Research Article
Investigation of Machinability Characteristics of EDMed
Inconel 825 Alloy under Multidimensional Parametric
Modeling by Using Holistic Grey-PCA Statistical Models
Nitin Kumar Sahu ,
1
Mukesh Kumar Singh ,
1
Bupe Getrude Mutono-Mwanza ,
2
and Atul Kumar Sahu
1
1
Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Guru Ghasidas (Central) Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur 495009,
Chhattisgarh, India
2
Graduate School of Business, University of Zambia, Great East Road Campus, Lusaka, Zambia
Correspondence should be addressed to Bupe Getrude Mutono-Mwanza; bupe.mwanza@gmail.com
Received 15 February 2022; Accepted 19 April 2022; Published 14 May 2022
Academic Editor: anigaivelan R
Copyright © 2022 Nitin Kumar Sahu et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
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properly cited.
e current social and industrial communities exceedingly demanded the materials that dealt with rich mechanical properties, i.e.,
the rich strength, hardness, reliability, high resistance against corrosion and oxidation, and high toughness and refractoriness.
Recently, the researchers ascertained the comprehensive applications of these difficult to machine materials in the domain of
automotive, aeronautical, nuclear industries etc. It is claimed that it is quite hard and expensive for machining these super-
advanced materials by traditional machining operations. In the present study, worldwide promising nickel-based superalloy
Inconel 825 material is used due to its outstanding mechanical and thermal properties at eminent temperatures and also having
broad application in imperative engineering fields. e authors probed that machining cost and smart machinability index have
become the gigantic concern in EDM operation; however, these can be minimized by adapting a conduit of evaluation of the
optimum setting among multiple input parameters. It was a challenging task, which is respected by authors as the research gaps to
be sorted out. To fulfill research gaps, the authors encountered imperative significant EDM input parameters, i.e., spark gap (Sg),
gap voltage (Vg), pulse on time (Ton), pulse off time (Toff), Peak Current (Ip), Servo feed (Sf), Depth of Cut (Dc) and difficulty
index (Di) corresponding to output responses, i.e., power consumption (Pc), machining time (Mt), and material removal rate
(MRR) for framing the machinability index/model for conducting experiments and collecting objectives/responses/outputs. Next,
the authors conducted experiments using the Taguchi L27 orthogonal array model in the nonvibratory domain for recording
output responses. Later, to potentially access the results, the authors integrated the computational Taguchi methodology with dual
models which is called as Taguchi-grey relational analysis (T-GRA) and Taguchi-principal component analysis (T-PCA). e
optimum setting condition among considered inputs is discussed in the conclusion section. Later, confirmatory test gratified the
evaluated optimum settings which is yielding an improvement of 0.16262 and 0.34398 score in executing T-GRA and T-PCA,
respectively. In continuation, the current research evidenced that pulse off time is the chief significant process parameter having p
values 0.005 and 0.001 for T-GRA and T-PCA, respectively. It is also seen that the depth of cut is also another important significant
process parameter having p values 0.061 and 0.073 for T-GRA and T-PCA, respectively. Moreover, the current research work also
investigated the effect of variation of momentous input process parameters over the surface topography and their utility in
improving surface integrity and eliminating the micropores and cracks.
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Advances in Materials Science and Engineering
Volume 2022, Article ID 3147586, 29 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3147586