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Design of Pulse Circuit of EDM Diesinker.

Subrat Kumar Barik1, P.S. Rao2
1M.Tech, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, CUTM, Odisha, India
2Professor, Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering, CUTM, Odisha, India

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Abstract - Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a non- the past few years to increase the material removal rates. As
traditional process that uses no mechanical forces to machine removal rate increases, the cost effectiveness of operations
metals. It is extremely useful in machining hard materials. also increase, stimulating ever greater uses of nontraditional
With the advantages, EDM has to offer and its presence as a process.
common and useable technique, along with the other The Electrical Discharge Machining process is employed
machining processes available to the industrial world, there is widely for making tools, dies and other precision parts.
an added strain on the environment. The scope of this paper EDM has been replacing drilling, milling, grinding and other
includes a simplified design and analyzing the power supply of traditional machining operations and is now a well-
EDM and the resulting outputs. A simplified model is used to established machining option in many manufacturing
analyze the process. The main categories of flow scrutinized in industries throughout the world. And is capable of
the model are material flow and energy flow. machining geometrically complex or hard material
components, that are precise and difficult-to machine such
as heat treated tool steels, composites, super alloys,
Key Words: Pulse generation, spark creation, circuit design, ceramics, carbides, heat resistant steels etc. being widely
555 timer, frequency control, voltage and current control. used in die and mold making industries, aerospace,
aeronautics and nuclear industries. Electric Discharge
Machining has also made its presence felt in the new fields
such as sports, medical and surgical, instruments, optical,
1. INTRODUCTION including automotive R&D areas.

Electro Discharge Machining (EDM) is an electro-thermal 1.1 EDM System

nontraditional machining Process, where electrical energy is
used to generate electrical spark and material removal
mainly occurs due to thermal energy of the spark.
The new concept of manufacturing uses non-conventional
energy sources like sound, light, mechanical, chemical,
electrical, electrons and ions. With the industrial and
technological growth, development of harder and difficult to
machine materials, which find wide application in aerospace,
nuclear engineering and other industries owing to their high
strength to weight ratio, hardness and heat resistance Fig -1: Schematic dig. Of EDM
qualities has been witnessed. New developments in the field
of material science have led to new engineering metallic 1.2 EDM Working Principle
materials, composite materials and high tech ceramics
having good mechanical properties and thermal  It is a process of metal removal based on the
characteristics as well as sufficient electrical conductivity so principle of material removal by an interrupted
that they can readily be machined by spark erosion. Non- electric spark discharge between the electrode tool
traditional machining has grown out of the need to machine and the work piece.
these exotic materials. The machining processes are non-  In EDM, a potential difference is applied between
traditional in the sense that they do not employ traditional the tool and work piece.
tools for metal removal and instead they directly use other  Essential - Both tool and work materials are to be
forms of energy. The problems of high complexity in shape, conductors.
size and higher demand for product accuracy and surface  The tool and work material are immersed in a
finish can be solved through nontraditional methods. dielectric medium.
Currently, non-traditional processes possess virtually  Generally kerosene or deionized water is used as
unlimited capabilities except for volumetric material the dielectric medium.
removal rates, for which great advances have been made in

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 A gap is maintained between the tool and the work

piece.
 Depending upon the applied potential difference
(50 to 200 V) and the gap between the tool and
work piece, an electric field would be established. Fig -2: Required pulse
 Generally the tool is connected to the negative
terminal (cathode) of the generator and the work  Upon withdrawal of potential difference, plasma
piece is connected to positive terminal (anode). channel collapses.
 As the electric field is established between the tool  This ultimately creates compression shock waves
and the job, the free electrons on the tool are on both the electrode surface.
subjected to electrostatic forces.  Particularly at high spots on work piece surface,
 If the bonding energy of the electrons is less, which are closest to the tool.
electrons would be emitted from the tool.  This evacuates molten material and forms a crater
 Such emission of electrons are called or termed as around the site of the spark.
‘cold emission’.  The whole sequence of operation occurs within a
 The “cold emitted” electrons are then accelerated few microseconds.
towards the job through the dielectric medium.  Thus to summarize, the material removal in EDM
 As they gain velocity and energy, and start moving mainly occurs due to formation of shock waves as
towards the job, there would be collisions between the plasma channel collapse owing to
the electrons and dielectric molecules. discontinuation of applied potential difference
 Such collision may result in ionization of the  Generally the work piece is made positive and the
dielectric molecule. tool negative.
 Ionization depends on the ionization energy of the  Hence, the electrons strike the job leading to crater
dielectric molecule and the energy of the electron. formation due to high temperature and melting and
 As the electrons get accelerated, more positive ions material removal.
and electrons would get generated due to collisions.  Similarly, the positive ions impinge on the tool
 This cyclic process would increase the leading to tool wear.
concentration of electrons and ions in the dielectric  In EDM, the generator is used to apply voltage
medium between the tool and the job at the spark pulses between the tool and job.
gap.  A constant voltage is not applied. Only sparking is
 The concentration would be so high that the matter desired rather than arcing.
existing in that channel could be characterized as  Arcing leads to localized material removal at a
“plasma”. particular point whereas sparks get distributed all
 The electrical resistance of such plasma channel over the tool surface leading to uniform material
would be very less. removal.
 Thus all of a sudden, a large number of electrons
will flow from tool to job and ions from job to tool.
 This is called avalanche motion of electrons.
 Such movement of electrons and ions can be
visually seen as a spark.
 Thus the electrical energy is dissipated as the
thermal energy of the spark. Fig -3: Spark generation process
 The high speed electrons then impinge on the job
and ions on the tool. 2. Design of Pulse Circuit
 The kinetic energy of the electrons and ions on
impact with the surface of the job and tool Power supply converts AC to DC used to produce sparks
respectively would be converted into thermal between tool and work piece. Solid state rectifier is used to
energy or heat flux. convert AC to DC .A fraction of Dc power is used to generate a
 Such intense localized heat flux leads to extreme square wave signal with the help of an astable 555 multi-
instantaneous confined rise in temperature which vibrate oscillator. This signal triggers a bank of power
transistors that act as high speed switches to control the flow
would be in excess of 10,000oC.
of remaining DC power. It creates high power pulsed output
 Such localized extreme rise in temperature leads to
responsible for generating sparks between electrodes.
material removal.
 Material removal occurs due to instant vaporization Power supply should also be able to control the parameters
of the material as well as due to melting. like voltage, current, duration and frequency of a pulse, duty
 The molten metal is not removed completely but cycle and electrode polarity.
only partially.

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Fig -6: Arrangement of components on board

The transistor BC107 has three different regions.

 Active region

Fig -4: Schematic dig. Of pulse circuit  Suturing region

 Cutoff region
This is a pulse generator with adjustable duty cycle made Here active region has no use. In the saturation the saturation
with the 555 timer IC. The circuit is an astable multivibrator region it will be ON and maximum current will flow. In the
with a 50% pulse duty cycle. The difference from the cutoff region it will be OFF where minimum current will flow
standard design of a 555 timer is the resistance between pins means zero.
6 and 7 of the IC composed of P1, P2, R2, D1 and D2.
2.1 Simulation Result
The diodes D1 and D2 set a definite charging time for C1
which produces a 50% duty cycle in a normal case. The duty
cycle (n) is dependent on P1 and P2 in the following manner:
n = 1+P2/P1
If P2 = 0 (n=100%) then the frequency can be approximately
calculated with the following formula:
f = 0.69/ ((2*P1 + P2 +4.7kΩ)*C1)

Fig -7: Pulse formed through simulation

Table -1:

Pulse circuit component list

VALUE QUANTITY
ITEM NAME SPECIFICATION

Fig -5: Pulse circuit designed in NI-Multisim software Diode IN4148 - 2

IN4007 - 5
The total circuit is divided in to two parts. One is known as Diode

driver circuit, which produces the pulse of 12V and another Transistor
BC107
-
1
one is relay part, through which the required voltage can be
LM555 1
obtained. IC -

- 1
Electrolytic capacitor 10µF

- 1
Electrolytic capacitor 2200µF

- 2
Ceramic capacitor 0.01µF

- 1,1
Resistance 4.7kΩ,470Ω

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Variable resistance 1MΩ
electrode wear study on the EDM of silicon carbide, Journal
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Relay 32A,12V
896
- 1
Step down transformer 12V [8] P.M.George, B.K.Raghunath, “EDM machining of Carbon-
- 1
Carbon composite”.
Rectifier 5A

- 1
Capacitor 4700µF

- 1
Variac 0-270V

Fig -8: Practically spark generation

3. CONCLUSIONS

The above designed circuit shows the result that it can

produce pulse wave which is required for generation of
spark in the EDM diesinker. The duty cycle and frequency
can be adjusted according to our requirement. It can be very
useful for experiment purpose.

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