Analysis and modelling of edm parameters

Abstract Metal removal in electro-discharge machining (edm) is basically a thermal erosion process where the heat transfer is predominantly through conduction. In this paper, a two-dimensional heat transfer model, assuming the plasma channel to be a disc heat source, has been employed to study the effects of edm input parameters, such as pulse duration, pulse energy and material properties, on metal removal and crater shape. Reasons for somewhat poor correlation between theoretical and experimental data are discussed.