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Some Effects of Electrolyte Flow Rates on the Electrochemical Machining Process

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Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference

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The characteristics of metal erosion are investigated under long flowpath conditions, when it is shown for a typical stainless steel that significant variations can occur in surface micro-finish in the electrolyte flow direction. Valency switches are also observed for this material, and it is demonstrated experimentally that the process is controlled by related electrolyte flow and erosion current density conditions. Similar effects are suggested during the machining of a low carbon steel. This paper reports part of a wider investigation into low flowpath ECM1.

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  1. GEC Power Engineering, UK

    P. J. Moir

  2. Lanchester Polytechnic, UK

    S. J. Harvey

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  1. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK

    F. Koenigsberger (Professor of Machine Tool Engineering) (Professor of Machine Tool Engineering)

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK

    S. A. Tobias (Chance Professor and Head of Department) (Chance Professor and Head of Department)

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Moir, P.J., Harvey, S.J. (1976). Some Effects of Electrolyte Flow Rates on the Electrochemical Machining Process. In: Koenigsberger, F., Tobias, S.A. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Machine Tool Design and Research Conference. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81544-9_40

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