This report introduces the reader to the process and to the
requirements which must be considered for its installation on the shop
floor. Although only electro-chemical shaping is dealt with, many of
the parameters investigated are fundamental to other configurations.
The machining characteristics of several high strength alloys and die
steels have been investigated; also of aluminium and mild steel.
Electrolyte heating effects and the physical attributes of the machined
surface have been considered. Electrode and workpiece shapes have been
simulated for static field examinations and these followed by investigations
under dynamic machining conditions
