A Review Of Analysis Of Surface Roughness In Abrasive Water Jet Cutting

  Sai Shridhar Joshi,  Chaitanya Shaligram

Although Abrasive jet and Water Jet technology has been around for years, abrasive jet equipment has just recently entered the machine tool market. There are a handful of early innovators replacing and complementing conventional machining with water jet cutting methods. Abrasive water jet machining is a non-conventional machining process in which removal of material takes place by impact erosion of high pressure, high velocity of water and entrained high velocity of grit abrasives on a work piece of aluminium. It is superior to many other cutting techniques in processing various materials, particularly in processing difficult-to-cut materials. This technology is being increasingly used in various industries. The objective of experimental investigation is to conduct research of machining parameters impact on surface roughness GMT garnet was used as abrasive material with 80 mesh. Surface roughness was measured across of depth of cut. The experimental results show that traverse speed has great effect on the surface roughness at the bottom of the cut. It was also discussed the correlation between the surface roughness and other abrasive water jet cutting variables. Based on the experiments, the optimal process parameters for each material thickness were defined.

Keywords- abrasive water jet cutting; aluminum; surface roughness; traverse speed; abrasive mass flow rate

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1703013
Page Number(s) - 97-102
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 3 | July 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Sai Shridhar Joshi,  Chaitanya Shaligram,   "A Review Of Analysis Of Surface Roughness In Abrasive Water Jet Cutting", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 3, pp.97-102, July 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1703013.pdf