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Laser-Assisted Jet Electrochemical Machining of Titanium-Based Biomedical Alloy

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Titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) is best among various metallic materials for making medical implants due to their longer life and surface topology to promote osseointegration. Ti-6Al-4V has excellent mechanical properties as well as superior biological properties along with higher corrosion resistance. For an implant material, its machining plays an important role to make it fit for the medical applications. This chapter mainly focuses on machining and surface characteristics of Ti-6Al-4V when machined with laser-assisted jet electrochemical machining process. The Taguchi methodology-based design of experiments L25 (55) employed to study the effect of various parameters of the developed LAJECM setup on various response characteristics is investigated and explained with the help of S/N ratio, analysis of variance, and scanning electron micrograph.

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Abbreviations

ANOVA:

Analysis of variance

DC :

Duty cycle

EC :

Electrolyte concentration

ECM:

Electrochemical machining

EFR :

Electrolyte flow rate

HUAT:

Hot ultrasonically assisted turning

IEG :

Inter-electrode gap

JECM:

Jet electrochemical machining

LAJECM:

Laser-assisted jet electrochemical machining

LAM:

Laser-assisted machining

LAMM:

Laser-assisted micro-milling

MRR:

Material removal rate

SV :

Supply voltage

UAT:

Ultrasonic-assisted turning

UVAD:

Ultrasonic vibration-assisted drilling

UVAG:

Ultrasonic vibration-assisted grinding

UVAT:

Ultrasonic vibration-assisted tapping

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, 302017, Rajasthan, India

    Anup Malik

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Alakesh Manna

  3. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, 144411, Punjab, India

    Chander Prakash & Sunpreet Singh

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

    Chander Prakash

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

    Sunpreet Singh

  3. Department of Production Engineering, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

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  4. Centre for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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  5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh, India

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  6. Center for Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

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  7. School of Engineering, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

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Malik, A., Manna, A., Prakash, C., Singh, S. (2019). Laser-Assisted Jet Electrochemical Machining of Titanium-Based Biomedical Alloy. In: Prakash, C., et al. Biomanufacturing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13951-3_9

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