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      Graphite; Plasma Nitriding; Laser Hardening; Duplex process; EDM.

    • Abstract

       

      An untreated graphite electrode has been observed to have limited applications based on the wear behavior and mechanical properties in the Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) of superalloys. Hence, to reduce the wear of graphite electrodes below this level, a Plasma Nitriding (PN), Laser Hardening (LH) and a duplex process (PN + LH) on graphite electrodes are proposed to reduce the frontal and lateral wear. In this work, the influences of pulse duration, current and Silicon Nitride (SiN) added EDM oil on frontal and lateral wear of untreated and treated graphite electrodes are investigated. The hardness in untreated graphite and treated graphite electrode surfaces are also studied. The result confirmed that the duplex process produced graphite has 54% higher hardness as compared to the untreated/raw graphite. The 49% frontal and 42% lateral wear are reduced using a duplex process with 900 μs pulse duration.

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      JEYACHANDRAN VIVEK1 P VEERATHEVAR ARUL KUMAR1 KUZHANTHAI ANTON SAVIO LEWISE2 VIRUTHACHAAM VELMURUGAN3

      1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bharath Niketan Engineering College, Aundipatti, Tamil Nadu 625536, India
      2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore 641114, India
      3. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Veltech Rangarajan and Dr. Sagunlatha R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600062, India
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