Reliability improvement of a powder blasting process for micro-machining applications

Yves Lacrotte; Stefan Wilhelm; M. P Y Desmulliez

doi:10.1109/ESTC.2010.5642962

Reliability improvement of a powder blasting process for micro-machining applications

Yves Lacrotte, Stefan Wilhelm, M. P Y Desmulliez

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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Abstract

The improvement on an existing powder blasting machine is presented and characterised in this paper. The original prototype suffered from irregular powder clogging during real time utilisation, especially with very fine particles. Moreover, the fluctuations of the flow of particle generated were not ideal for micro-machining purposes. We demonstrate that the re-engineering of the original reservoir used with freshly dried powder brings reliability and more consistency in the powder flow rate. This improvement is easy to implement in the original design and does not need to re-engineer the entire machine. For this study, very fine powder with average particle diameter of 9 µm was used.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Electronics System Integration Technology Conference, ESTC 2010 - Proceedings
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ESTC.2010.5642962
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	3rd Electronics System Integration Technology Conference - Berlin, Germany Duration: 13 Sept 2010 → 16 Sept 2010

Conference

Conference	3rd Electronics System Integration Technology Conference
Abbreviated title	ESTC 2010
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	13/09/10 → 16/09/10

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