Textured surfaces are found in everyday products, from steel body panels and bearings to book covers and quilted toilet paper. Although a number of processes can be used to achieve the desired surface ...

The past five years have seen an increasing interest in the novel applications of electrical discharge machining, particularly from the Far East and Europe, with industry starting to see the potential ...

Figure 1: Schematic illustrations of magneto-ball milling and electric-discharge-assisted mills. During arc (or spark) discharge milling (above about 0.1 MPa gas pressure), the conduction path is ...