REVIEW ARTICLE
An Investigation of Surface Quality Cut by Abrasive Water Jet
Shijin Zhang, Yuqiang Wu, Yanli Wang
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2011Volume: 5
First Page: 166
Last Page: 177
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-5-166
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01105010166
Article History:
Received Date: 8/5/2010Revision Received Date: 18/6/2010
Acceptance Date: 29/6/2010
Electronic publication date: 19/12/2011
Collection year: 2010
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
As abrasive water jet (AWJ) starts to be used in industry, especially in aerospace and automotive industries extensively, getting high quality surface has become a major requirement. Being a promising non-traditional cutting process, AWJ is holding several deficiencies, which limits its extensive applications dramatically. One of the deficiencies is striation marks presented on AWJ cutting surface. This paper investigated the triation formation mechanism systematically. This investigation leads to a conclusion that, striation can not be eliminated completely, however, by selecting proper paramters, smooth cutting surface can be achieved. Based on that conclusion, all parameters which might affect surface roughness have been explored, and an empirical model has been built and tested. With this empirical model, predicting surface quality becomes feasible and practical.
