Micro-electro Discharge Machining: Principles, Recent Advancements and Applications, 4th Edition
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "D：Materials and Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 74
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micro manufacturing; micro robotics; micro assembly; micro EDM; micro injection molding
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Interests: micro EDM; micro manufacturing; additive manufacturing; virtual prototyping
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Micro Electrical Discharge Machining (micro-EDM) is a thermo-electric and contactless process that is most suited to micro-manufacturing and high-precision machining, especially when difficult-to-cut materials, such as super alloys, composites, and electro conductive ceramics, are processed. Among the various micro-machining processes, micro-EDM is known to have many industrial applications, such ashigh-aspect-ratio micro holes for fuel injectors, high-precision moulds, and biomedical components. The main issues restricting the application of micro-EDM involve handling and fixturing, electrode and workpiece preparation, process parameter optimization, the identification and minimization of sources of errors as tool wear, and measurement issues.
In the recent past, numerous EDM systems were developed to perform micro- and nano-scale EDM. These systems use newer control strategies and optimization methodologies to perform the EDM processes.
This Special Issue pursues contributions (research papers, communications, and review articles) that focus on recent developments in micro-EDM machining. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Process mechanism modeling and simulation;
- Process monitoring and control;
- Parameters optimization;
- Tool wear management;
- Novel machine concept;
- New material processing;
- Dielectrics;
- High-aspect-ratio features and surface texturing;
- Hybrid machining;
- New application of micro-EDM process.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Irene Fassi
Dr. Francesco Modica
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- micro EDM
- parameters optimization
- process simulation
- tool wear
- difficult-to-cut material
