Authors: A K Dubey
Publish Date: 2008/05/07
Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 1-16
Abstract
Electrochemical honing ECH is a hybrid electrolytic precision microfinishing technology that integrates physicochemical actions of the electrochemical machining and conventional honing processes to provide controlled functional surfacegeneration and fast material removal capabilities in a single operation Three different strategies namely the utilitybased Taguchi approach Taguchi–RBFNN–DF–GA strategy and GAtuned fuzzy Taguchi inference application have been recently reported by the author for multiperformance modeling and optimization control ECH process In this work a critical evaluation of their prospective features strengths and weaknesses has been done for benefit of the user and research fraternity The methodologies have been demonstrated using a case study of multiperformance modeling and optimization control ECH involving three performance criteria Results indicate that all three techniques are well suited to the complex manufacturing processes that involve several correlated variables with vaguely defined parametric relationships like in ECH It was also found that the predicted optimal results are sensitive to the way the factorial interactions are treated The actual experimental results at the optimal parametric conditions predicted using the three approaches are quite close
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