Study the effect of the graphite powder mixing electrical discharge machining on creation of surface residual stresses for AISI D2 die steel using design of experiments

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This paper attempted to study the induced surface residual stresses due the effect of Electrical discharge machining (EDM) input parameters, (the pulse current, the pulse-on time and the type of electrode).

The work included the use of two types of electrode, the copper and graphite as well as using or without using the graphite powder mixing with the kerosene dielectric (PMEDM) for machining AISI D2 dies steel.

The response surface methodology (RSM) was used for design the experimental work matrices.

The analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used, and models were built to predict the surface residual stresses.

The obtained results showed that the minimum tensile surface residual stresses obtained when using the copper electrodes with pulse current (22 A) and pulse on duration (40 μs) when working with kerosene dielectric alone and (8 A) with (120 μs) when working with graphite powder mixing.

The results concluded that the using of graphite electrodes and kerosene dielectric alone or with powder mixing induced minimum residual stresses with pulse current (22 A) and pulse on duration (120 μs).

The copper electrodes with kerosene dielectric and graphite powder mixing improved the induced tensile residual stresses by about (80 %) lower than when using kerosene dielectric alone and about (50%) lower than with graphite electrodes and the kerosene dielectric alone or with graphite mixing powder.