Abrasive waterjet cutting (AWJ) is a highly efficient method for cutting almost any type of material. When holes shall be cut the waterjet first needs to pierce the material.This paper presents a vast experimental analysis of piercing parameters effect on piercing time. Results from experimentation on feed rates, work piece thicknesses, abrasive flow rates, standoff distances and water pressure...

0 Throughout the world a lot of ammunition is stored which concentrate expensive material that is unused and unutilised. Ammunition significantly represents potential risk to human and their environment. According to analysis made by [1, 2] it has been found, that discarded munitions are destroyed by using conventional techniques such as dumping at sea, outdoors burning and detonation, mining d...

As a new manufacturing process, abrasive water jet (AWJ)cutting has been very effective for difficult-to-machine materials. From the point of view of jet generation, abrasive water jets can be categorized as injection jeti or suspension jets. Injection jets are the most commonly used type for practical applications. An injection AWJ is formed by accelerating small abrasive particles through con...

abstract: nowadays, the non-traditional processes such as “laser, edm and awj” used for cutting high thickness sheet metal. hardox is hard and tough steel alloy and it has many industrialize applications. one best process to cut the hardox is abrasive water jet (awj) cutting.  it can cuts complex shape with high quality and accurate tolerance.  awj cutting offers certain unique benefits such as...

We present an alternative method for cutting optical glass. It works with a high-pressure fluid, carring abrasive powder. This technique offers some advantages over conventional methods that use diamond abrasive covered wires or disks. We make a critical comparison between those two techniques, characterizing cuts with interferometric, polarimetric, and Ronchi testing. The main feature of the w...

Original scientific paper The paper presents the fractal analysis application for a simple evaluation of the quality of waterjet treated surfaces, especially after abrasive waterjet cutting. This analysis will enable the elimination of subjective assessments of treated surfaces. This will ensure a clear estimate of the quality of the surface and the ability to objectively compare the quality of...

In the metal cutting process, the friction and wear behavior between the cutting tool and machined surface is the most important factor that affects the surface quality and the service life of the cutter. The irregular pore structure of porous titanium alloy has changed its mechanical properties and the processing technology. The friction and wear mechanism of the cutting tool and the machined ...

Diamond turning of steel alloys is impractical due to catastrophic tool wear caused by a combination of chemical and abrasive wear. In the literature, several modifications of the cutting process have been proposed, e.g. cutting in an inert gas atmosphere, cryogenic cutting and vibration assisted cutting, e.g. elliptical vibration cutting (EVC) [1-5]. In this work, the EVC method was investigat...

Numerical modeling of machining processes is of significance in the parametric analysis and optimization of their performance. In this paper, a finite element-based model of abrasive waterjet (AWJ) cutting of a ductile material is presented with the help of an explicit, nonlinear finite element method. In this model, both solid-solid interaction and fluid-structure interaction are considered. T...