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Abstract

In today’s high-tech demand-oriented society everything is getting faster and smaller. Proper selection of materials and their miniaturization has become very challenging. Composites, ceramics, glass and smart materials are becoming more and more popular because of their superiority over conventional materials but their miniaturization for particular applications is difficult. For a given study, Wire Electrical chemical discharge machining (WECDM) setup was developed to machine Quartz glass material. The experiments were performed for Material removal rate (MRR) and Width of Cut (WOC) for different governing input parameters using Taguchi design of experimentations. Optical microscope (OM) shows the fine cut 0.120mm width for 10mm depth. The results show the need for the secondary process to improve topography of machined surface and dependency of input parameters on the machining accuracy, aspect ratio, and surface finish.