ISBN 9783843920773

978-3-8439-2077-3, Reihe Ingenieurwissenschaften

Jinming Lu
Cathode shape design for steady-state electrochemical machining

131 Seiten, Dissertation Technische Universität München (2014), Softcover, A5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

In electrochemical machining, which can be employed to shape workpieces made of metallic materials with low machinability, the shape of the tool cathode has to be determined a priori. In the present work, conditions for the existence of exact solutions to the inverse problem of tool shape design are investigated analytically. A solution concept based on shape optimization is developed and implemented using the open-source C++ toolbox OpenFOAM. Analytical and numerical cross-checks verify the accuracy of the numerically computed tool shapes.