Experimental Modeling of EDMed Aluminum Metal Metrix Composite: A Review

Abstract

Electrical discharge machining is uttermost exploited material removal process broadly used in manufacturing industries for variegate shapes and difficult-to-machine electrically conductive materials. The nascent materials such as metal matrix composites, ceramic composites, duplex stainless steels, and titanium alloys have a vast demand in the area of automobiles, aircraft, aerospace, railways, and micro industries. The machining of these materials using conventional machining process is bonded to linear cutting to overcome this problem EDM was introduced. Many researchers have presented a vast work to understand the material removal mechanism of EDM and conclude that machining performance is mostly affected by process parameters. The machining performance can predict in appropriate way using process modeling techniques. The process modeling of materials like carbon nano-tube reinforced MMC is still needed a lot of research work. This paper includes review of AMC machining and experimental modeling using various methods such as RSM and ANN.