Effect of Wire-EDM cutting parameters on material removal rate of titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V)

In this study, titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) which is also known as difficult to cut material is used as workpiece. Seven main parameters namely pulse duration (A), pulse interval (B), servo voltage (C), ignition pulse current (D), wire tension (E), wire speed (F) and dielectric pressure (G) have been experimentally studied by using Taguchi method as well as the determination of optimum parameters for material removal rate (MRR). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) has been used for recognizing the level of significant of WEDM cutting parameter for optimizing MRR and the result found that pulse duration and servo voltage give significant effect on MRR. While according to Signal to Noise (S/N) ratio response table for MRR, the parameters combination of A3B3C3D3E1F3G3 give the optimum value for MRR. It is also observed that the predicted results agree with the experimental values within an error of 4.6 %.