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Parametric Study of Photochemical Machining of Aluminium Using Taguchi Approach

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Advances in Mechanical Engineering

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This paper described a parametric optimization for photochemical machining process on aluminium work material. The study analysed the parametric effects of etching concentration, etching temperature, and etching time on the performance measures like, material removal rate, surface roughness and edge deviation of predefined boundary of area. Based on Taguchi L9 orthogonal array, the photochemical machining of aluminium was carried out using ferric chloride solution as etchant. Analysis of Variance showed the effects of different process parameters on performance measures. Overall evaluation criteria were formulated by desired weight percentage to material removal rate, surface roughness and edge deviation for achieving multi-objective condition. The optimum condition was found to be 400 g/L of etching concentration, 40 °C of etching temperature and 6 min of etching time. ANOVA of OEC showed that the etching temperature was the most significant factor for machining of aluminium workpiece.

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Abbreviations

Conc.:

Concentration

ED:

Edge Deviation

MRR:

Material Removal Rate

min:

Minute

OEC:

Overall Evaluation Criteria

QC:

Quality Characteristics

Ra:

Surface roughness

Temp.:

Temperature

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Acknowledgements

The authors expressed their sincere thanks and gratitude to Department of Mechanical Engineering of NIT Meghalaya and SERB-DST, for providing the facility of tools and machining set-up for doing the experimental research work.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, 793003, India

    Rashed Mustafa Mazarbhuiya & Maneswar Rahang

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  1. National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

    B. B. Biswal

  2. National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Shillong, Meghalaya, India

    Bikash Kumar Sarkar

  3. National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh, India

    P. Mahanta

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Mazarbhuiya, R.M., Rahang, M. (2020). Parametric Study of Photochemical Machining of Aluminium Using Taguchi Approach. In: Biswal, B., Sarkar, B., Mahanta, P. (eds) Advances in Mechanical Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0124-1_45

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