Effect of Silicon Carbide Powder Mixed EDM on Machining Characteristics of SS 316L Material

Abstract

In this paper Silicon Carbide(SiC) powders mixing into the dielectric fluid of EDM on machining characteristic of SS316 L materials has been proposed. Various process parameters namely peak current, pulse-on time, powder concentration, etc have been considered. The process performance is measured in terms of Response variables like Material Removal Rate (MRR) & Surface Roughness (SR). Number of experiments to be conducted is based on Taguchi orthogonal array with three level and three factors. The addition of SiC powder in Dielectric increases MRR and improves the Surface roughness of SS316L material. .