AbstractsEngineering

Stiff market competition and evergrowing demand for better newlinedurable and reliable products has brought about a material revolution which newlinehas greatly expanded the families of difficulttomachine materials namely newlinehigh carbon high chromium die steel stainless steel and super alloys newlineAdvanced materials play an increasingly important role in modern newlinemanufacturing industries especially in automobile metal forming and newlineaerospace applications Conventional machining of the above materials newlineproves to be uneconomical Electrochemical Machining ECM offers solution to the expanding need for machining of the above materials However it lacks in performance like poor surface finish high power consumption and higher operating cost newline newline%%%Reference p.151-158