                                     electrode is shows similar effect as the variation
                                                     with current. Overall, it can be inferred that copper
                                                     electrode has the highest MRR than the other
                                                     electrodes under most of the varied values of input
                                                     parameters.



                                                                                           Interaction Plot for MRR
                                                                                                   Data Means
                                                                          40                                                       Electrode
                                                                                                                                   Al
                                                                          35                                                       Cu
                                                                                                                                   En-24

                                                                          30
        Figure 6 Broken graphite
                                                                          25
                                                                   Mean




                                                                          20

                                                                          15

                                                                          10

                                                                          5
                                                                                    8             12                    14
                                                                                                Current




                                                           Figure 8 MRR vs. Current, Electrode


                                                                                        Interaction Plot for MRR
                                                                                               Data Means
                                                                   40                                                        Electrode
                                                                                                                             Al
                                                                   35                                                        Cu
                                                                                                                             En-24

                                                                   30

                                                                   25
                                                            Mean




Figure 7 Used graphite electrodes                                  20

                                                                   15
        With the above said modification the
                                                                   10
 machining process was carried out and after
                                                                   5
 machining each hole both the tool and the work                                10              15                  20
                                                                                            Pressure
 piece are thoroughly cleaned using alcohol and
 their weight was measured using precision balance        Figure 9 MRR vs. Pressure, Electrode
 (max. 200g). A surface roughness tester (make:



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                              Interaction Plot for MRR
                                     Data Means
              40                                                           Electrode
                                                                           Al
              35                                                           Cu
                                                                           En-24

              30

              25
       Mean




              20

              15

              10

              5
                       38             48                      58
                                Pulse on time


          Figure 10 MRR vs. Pulse on time, Electrode

   5.2. Tool wear rate
           The loss of tool material in the process of machining in unit time of machining is known as tool wear
   rate (TWR).From the Figure 11,12 and 13 it can be observed that the variation in machining parameters does
   not have much impact when copper or EN-24 is used as tool electrode but when Al electrode is used it is
   observed that the TWR is high overall. So amongst electrodes with lesser TWR and machining parameter
   influence, copper and EN-24, the TWR is the least for copper on the whole..

                            Interaction Plot for TWR
                                   Data Means

                                                                        Electrode
                                                                                                                                      Interaction Plot for TWR
         5                                                              Al                                                                   Data Means
                                                                        Cu
                                                                                                                                                                       Electrode
                                                                        En-24                                         5                                                Al
         4
                                                                                                                                                                       Cu
                                                                                                                                                                       En-24
                                                                                                                      4
         3
Mean




                                                                                                                      3
         2
                                                                                                               Mean




                                                                                                                      2
         1

                                                                                                                      1
         0

                   8              12                     14
                                                                                                                      0
                                Current
                                                                                                                               10           15                   20
                                                                                                                                         Pressure


         Figure 11 TWR vs. Current, Electrode                                                                         Figure 12 TWR vs. Pressure, Electrode


                                                                               Interaction Plot for TWR
                                                                                          Data Means

                                                                                                                          Electrode
                                                          5                                                               Al
                                                                                                                          Cu
                                                                                                                          En-24
                                                          4


                                                          3
                                                  Mean




                                                          2


                                                          1


                                                          0

                                                                   38                     48              58
                                                                                    Pulse on time




                                                         Figure 13 TWR vs. Pulse on, Electrode




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  5.3. Surface roughness
  The figures 14, 15 and 16 indicate the variation in the surface roughness of the machined hole due to the
  influence of the machining parameters. It is found that the variation in the surface roughness of the machined
  hole varies erratically for all electrodes but when copper is used as tool electrode the variation is less.
                                                                                                                                                   Interaction Plot for Surface Roughness
                     Interaction Plot for Surface Roughness                                                                                                         Data Means
                                   Data Means
                                                                                                                                                                                                   Electrode
                                                                                                                                6.0                                                                Al
                                                                        Electrode
       6.0                                                              Al                                                                                                                         Cu
                                                                        Cu                                                      5.5                                                                En-24
       5.5                                                              En-24


                                                                                                                                5.0
       5.0




                                                                                                                         Mean
                                                                                                                                4.5
Mean




       4.5

                                                                                                                                4.0
       4.0

       3.5                                                                                                                      3.5


       3.0                                                                                                                      3.0

                8                  12                     14                                                                                  10                    15            20
                                 Current                                                                                                                         Pressure


       Figure 14 Surface Roughness vs. Current,Electrode                                                Figure 15 Surface Roughness vs. Pressure,Electrode

                                                                      Interaction Plot for Surface Roughness
                                                                                           Data Means

                                                                                                                                      Electrode
                                                           6.0                                                                        Al
                                                                                                                                      Cu
                                                           5.5                                                                        En-24



                                                           5.0
                                                   Mean




                                                           4.5

                                                           4.0

                                                           3.5

                                                           3.0

                                                                 38                         48                      58
                                                                                      Pulse on time


                                                  Figure 16 Surface Roughness vs. Pulse on, Electrode

  4.3. Taper
  Taper is the angular measure of the change in the
  diameter of hole made between the opening of the
  hole and its corresponding end, it is a result of tool
  wear. Form the figures 17,18 and 19, it can be
  understood that copper electrode has the least taper
  with respect to the other electrodes and also it has the
  least influence with the machining parameters.
                            Interaction Plot for Taper                                                                                  Interaction Plot for Taper
                                     Data Means                                                                                                     Data Means

                                                                                                                                                                                       Electrode
         5                                                                Electrode                             5
                                                                          Al                                                                                                           Al
                                                                          Cu                                                                                                           Cu
                                                                          En-24                                                                                                        En-24
         4                                                                                                      4


         3                                                                                                      3
  Mean




                                                                                                         Mean




         2
                                                                                                                2


         1
                                                                                                                1

         0
                 8                 12                      14                                                   0
                                 Current                                                                                 38                       48                    58
                                                                                                                                            Pulse on time

         Figure 17 Taper vs. Current, Electrode
                                                                                                                Figure 18 Taper vs. Pressure, Electrode




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                                                                     influence of machining parameters when
                      Interaction Plot for Taper
                              Data Means                             machining tool steel using EDM, Journal of
                                                    Electrode
       5
                                                    Al
                                                    Cu
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  • 1. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 Investigation on the Effect Of Process Parameters For Machining Of EN31 (Air Hardened Steel) By EDM 1 N.Arunkumar 1*, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof 2 and R.Vivek 2 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai -600 119, TamilNadu, India 2 Graduate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai -600 119, TamilNadu, India Abstract This paper presents the results of and quick recovery after breakdown, effective experimental work carried out in electrical quenching and flushing ability .Rajurkar discharge machining (EDM) of EN31 (air .K.P,(1986);Soni .J.S,(1994) investigated the hardened steel) using three different tool responses by controlling the electrical parameters, materials namely copper, aluminium and EN24, removal of material may be confined to some extent and also the problems involved in using graphite to the workpiece. Wear of the tool (electrode), and brass as tool material. The machining however, cannot be ignored because when this process was carried out at three different supply occurs the geometrical characteristics of the current levels (8Amps, 12Amps, 14Amps), electrode will not be reproduced on the workpiece. flushing pressure levels (10lb/sq. in, 15lb/sq. in, The surface generated by EDM consists of debris, 20lb/sq. in) and pulse-on time (38µsec, 48µsec, which has been melted or vaporized during 58µsec), and their influence on surface machining, lying on or incorporated into the roughness, material removal rate, tool wear rate cratered spark-eroded surface. This resulting and taper. product of the erosion process, commonly known as debris, has an important relation to the various Keywords: EDM; Supply current; aspects of EDM. Flushing pressure; Pulse-on time; In this study EN-31 high carbon tool steel is Surface roughness; Material removal used as the work material and investigations were rate; Tool wear rate; Taper carried out on the material removal rate, tool wear rate, taper and surface finish using different 1. Introduction electrode materials and experimental parameters. Electrical Discharge Machining is now one of the main methods used in die production and has 2. Literature Review good accuracy and precision with no direct physical Review of the research work reveals that contact between the electrodes so that no much work has been done on various aspects of mechanical stress is exerted on the work piece stated electro-discharge machining on low carbon steels, by Jose Marafona and Catherine carbides and few die-steels with only one or two Wykes,(2000).Wong .Y.S et al.,(1995) described electrode materials.Jose Mara and Catherine Wykes, material removal is achieved by preferential erosion (2000) have found that it is possible to improve the of the workpiece electrode as controlled discrete material removal rate for a given tool wear ratio discharges are passed between the tool and the using two-stage processing method. This work has workpiece in a dielectric medium . Pandey .P.C and led to the development of a two-stage EDM Shan .H.S,(2009) stated that this process is required machining process where different EDM settings are to be carried out in absence of oxygen so that the used for the two stages of the process giving a process can be controlled and oxidation avoided. significantly improved material removal rate for a Oxidation often leads to poor surface conductivity given tool wear ratio.Narender Singh .P et al., (electrical) of the workpiece hindering further (2004) have performed the optimization by grey machining. Hence, dielectric fluid should provide an relational analysis of EDM parameters and observed oxygen free machining environment .Wong .Y.S et that this technique converts the multiple response al.,(1995) described characteristics required of a variable to a single response grey relational grade dielectric used in EDM are high dielectric strength and, therefore, simplifies the optimization procedure. 1111 | P a g e
  • 2. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 Yan-Cherng Lina et al.,(2009) performed the Han-Ming Chow et al., (2000) performed a optimization of machining parameters in magnetic study of added powder in kerosene for the micro-slit force assisted EDM based on Taguchi method and machining of titanium alloy using electro-discharge observed that the machined surface of standard machining.Manoj Mathew and Rajendrakumar .P.K, EDM depicted more obvious micro-cracks than that (2011) studied the optimization of process of magnetic force assisted EDM.Petropoulos .G et parameters of boro-carburized low carbon steel for al.,(2004) have done modeling of surface finish in tensile strength by Taquchi method with grey electro-discharge machining based upon statistical relational analysis and observed that the optimal multi-parameter analysis and identified that the process parameters and their levels for pre- mutually independent parameters such as Ra and carburized AISI 1015 steel are carbon content Wa, Rsk, Rku, β, D are considered to make-up a 0.45% at 950 C temperature and 4 h process minimum set for surface texture description duration. The results revealed that process time, case regarding both industrial quality control and carbon content and process temperature influenced research.Lin .J.L and Lin .C.L,(2002) performed a the yield strength and % elongation. The ultimate study on the use of the orthogonal array with grey strength is influenced by the process temperature, relational analysis to optimize the electrical process time and carbon content. The process discharge machining process with multiple temperature was the most influential control factor performance characteristic and found that a grey that affects the tensile strength properties.George relational analysis of the experimental results of .P.M et al., (2004) performed EDM machining of electrode wear ratio, material removal rate and carbon–carbon composite—a Taguchi approach and surface roughness can convert optimization of the observed that the process variables affecting multiple performance characteristics into electrode wear rate and MRR, according to their optimization of a single performance characteristic relative significance, are Vg, Ip and Ton, called the grey relational grade.Lina .J.L et respectively and, Ton is insignificant. al.,(2000) performed the optimization of the electrical discharge machining process based on the Krishna Mohana Rao .G et al., (2009) Taguchi method with fuzzy logics and fount that the developed a hybrid model and optimized the surface performance characteristics such as EWR and MRR roughness in electric discharge machining using can be improved through this approach. artificial neural networks and genetic. The experiments are carried out on Ti6Al4V, HE15, Kansal .H.K et al.,(2005) studied the 15CDV6 and M 250. Multiperceptron neural Parametric optimization of powder mixed electrical network models were developed using Neuro discharge machining by response surface Solutions package. Genetic algorithm concept is methodology and observed that there is discernible used to optimize the weighting factors of the improvement in surface roughness of the work network. Chena .S.L et al., (2007) performed surfaces and MRR after suspending the silicon Electrical discharge machining of TiNiCr and powder into the dielectric fluid of EDM.Joshi .S.N TiNiZr ternary shape memory alloys and observed and Pande .S.S,(2011) conducted an intelligent that the roughness of EDMed surface increases with process modelling and optimization of die-sinking the discharge current and pulse duration and the electric discharge machining and inferred that the thickness of the recast layer for the EDMed TiNiX proposed integrated (FEM–ANN–GA) approach alloys varies with the pulse duration and exhibits a was found efficient and robust as the optimum minimum value at the maximal MRR. They process parameters suggested were found to give the observed that the hardening effect near the outer expected optimum performance of the EDM surface for EDMed TiNiX alloys originates from the process. It also provides flexibility to the user to recast layer. The EDMed TiNiX alloys still exhibit a choose optimum parameters suiting specific shop nearly perfect shape recovery at a normal bending needs.Katsushi Furutani et al.,(2001) investigated strain, but slight degradation of shape recovery the accretion of titanium carbide by electrical occurs at a higher bending strain due to the discharge machining with powder suspended in constrained effect on the TiNiX matrix by the recast working fluid and observed that after considering layer. flow of working fluid during EDM,we find two appropriate shapes for accretion EDM with powder suspended in the working fluid: a thin electrode and 1112 | P a g e
  • 3. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 a rotating disk electrode, TiC layer can be accreted average white layer thickness and the thicker the by using a thin electrode to keep the powder white layer the lower the surface crack density was concentration high, and a wider area with uniform obtained, surface cracking can be eliminated after 6 thickness can be deposited with a gear shaped and 3 A pulse currents for aluminium and graphite rotating electrode.Puertas .I et al.,(2004) analysed electrodes, respectively, while the copper always the influence of EDM parameters on surface quality, creates surface cracks under applied conditions.Che MRR and EW of WC–Co and observed that for Haron .C.H et al., (2001) investigated the influence Ra,MRR and TWR the most influential factor is of machining parameters when machining tool steel intensity and the second is pulse time for Ra and using EDM and observed that low current was TWR and that the second influential factor for MRR suitable for small diameter electrode and high is duty cycle factor.Kansal .H.K et al.,(2007) studied current for big diameter electrode.Lee .S.H, and Li the effect of Silicon Powder Mixed EDM on .X.P,(2001) studied the effect of machining Machining Rate of AISI D2 Die Steel and observed parameters on the machining characteristics in that Peak current, concentration of the silicon electrical discharge machining of tungsten carbide powder, pulse-on time, pulse-off time, and gain and observed that the material removal rate significantly affect the MR in PMEDM, Peak decreases gradually with the flushing pressure, and current and concentration of silicon powder are the becomes constant at higher values of flushing most influential parameters for causing material pressure, and that there is a maximum material removal and the nozzle flushing when applied at the removal rate with pulse duration at all current interface of tool electrode and work piece does not setting. significantly affect the MRR. Shankar Singh et al.,(2004) performed Puertas .I, and Luis .C.J,(2003) conducted a investigations into the electric discharge machining study on the machining parameters optimisation of of hardened tool steel using different electrode electrical discharge machining and observed the materials and observed that for the EN-31 work factor having the most important influence on the material, copper and aluminium electrodes offer surface roughness is the factor of intensity, also it higher MRR, Copper and copper–tungsten has been observed that there is a strong interaction electrodes offer comparatively low electrode wear between the I and the ti factors being advisable to for the tested work material, and aluminium work with high I values and low ti values.Ming-Guo electrode also shows good results while brass wears Her, and Feng-Tsai Weng,(2002) performed a study the most, of all the tested electrodes. Lonardo .P.M, of the electrical discharge machining of semi- Bruzzone .A.A,(1999) studied the effect of Flushing conductor BaTiO3 and understood that for the EDM and Electrode Material on Die Sinking EDM and of semi-conductor BaTiO3 positive polarity observed that the electrode material has significant machining should be selected to ensure better influence in finishing operations on wear and height surface roughness, minimum surface roughness can roughness parameters. When copper electrodes are be achieved using GA, and to avoid the work piece used wear is larger and surface height is smaller and being broken the discharge current cannot exceed that flushing in roughing operations increases both 0.25 A and the on-pulse cannot exceed MRR and electrode wear. In finishing operations 10µs.Velusamy Senthilkumar, and Bidwai Uday flushing influences the form parameters.Lauwers .B Omprakash,(2011) studied the effect of Titanium et al.,(2004) investigated the material removal Carbide particle addition in the aluminium mechanisms in EDM of composite ceramic composite on EDM process parameters and found materials and points out that besides the typical that the flushing pressure plays an important role in EDM material removal mechanisms, such as continuing the process and improving the material melting /evaporation and spalling, other removal rate at higher discharge current and pulse mechanisms can occur such as the oxidation and duration levels. decomposition of the base material. Ahmet Hascalık, Ulas Caydas,(2007) From the various literatures that has been performed electrical discharge machining of reviewed it is understood that much work has not titanium alloy (Ti–6Al–4V) and observed that the been done with the machining of EN-31, which electrode material has an obvious effect on the white happens to be a widely used material in the layer thickness, surface crack density is related to manufacturing of ball and roller bearings, spinning 1113 | P a g e
  • 4. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 tools, beading rolls, punches and dies. EN-31 is a high carbon alloy steel which achieves a high degree of hardness with compressive strength and abrasion resistance. By its character, this type of steel has high resisting nature against wear and can be used for components which are subjected to severe abrasion, wear or high surface loading. 3. Experimental Details 1.1. Workpiece material In this study, EN–31 tool steel (IS designation: T105 Cr 1 Mn 60) was selected as the workpiece material. The material was purchased as raw stock in the dimensions of 135 x 80 x 45 mm Figure 1 Copper tool electrode and then cut into slabs of dimension 75 x 35 x 8.5 mm. The chemical composition of EN–31 material used is shown in table 1. Table1 Composition of EN – 31 Elements % Composition Carbon 1.08 Silicon 0.183 Copper 0.003 Manganese 0.452 Phosphorous 0.023 Sulphur 0.0195 Molybdenum 0.07 Chromium 1.19 Lead 0.005 Titanium 0.002 Figure 2 Aluminium tool electrode Vanadium 0.003 Aluminium 0.057 Table 2 shows the chemical composition of the tool Iron 96.9125 electrodes. Figure 1 and 2 shows the copper and Aluminium electrodes respectively that were used in the study The slabs are hardened by heating in a muffler furnace to a temperature of 840 ºC with a soaking period of 30 minutes after which it is removed from the furnace and is air hardened by keeping it in the open atmosphere. The hardness of the work material before and after hardening are 231.7 H. V and 695 H. V. 1.2. Tool Material The various tool materials that were used in the study are copper, aluminium, and EN–24 each 35 mm long of which 20 mm length is of 16 mm diameter for tool holding and the remaining 15 mm is of 10 mm diameter which is used for machining. 1114 | P a g e
  • 5. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 Table 2 Chemical Composition of Tool Electrodes Copper Aluminium EN–24 Brass Elements Electrode Electrode Electrode Electrode % Composition Lead 0.05 2.943 Tin 0.15 0.005 0.246 Zinc 0.28 0.0081 36.476 Oxygen 0.22 Copper 99.3 0.21 0.063 59.756 Silicon 0.585 0.273 0.034 Iron 0.289 96.1878 0.110 Manganese 0.202 0.482 0.02 Magnesium 0.902 Nickel 0.0005 0.997 0.058 Chromium 0.165 1.278 Aluminium 97.6334 0.018 Phosphorous 0.0192 0.087 Arsenic 0.092 Antimony 0.156 Bismuth 0.002 Sulphur 0.032 0.017 Carbon 0.432 Molybdenum 0.217 Titanium 0.001 4. Experimental procedure The machining process is carried out in ELECTRONICA EMS5030 ELEKTRA PRIDE – Z, the workpiece is mounted on the V- block which is placed on the magnetic table of the machine. The tool is placed on the tool holder and its alignment is checked with the help of dial gauge. The number of runs was decided to be eighteen with different parameter combinations based on Taguchi’s Orthogonal Array. The input parameters that were varied for this study are supply current, flushing pressure, pulse-on time and tool material. Table 3 presents the experimental conditions used in the study. Figure 3 shows the machining process. Figure 3 Machining Process underway . 1115 | P a g e
  • 6. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 Table 3 Design scheme of experimental parameters for EDM Experimental Conditions Supply current 8, 12 and 14 A Flushing pressure 10, 15 and 20 lb/sq. inch Pulse-on time 38, 48 and 58 µsec Pulse-off time 9µsec Electrode material Cu, Al and EN-24 Electrode polarity Positive Dielectric used Kerosene Dielectric flushing Injection flushing There were few unforeseen problems faced Figure 4 Electrode with centre hole during the machining process, b. The third electrode which was a. Even though the machining initially chosen to be brass, underwent diameter (Φ 10mm) was small the side excessive wear and extended machining flushing technique was not effective in time. Therefore it was replaced with cleaning the machined surface there by graphite as it is a good tool material for resulting in carbon deposits due to which EDM. The chemical composition of this material removal ceased. Hence a 3mm hole brass material is presented in Table 2. was drilled through the centre of the tool c. But when graphite (shown in electrode (as shown in Figure 4) and Figure 5) was used, the machining surface of injection flushing was adapted. the tool happened to disintegrate into powder and deposited on the blind hole in the work material. As a result arcing occurred and more over the brittle nature of graphite made it difficult to align in the tool holder due to that the electrode brokens (as shown in Figure 6). Hence the third tool material was chosen to be EN-24, since it had similar properties to EN-31 and to carry out with metal – metal machining. The reason for choosing this material is because not much work has been carried out with metal to metal combination, hence to figure it out its effect and influence we used it as an electrode material. The purity of the graphite used was found to be 86.348% and the density was 1.87 gm/cc. Figure 7 shows the graphite electrode after machining. 1116 | P a g e
  • 7. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 Mitutoyo SJ-201, LC 0.001µm) was used, giving the Ra values in µm. The same experiment was repeated with different electrode materials and experimental conditions. 5. Results and discussions 5.1. Material removal rate Material removal rate (MRR) is the amount of material removed in unit time of machining. From the Figures 8, 9 and 10 we understand that the MRR increases with increase in supply current with copper electrode showing good response even though it has low MRR with 8A it increases with Figure 5 Graphite electrodes consecutive increase in current. Increase in flushing pressure has a negative influence with Al and EN-24 electrodes but with copper it gives a positive result with increasing MRR. The variation of pulse-on time increases the MRR at first but goes down with the next consecutive increase, but with Al as electrode is shows similar effect as the variation with current. Overall, it can be inferred that copper electrode has the highest MRR than the other electrodes under most of the varied values of input parameters. Interaction Plot for MRR Data Means 40 Electrode Al 35 Cu En-24 30 Figure 6 Broken graphite 25 Mean 20 15 10 5 8 12 14 Current Figure 8 MRR vs. Current, Electrode Interaction Plot for MRR Data Means 40 Electrode Al 35 Cu En-24 30 25 Mean Figure 7 Used graphite electrodes 20 15 With the above said modification the 10 machining process was carried out and after 5 machining each hole both the tool and the work 10 15 20 Pressure piece are thoroughly cleaned using alcohol and their weight was measured using precision balance Figure 9 MRR vs. Pressure, Electrode (max. 200g). A surface roughness tester (make: 1117 | P a g e
  • 8. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 Interaction Plot for MRR Data Means 40 Electrode Al 35 Cu En-24 30 25 Mean 20 15 10 5 38 48 58 Pulse on time Figure 10 MRR vs. Pulse on time, Electrode 5.2. Tool wear rate The loss of tool material in the process of machining in unit time of machining is known as tool wear rate (TWR).From the Figure 11,12 and 13 it can be observed that the variation in machining parameters does not have much impact when copper or EN-24 is used as tool electrode but when Al electrode is used it is observed that the TWR is high overall. So amongst electrodes with lesser TWR and machining parameter influence, copper and EN-24, the TWR is the least for copper on the whole.. Interaction Plot for TWR Data Means Electrode Interaction Plot for TWR 5 Al Data Means Cu Electrode En-24 5 Al 4 Cu En-24 4 3 Mean 3 2 Mean 2 1 1 0 8 12 14 0 Current 10 15 20 Pressure Figure 11 TWR vs. Current, Electrode Figure 12 TWR vs. Pressure, Electrode Interaction Plot for TWR Data Means Electrode 5 Al Cu En-24 4 3 Mean 2 1 0 38 48 58 Pulse on time Figure 13 TWR vs. Pulse on, Electrode 1118 | P a g e
  • 9. N.Arunkumar, H.Shareef Abdur Rawoof, R.Vivek / International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) ISSN: 2248-9622 www.ijera.com Vol. 2, Issue4, July-August 2012, pp.1111-1121 5.3. Surface roughness The figures 14, 15 and 16 indicate the variation in the surface roughness of the machined hole due to the influence of the machining parameters. It is found that the variation in the surface roughness of the machined hole varies erratically for all electrodes but when copper is used as tool electrode the variation is less. Interaction Plot for Surface Roughness Interaction Plot for Surface Roughness Data Means Data Means Electrode 6.0 Al Electrode 6.0 Al Cu Cu 5.5 En-24 5.5 En-24 5.0 5.0 Mean 4.5 Mean 4.5 4.0 4.0 3.5 3.5 3.0 3.0 8 12 14 10 15 20 Current Pressure Figure 14 Surface Roughness vs. Current,Electrode Figure 15 Surface Roughness vs. Pressure,Electrode Interaction Plot for Surface Roughness Data Means Electrode 6.0 Al Cu 5.5 En-24 5.0 Mean 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 38 48 58 Pulse on time Figure 16 Surface Roughness vs. Pulse on, Electrode 4.3. Taper Taper is the angular measure of the change in the diameter of hole made between the opening of the hole and its corresponding end, it is a result of tool wear. Form the figures 17,18 and 19, it can be understood that copper electrode has the least taper with respect to the other electrodes and also it has the least influence with the machining parameters. Interaction Plot for Taper Interaction Plot for Taper Data Means Data Means Electrode 5 Electrode 5 Al Al Cu Cu En-24 En-24 4 4 3 3 Mean Mean 2 2 1 1 0 8 12 14 0 Current 38 48 58 Pulse on time Figure 17 Taper vs. Current, Electrode Figure 18 Taper vs. Pressure, Electrode 1119 | P a g e
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