PROJECT PRELIMINARIES

DECEMBER 2014
NAME
: YOGESH GONDALIYA
ROLL NO
: U11ME168
TITLE
: INTRODUCTION TO ABRASSIVE WATER JET MACHINING PROCESS
ABSTRACT

Abrasive water jet machining (AWJM) is a relatively new machining technique. Abrasive Water
Jet Machining is extensively used in many industrial applications like for aerospace, aircraft,
boat and automotive sectors due to its advantages to machine composite materials, no thermal
distortion, high machining versatility, high flexibility and small cutting forces. AWJM is a nonconventional machining process where material is removed by impact erosion of high pressure
high velocity of water and entrained high velocity of grit abrasives on a work piece. There are so
many process parameter affect quality of machined surface cut by AWJM. Important process
parameters which mainly affect the quality of cutting are traverse speed, hydraulic pressure,
stand of distance, abrasive flow rate and types of abrasive. Important quality parameters in
AWJM are Material Removal Rate (MRR), Surface Roughness (SR), kerf width, tapering of
kerf.
KEYWORDS :
Abrasive water jet cutting, composite processing, machinability, quality parameters

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: DR. A.A. SHAIKH

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