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    Evaluation of micro-drilling technologies for metal injection molded 420 stainless steel

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    Silverman, David Elion
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    Samuel, Johnson; Walczyk, Daniel F.; Blanchet, Thierry A.;
    Date Issued
    2015-08
    Subject
    Mechanical engineering
    Degree
    MS;
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    This electronic version is a licensed copy owned by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Copyright of original work retained by author.;
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13015/1567
    Abstract
    Metal injection molded (MIM) 420 stainless steel is a commonly used material for high-value products such as fuel injector nozzles. However, the trade-offs involved in using different micro-drilling processes on this material are not well-documented in literature. This thesis presents a micro-drilling study of MIM 420 stainless steel using four candidate processes, viz., micro-electrical discharge drilling (micro-EDD), ultrasonically-assisted micro-EDD, micro-mechanical drilling (micro-MD) and ultrasonically-assisted micro-MD. The micro-EDD results shows that the use of ultrasonic vibrations significantly improves the overall process time, spark erosion efficiency and material removal rate of the process. However, this improvement comes at the expense of increased tool wear and surface roughness, especially while machining under high discharge energy conditions. The micro-MD results show that the use of ultrasonic vibrations is beneficial in lowering the thrust force, drilling torque and tool-wear at chipload values greater than the minimum chip thickness of the material. However, the ultrasonic vibrations do not have a notable effect on the surface roughness or on the size of the exit burrs. The results obtained from this study have been used to develop a Likert-type comparison scale to enable application-specific selection of micro-drilling processes for MIM 420 stainless steel. Finally, the benefits of using the ultrasonically-assisted micro-EDD process seen during the laboratory tests at Rensselaer were observed to carry over to the production environment of our NYSERDA funded industrial sponsor.;
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    August 2015; School of Engineering
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    Dept. of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering;
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    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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