STEP MODEL OF EROSION OF ELECTRODES. II. APPLICATION TO THE CASE 
OF SPECIAL REGIMES OF ELECTROEROSION TREATMENT

L. I. Sharakhovskii,a A. Marotta,b and A. M. Esipchuka

UDC 621.387.143.014.31

The possibility of applying the step model of erosion 
of cold electrodes [Inzh.-Fiz. Zh., 76, No. 2, 116-122 
(2003)] for special (optimized) regimes of electroerosion treatment 
of metals has been shown. A satisfactory agreement between the theoretical 
calculations and the experimental data of other authors [J. Appl. 
Phys., 66, No. 9, 4095-4103 (1989)] in electroerosion 
treatment of steel has been obtained.

aA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus; email: leonids@land.ru; 
bGleb Wataghin Institute of Physics at Campinas State 
University, Campinas, Brazil (Instituto de Fisica "Gleb Wataghin," 
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Sã Paulo, Brasil); 
email: aruy@ifi.unicamp.br.
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 
123-126, March-April, 2003. Original article submitted October 
14, 2002.