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Travelling wire electro chemical spark machining (TWECSM) is a hybrid machining process; TWECSM is combination of electro chemical machining (ECM) and wire electric discharge machining (WEDM). This machining process can be effectively used for machining of difficult to machine non-conductive materials that are not possible to machine by non-conventional machining methods i.e. EDM, ECM and WEDM etc. Now a days the utilization of hybrid machining techniques are very much important to process advanced materials as the different types of advanced materials are developing by the modern research community. The non-conductive materials can be machined with the help of conventional machining processes but compromise with surface texture, accuracy, micron level slicing etc. Keeping in view, this chapter presents the detail overview about the hybrid TWECSM process. The design and development of TWECSM process, potential and effectiveness of the process, parametric optimization for effective application of this process etc. are also explained in the chapter.
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Malik, A., Manna, A. (2017). Travelling Wire Electrochemical Spark Machining: An Overview. In: Kibria, G., Bhattacharyya, B., Davim, J. (eds) Non-traditional Micromachining Processes. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52009-4_11
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