Investigation and Optimization of EDM Milling and its Comparison with Die Sink EDM

Subject Areas : Mechanical Engineering

Mahmoud Moradi ¹ , Reza AbbasiRad ² , Majid Ghoreishi ³ , Hadi Abdollahi ⁴ , Majid Rostami ⁵

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malayer University, Malayer, Iran
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Urmia university of Technology, Urmia, Iran
5 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-03-05 Accepted : 2017-05-07 Published : 2017-11-06

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