'Dry' [ 1 Analysis of variance (ANOVA) 1 Electric discharge machining 1 Electric discharges 1 Environmental impact 1 Learning algorithms 1 Material removal rate 1 Morphology 1 Near‐dry wire electric discharge machining 1 Nitinol 1 Nitinol shape memory alloy 1 Optimisations 1 Optimization algorithms 1 Parameter estimation 1 Surface defects 1 Surface morphology 1 Surface roughness 1 Teaching-learning-based optimizations 1 Teaching–learning based optimization algorithm Wire 1 Wire electric discharge machining 1 near‐dry wire electric discharge machining (WEDM) 1 nitinol 1 optimization 1 shape memory alloys 1 teaching–learning based optimization (TLBO) algorithm 1