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Effect of Machining Limiting Factors on Drilling Progress during Spark Assisted Chemical Engraving (SACE): General Trends
by Jana D. Abou Ziki and Rolf Wüthrich
Ceramics 2021, 4(4), 618-627; https://doi.org/10.3390/ceramics4040044 - 5 Nov 2021
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Spark Assisted Chemical Engraving (SACE) is a micro-machining technology for non-conductive materials, mainly glass, based on thermal assisted etching. Generally, during SACE, drilling proceeds at a fast rate reaching 100 µm/s for the first 100 µm and then it slows down for depths [...] Read more.
Spark Assisted Chemical Engraving (SACE) is a micro-machining technology for non-conductive materials, mainly glass, based on thermal assisted etching. Generally, during SACE, drilling proceeds at a fast rate reaching 100 µm/s for the first 100 µm and then it slows down for depths higher than 300 µm. While several techniques have been proposed to establish faster drilling, they mainly rely on tuning the machining parameters to enhance the machining performance. However, with this approach machining parameters need to be constantly tuned to achieve certain machining performance depending on the size of the tool and the features needed. Therefore, this necessitates further work to enhance understanding regarding the SACE machining process fundamentals in order to enhance machining speed and quality. Since SACE is a thermal assisted etching process, both local heating and flushing of electrolyte in the machining zone are required. However, to the authors’ knowledge there is not any study that attempts to analyze the effect of each of these machining limiting factors on the machining performance. This work attempts to clarify the effect of each flushing and heating on the drilling progress for hole depths higher than 100 microns. It therefore provides a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of the SACE machining process. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Ceramics)
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Characteristics of the Arcing Plasma Formation Effect in Spark-Assisted Chemical Engraving of Glass, Based on Machine Vision
by Chao-Ching Ho and Dung-Sheng Wu
Materials 2018, 11(4), 470; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11040470 - 22 Mar 2018
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Spark-assisted chemical engraving (SACE) is a non-traditional machining technology that is used to machine electrically non-conducting materials including glass, ceramics, and quartz. The processing accuracy, machining efficiency, and reproducibility are the key factors in the SACE process. In the present study, a machine [...] Read more.
Spark-assisted chemical engraving (SACE) is a non-traditional machining technology that is used to machine electrically non-conducting materials including glass, ceramics, and quartz. The processing accuracy, machining efficiency, and reproducibility are the key factors in the SACE process. In the present study, a machine vision method is applied to monitor and estimate the status of a SACE-drilled hole in quartz glass. During the machining of quartz glass, the spring-fed tool electrode was pre-pressured on the quartz glass surface to feed the electrode that was in contact with the machining surface of the quartz glass. In situ image acquisition and analysis of the SACE drilling processes were used to analyze the captured image of the state of the spark discharge at the tip and sidewall of the electrode. The results indicated an association between the accumulative size of the SACE-induced spark area and deepness of the hole. The results indicated that the evaluated depths of the SACE-machined holes were a proportional function of the accumulative spark size with a high degree of correlation. The study proposes an innovative computer vision-based method to estimate the deepness and status of SACE-drilled holes in real time. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machining—Recent Advances, Applications and Challenges)
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