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  • Publication
    Cooling Capacity of Oil-in-Water Emulsion under wet Machining Conditions
    ( 2023)
    Nabbout, Kaissar
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    Sommerfeld, Martin
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    Barth, Enrico
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    Uhlmann, Eckart
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    Bock-Marbach, Benjamin
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    Kuhnert, Jörg
    Many industrial machining operations are carried out under wet machining conditions. Modelling and simulating fluid-structure-interactions and conjugate heat transfer are still a challenge nowadays. In this paper, temperature dependent heat transfer coefficients (HTC) h(T) are experimentally estimated for wet machining-like conditions in a jet cooling experiment. The transient temperature is thereby used to solve an Inverse Heat Transfer Problem for HTC function estimation. Determined HTC are applied as input in related jet cooling simulation using the Finite-Pointset-Method (FPM) to validate the modeling approach. Additionally, wet cutting simulations numerically highlight the influence of determined HTC h(T) on turning.
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    Novel Advances in Machine Tools, Tool Electrodes and Processes for High-Performance and High-Precision EDM
    ( 2022)
    Uhlmann, Eckart
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    Polte, Mitchel
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    Yabroudi, Sami
    High-performance electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a key technology for manufacturing high-precision components in a broad range of industrially relevant applications. Formation of debris in the working gap leads to arcing and short-circuits on the surface as well as related inaccuracies and process instabilities. Despite decades of research in the field of EDM excessive tool wear and limited process performance are still challenging. In order to overcome highly complex state-of-the-art challenges, dedicated processes, machine tools, peripheral systems, software, tool electrodes and technologies for the application of alternative dielectric fluids have been developed. Within this work novel advances in the development of a sophisticated dry EDM machine tool, including generator and process control technology based on open architecture, open source software, and commonly available machine tool components, are presented. Solutions for challenges regarding remaining debris and gas bubbles as well as related arc discharge and short-circuit pulses in sinking EDM are presented by new flushing methods, technologies and devices. A new system for inverted pressure flushing of a dielectric fluid in ED-drilling enables a highly efficient removal of debris and gas bubbles through the interior channels of the tool electrode. A new multi-luidic spindle system for EDM provides the ability to use performance- and material-related application of gaseous, near-dry and liquid dielectric fluids sequentially within a single machining process. Recent advances in tool electrode design, tool electrode material application, modification and production have led to essential process improvements. A helical tool electrode design significantly improved flushing conditions and related material removal rate in ED-drilling. Modification of ED-drilling tool electrode surfaces by thermal oxidation of copper reveals a promising approach to minimize ineffective discharges. Application of a specific mesophase-pitch carbon fiber with a diameter of df = 10 µm using a new process and handling technology enabled drilling holes with a diameter of dh = 25 µm. Next to the shown advances in EDM, efficient development of new process technologies could be enabled by using a specially adapted natural analogue algorithm software tool.
  • Publication
    Deliberate Surface Treatment of Zirconium Dioxide with Abrasive Brushing Tools
    ( 2022)
    Hoyer, Anton
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    Uhlmann, Eckart
    Brushing with bonded abrasives is a flexible finishing process used to reduce the roughness of technical surfaces. Although industrially widespread, especially for the finishing of metallic surfaces, insufficient knowledge of the motion, the material removal, and the wear behavior of the abrasive filaments complicates predictions of the work result. In particular, the reliable finishing of ceramics with bonded diamond grains proves difficult due to increased material removal rates, quickly leading to undesirable changes in the workpiece geometry. Based on technological investigations with abrasive brushing tools, this article provides insights into the surface finishing of zirconium dioxide with a focus on finding compromises between reduction in the surface roughness and alteration of the workpiece shape.
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    Comparing the performance of a nested to a continuous evolution strategy with covariance matrix adaption for optimization of drilling EDM
    ( 2022)
    Uhlmann, Eckart
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    Streckenbach, Jan
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    Polte, Mitchel
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    Osmanovic, M.
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    Schick, F.
    Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a complex manufacturing process where the correlation of the individual process parameters is not fully known. When introducing new materials or complex, individual geometries in EDM, a satisfactory vector of parameters for the process must be found. This challenge is often encountered in the aerospace industry as well as in mold and tool making. One previously successful method to tackle this challenge is the stochastic optimization procedure Evolutionary Strategy (ES). Utilizing an appropriately chosen objective function, the search for a suitable vector of input parameters may be formulated as a mathematical minimization problem over the parameter space. The ES with a covariance matrix adaption (CMA) was utilized to sample from this parameter space in a stochastic manner. Examining the impact of the CMA within an ES is a promising way to gain better insight into the performance of ES. For this purpose, a vector of input parameters was optimized for a drilling EDM process with a comma and a nested comma ES with CMA. It was found that the comma ES led to a reduction in erosion duration tero of 38 % compared to the initially chosen parameters and the nested comma ES led to a reduction in erosion duration tero of 27 % compared to the same initial parameters. The additional information stored in the covariance matrix enables the ES to find a local optimum of the parameter vector faster and more consistently. This fact is verified by use of visualizations of the covariance matrix on a two-dimensional subspace. From these findings it can be concluded, that for the application of the ES to the optimization of EDM processes the CMA should be performed continuously over all generations as opposed to resetting this matrix after a number of generations.
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    Heat Transfer Study for Oil-in-Water Emulsion Jets Impinging onto hot Metal Surface
    ( 2022)
    Nabbout, Kaissar
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    Pasternak, Lars
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    Sommerfeld, M.
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    Bock-Marbach, Benjamin
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    Kuhnert, Jörg
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    Barth, Enrico
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    Uhlmann, Eckart
    The purpose of this work is to analyse numerically as well as experimentally liquid jets impinging at different angles (30°, 60° and 90°) and different velocities (4.7 m/s, 7.0 m/s and 9.7 m/s) onto a hot circular plate made of Inconel 718. Liquids used in the experiments are water and oil-in-water emulsion with 8% concentration of the mineral oil Adrana AY 401 from Houghton Deutschland GmbH. An infrared camera is used to measure the black-coated rear face of the plate during the jet cooling process. The temperature field obtained is then used as input to estimate the heat transfer coefficient. The heat transfer coefficient is estimated by solving an Inverse Heat Transfer Problem (IHTP). In addition, the transient growth of the wetting area is also shown for both liquids. The heat transfer coefficient obtained from the experiments are utilised as input in numerical simulations with the Finite-Pointset-Method (FPM). Comparison between experiments and simulations is done to validate the recently implemented evaporation modelling in the MESHFREE software.
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    Investigation of additive manufactured tungsten carbide-cobalt tool electrodes for sinking EDM
    ( 2022)
    Uhlmann, Eckart
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    Polte, Mitchel
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    Hörl, Robert
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    Braun, Thomas
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    Bolz, Robert
    Increasing product complexity and continuous developments in related tool and mould making industry require ongoing advances in manufacturing processes like electrical discharge machining (EDM). To meet the increasing requirements, the development of adapted EDM processes and tool designs is necessary. Additive manufacturing (AM) enables the manufacturing of complex tool electrode geometries with interior flushing channels for EDM processes with very few restrictions regarding the design. This accounts even for tungsten carbide-cobalt (WC-Co), which is a suitable material for EDM tool electrodes with various advantages, e.g. thermal and mechanical stability. This paper shows first results of additive manufactured WC-Co tool electrodes for the use in sinking EDM and the related development process.
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    Prediction of the Roughness Reduction in Centrifugal Disc Finishing of Additive Manufactured Parts Based on Discrete Element Method
    ( 2022)
    Kopp, Marco
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    Uhlmann, Eckart
    One major drawback of additive manufacturing is the poor surface quality of parts, which negatively affects mechanical and tribological properties. Therefore, a surface finishing is necessary in most cases. Due to a high material removal rate, centrifugal disc finishing is a promising mass finishing operation for an effective surface finishing of additive manufactured parts. However, due to machining the workpieces in a freely movable manner, the process is hardly controllable, and the process design is often based on time-consuming and cost-intensive trial-and-error approaches. Especially when it comes to the machining of complex-shaped workpieces, finishing results are barely predictable. Therefore, the aim of this study is to set up a numerical simulation of the centrifugal disc finishing based on the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to predict finishing results. A procedure to determine the required DEM input parameters is presented and the simulation was validated using a freely movable force sensor. The results of the finishing experiments with additive manufactured workpieces made of Ti-6Al-4V were correlated with the simulated results. The derived correlation was used to predict local differences in the roughness reduction, which occurred when finishing workpieces with a limited accessibility to the surface. As a result, it is concluded that the complex relationship between the type of media, the accessibility to the surface, and the achievable finishing results can be modeled using the DEM.
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    Simulativer Vergleich tubularer Peltierelemente
    ( 2022)
    Binninger, Roland
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    Pernau, Hans-Fridtjof
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    Schäfer-Welsen, Olaf
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    Triebel, Florian
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    Polte, Mitchel
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    Uhlmann, Eckart
    Der Einsatz von Peltierelementen bietet in der Temperierung von Prozessen und Bauteilen einen großen Vorteil gegenüber der in technischen Anwendungen üblicherweise eingesetzten Fluidkühlung. Sie pumpen Wärme rein elektrisch und stellen Temperaturen sehr schnell sowie präzise ein. Für eine neuartige, thermoelektrisch temperierte Motorspindel wurden in Kooperation zwischen dem Fraunhofer-Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik IPM und dem Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Fabrikbetrieb IWF der Technischen Universität Berlin zwei unterschiedliche Ansätze tubularer Peltierelemente simulativ verglichen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass es mit beiden Konzepten möglich ist, induzierte Wärmeströme am Lagersitz abzu­führen, um diesen auf eine vorgegebene Temperatur zu regeln.
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    Process behaviour of segmented and actuated tool electrodes for variable shaping in sinking EDM
    ( 2022)
    Uhlmann, Eckart
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    Thißen, Kai
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    Schulte Westhoff, Bela
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    Streckenbach, Jan
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    Ludwig, Jonas
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    Maas, Jürgen
    In sinking electrical discharge machining (S-EDM), many applications such as the manufacturing of injection moulds require numerous tool electrodes due to tool wear compensation. The manufacturing of tool electrodes causes a high cost and time expenditure in the entire process chain. This paper aims for a novel approach to a segmentation of the tool electrode in order to shape it variably. The shaping is realized by actuation of single tool electrode segments (STES) using miniaturized linear actuators. In the future, the roughing process in S-EDM could be carried out by segmenting and variably shaping of the tool electrode. To investigate the process behaviour of a segmented tool electrode in S-EDM, different geometry configurations of the tool electrodes are compared. Experimental results show a similar material removal rate for the different tool electrode configurations. The relative linear wear of a segmented tool electrode is only 7.7 % of the relative linear wear of a monolithic tool electrode. In order to dynamically position the STES, a miniaturized electrical linear drive is developed and constructed. The outer diameter of the actuator must not exceed the edge length of an STES. In the machine tool an actuated STES is tested and the material removal rate and the relative linear wear for different Z-axis lifting motions are analysed. The material removal rate could be increased by 37 % applying actuated Z-axis lifting motions compared to the process without Z-axis lifting motion. In this context the relative linear wear increased slightly. The results of this paper are used for the further development of the system to enable more efficient process chains in the EDM process.
  • Publication
    Zirconium dioxide-reinforced aluminium oxide ceramic for micro-milling of graphite
    ( 2022)
    Uhlmann, Eckart
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    Polte, Mitchel
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    Polte, Julian
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    Hocke, T.
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    Wendt, M.
    Tool and mould making is one of the most important sectors for production of complex parts with highest economic efficiency. Particularly the milling process is a key technology for the manufacturing of tool electrodes for electrical discharge machining (EDM). Beside copper, graphite is the most industrial relevant tool electrode material for sinking-EDM. According to the state of the art the machining of graphite results in high tool wear in consequence of strong chemical and abrasive effects. Currently, uncoated and cost intensive diamond coated cemented carbide tools are used for industrial applications. High tool costs and short tool life have a negative impact on the economic efficiency of the manufacturing process and increase the overall production costs. To reduce the production costs, the needs for innovative cutting materials and dedicated manufacturing processes are high. The zirconium dioxide-reinforced aluminium oxide ceramic used in this investigation shows a great potential because of the high hardness H, the missing binder phase and the covalent bond. The aim of this investigation is the examination of the application behaviour of ceramic cutting tools during the machining process of graphite. Therefore, dedicated milling tests in partial and full cut were carried out. For evaluation of the application behaviour of the ceramic tools, the surface quality of the machined graphite depending on the wear of the tools was considered. The results show that a minimum surface roughness of Ra = 0.80 µm and average surface roughness of Rz = 6.55 µm could be achieved in first milling tests. Due to a strong sharpening effect of the cutting edge during the machining, the possibility was provided to produce complex components with highest precision and without chipping behaviour. The machining of graphite using ceramic milling tools shows extensive advantages compared to conventional milling tools, which may positively affect the economic efficiency of machining graphite in the future.