Prediction of Tool Shape in Electrical Discharge Machining of EN31 Steel Using Machine Learning Techniques

In the electrical discharge machining (EDM) process, especially during the machining of hardened steels, changes in tool shape have been identified as one of the major problems. To understand the aforesaid dilemma, an initiative was undertaken through this experimental study. To assess the distortio...

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Autores principales: Arminder Singh Walia, Vineet Srivastava, Prashant S Rana, Nalin Somani, Nitin Kumar Gupta, Gurminder Singh, Danil Yurievich Pimenov, Tadeusz Mikolajczyk, Navneet Khanna
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/f6a2482ddea745439233f7a06ed7985a
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Sumario:In the electrical discharge machining (EDM) process, especially during the machining of hardened steels, changes in tool shape have been identified as one of the major problems. To understand the aforesaid dilemma, an initiative was undertaken through this experimental study. To assess the distortion in tool shape that occurs during the machining of EN31 tool steel, variations in tool shape were examined by monitoring the roundness of the tooltip before and after machining with a coordinate measuring machine. The change in out-of-roundness of the tooltip varied from 5.65 to 37.8 µm during machining under different experimental conditions. It was revealed that the input current, the pulse on time, and the pulse off time had most significant effect in terms of changes in the out-of-roundness values during machining. Machine learning techniques (decision tree, random forest, generalized linear model, and neural network) were applied for the prediction of changes in tool shape. It was observed that the results predicted by the random forest technique were more convincing. Subsequently, it was gathered from this examination that the usage of the random forest technique for the prediction of changes in tool shape yielded propitious outcomes, with high accuracy (93.67%), correlation (0.97), coefficient of determination (0.94), and mean absolute error (1.65 µm) values. Hence, it was inferred that the random forest technique provided better results in terms of the prediction of tool shape.