DISCHARGE SURFACE TREATMENT METHOD

摘要

There is an electrical discharge surface treatment method of forming a surface layer on a work piece surface by making pulsed electrical discharge repeatedly occur between a work piece (2) and an electrode (1) for electrical discharge surface treatment, for which a compact formed by powder obtained by mixing 20 wt% or more of silicon with powder of a hard material or a solid body of silicon is used, so that the electrode material is moved to the work piece (2), including: a processing time decision step of observing an electrical discharge treatment surface formed on the work piece surface by the electrical discharge and deciding the electrical discharge surface treatment end time in a process where surface roughness formed by the electrical discharge on the electrical discharge treatment surface acquired from the observation result is increased and is then decreased. Electrical discharge surface treatment between the electrode and the work piece is executed for only the processing time set in the processing time decision step.