With the increasing demands to generate complex parts on ever-more advanced, but difficult- to-cut materials, a group of technologies, generically called High Energy Fluid Jet Machining …
Machining with abrasives is a widely used process for producing intricate shapes on components and artifacts and for providing precise tolerances that are required especially …
DK Shanmugam, SH Masood - Journal of materials processing technology, 2009 - Elsevier
Layered composites are “difficult-to-machine” materials as it is inhomogeneous due to the matrix properties, fibre orientation, and relative volume fraction of matrix. Abrasive waterjet …
The use of multi-axis waterjet machines as a manufacturing tool is rapidly increasing. A wide range of materials can be machined ranging from carbon fibre composites on the latest …
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models for ultrahigh velocity waterjets and abrasive waterjets (AWJs) are established using the Fluent6 flow solver. Jet dynamic characteristics …
DK Shanmugam, J Wang, H Liu - International Journal of Machine Tools …, 2008 - Elsevier
Kerf taper is a special and undesirable geometrical feature inherent to abrasive waterjet (AWJ) machining. In this study, an experimental investigation is carried out to minimise or …
J Wang - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2007 - Elsevier
A study of the depth of jet penetration (or depth of cut) in abrasive waterjet (AWJ) cutting of alumina ceramics with controlled nozzle oscillation is presented and discussed. An …
TM Oh, GC Cho - Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2016 - Springer
Abrasive waterjets are widely used in the fields of civil and mechanical engineering for cutting a great variety of hard materials including rocks, metals, and other materials. Cutting …