NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI

DEPARTMENT OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERING

PR 309 UNCONVENTIONAL MACHINING PROCESSES
B.TECH, THIRD YEAR PRODUCTION
ASSIGNMENT: I

Date: 22.09.2015

1. What is UNSM process? Explain its working principle with neat sketch and state the
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advantages, applications.
What is the use of Water ice blasting (WIB) process? Explain the principle of WIB with

sketch.
3. What are elastic abrasives? How these are used for fine finishing operations?
4. What is the use of Electrochemical-aided abrasive flow machining (ECA 2FM) process?
Explain in detail with neat sketch.
5. Explain the working principle of Electrolyte Jet Machining (EJM) and Electrolyte Jet
Turning (EJT) processes with sketch and mention its applications and advantages.
6. How to fabricate hybrid micro/nano textures on at surfaces by using rotary ultrasonic
texturing (RUT) technique? Explain.
7. Explain the working principle of Electrophoretically assisted micro-ultrasonic machining
(EPAMUSM) process and state its advantages, applications
8. What is High Energy Fluid Jet Machining (HEFJet-Mach)? state its Advantages and
challenges.
9. What is the reason to develop the Laser assisted jet electrochemical machining
(LAJECM) process? Explain the working principle and state its advantages, applications.
10. What is MMC? Explain with neat sketch the machining mechanism of MMC by AWJM.
11. Explain applications of HEFJet-Mach process in detail.
12. Explain the working principle of rotational-magnetorheological abrasive ow nishing
(R-MRAFF) with sketch.
13. What are the recent developments and research challenges in electrochemical
micromachining (ECM) process?
14. Explain the working principle of Centrifugal force assisted abrasive flow machining with
sketch.
15. What is shape memory alloy (SMA)? State its properties and applications. What are
unconventional machining processes available for machining (SMA) and explain any
one?

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Title of the paper

1. An investigation of ultrasonic nanocrystal surface

process by numerical simulation
2. High Energy Fluid Jet Machining (HEFJet-Ma
technological advances to niche industrial application
3. Fine nishing of internal surfaces using elastic abras
4. Electrochemical-aided abrasive flow machining (EC
machining process (www.springerlink.com)
5. Electrochemical micromachining using at electrolyt
6. Fabrication of hybrid micro/nano-textured surface
machining with one-point diamond tool
7. Experimental study of electrophoretically assisted m
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8. High Energy Fluid Jet Machining (HEFJet-Ma
technological advances to niche industrial application
9. Precision and efciency of laser assisted jet electroch
10. Developments in the non-traditional machining of
matrix composites
11. High Energy Fluid Jet Machining (HEFJet-Ma
technological advances to niche industrial application
12. Nanonishing of freeform surfaces (knee joint

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magnetorheological abrasive ow nishing (R-MRA

13. Recent developments and research challeng
micromachining (ECM) (www.springerlink.com)
14. Determining dynamically active abrasive particle
centrifugal
force
assisted
abrasive
flow
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15. Review on non-conventional machining of shape me