Book description:

Today’s stringent design requirements and difficult-to-machine materials such as tough super alloys, ceramics, and composites, have made traditional machining processes costly and obsolete. As a result, manufacturers and machine design engineers are turning to advance machining processes. These machining processes utilizes electrical, chemical, and optimal sources of energy to bind, form and cut materials. El-Hofy rigorously explains how each of these advanced machining process work, their machining system components, process variables and industrial applications, making this book the perfect guide for anyone designing, researching or converting to a more advance machining process.

  • Includes a wide range of rapid prototyping techniques

  • Deals with electrochemical machining and related applications

  • Technical data for solving day to day shop floor problems

  • Process variables using simple empirical/mathematical formulas

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO MACHINES, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCESSES USED IN TODAY'S NONTRADITIONAL MACHINING Intended as a guide for working with some of the most difficult-to-machine materials such as superalloys, ceramics, and composites, Advanced Machining is a definitive reference for both nontraditional and hybrid machining processes. Within the covers of this book, you will find expert coverage of both electrical discharge machining as well as electrochemical machining. In addition, this book contains detailed information on topics such as advanced machining process work, machining system components, process variables, and industrial applications. This book is a "must have" for anyone who is designing, researching or converting to a more advance machining process.

INSIDE Advanced Machining Processes: Nontraditional and Hybrid Machining Processes * Material Removal * Mechanical Processes * Chemical Processes * Electrochemical Processes * Thermal Processes * Hybrid Electrochemical Processes * Hybrid Thermal Processes Material Addition Processes

Hassan El-Hofy

is a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Qatar University and an associate editor for Qatar Engineering Journal. He is also the chairman of the College Accreditation Committee (ABET) for the Mechanical Engineering Department and has 50 research papers related to nonconventional as well as hybrid machining processes.

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