Electrochemical Machining - Special Equipment and Applications in Aircraft Industry

Abstract

Electrochemical machining is an unique method of shaping in which, for optimal parameters tool has no wear, surface layer properties after machining are similar to the core material and surface quality and accuracy increase together with material removal rate increase. Such advantages of electrochemical machining, besides of some ecological problems, create industry interest in the range of manufacturing elements made of materials with special properties (i.e. turbine blades of flow aircrafts engines). In the paper the nowadays possibilities and recent practical application of electrochemical machining in aircraft have been presented.