Performance and Surface Integrity of Wire Electrical Discharge Machining of Thin Ti6al4v Plate Using Coated and Uncoated Wires

Wire Electrical Discharge Machining (WEDM) is one of the most important production technologies to manufacture very accurate small components and tools on any electrical conductive material. Titanium and its alloys have been widely used in automobile and aerospace industry as well as in medical engineering field. Small components and tools with complex geometrical shapes are difficult to be produced on titanium alloys by both conventional and nonconventional machining technologies. In this work an experimental investigation on the influences of wire electrode type and electrical variables when...