The computer simulation of electrochemical shaping processes

Abstract

Electrochemical machining (ECM) is an important manufacture technology in machining difficult-to-cut materials and to shape complicated contours and profiles with high material removal rate without tool wear and without inducing residual stress. This paper presents the physical and mathematical models on the basis of which of the simulation process module in the computer-aided engineering system (CAE-ECM) for ECM has been developed. The results of computer simulation of electrochemical sinking and examples of CAE-ECM system application are discussed. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media.