Experimental Study of Material Removal Rate (MRR) in Electrochemical Drilling of Composite Material

Matrix Metal Composites (MMCs) are used extensively in industry, automobiles, and nuclear power plants due to their excellent properties in terms of hardness and reinforcement of abrasive particles as compared to other alloys. As conventional process methods cannot be used here to produce solids, unconventional manufacturing methods are applied. The present work makes use of a non-traditional operation process, namely the Electrochemical Drilling process. This paper studies the manufacture of the metal matrix composite (Al with 10%Sic), and the effect of Electrochemical Drilling Parameters on the material removal rate (MRR) of the metal matrix composite that was synthesized. The parameters are the supported gap (G) with a value of (0.3, 0.4, 0.5), voltage (V) with rate (20, 30, 40), and electrolyte concentration (EC) with focus (15, 25, 35). The metal was created using the shaking casting technique, and the experiment was created using the Taguchi method. It was discovered that with a constant electrolyte content of 25 g/l, a gap of 0.5 mm, and a voltage of 40V, the best parametric combination for MRR could be attained.