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Exploring cutting front profile in abrasive water jet machining of aluminum alloys

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As the only cold high-energy beam machining technology, abrasive water jet (AWJ) has a very broad application prospect in material manufacturing industry. However, the application of AWJ is limited by the machining accuracy it can be achieved. To get higher accuracy in the AWJ cutting process, a better understanding of the cutting front is necessary since the machining accuracy is decided by the cutting front of AWJ. In this paper, the influence of machining parameters on the cutting front profile has been investigated. Based on the investigation, the cutting front profile model has been built and verified. With this mathematical model, predicting the cutting front profile accurately according to the cutting conditions becomes feasible and practical, which further leads to higher precision cutting of AWJ.

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This research was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province (2018JJ3253 and 2020JJ5273), the Hunan Provincial Department of Education Project (18B462, 18A419 and 19B298), and the Hunan Province Key Area R&D Program (2019SK2192).

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    Shu Wang, Dong Hu, Fengling Yang, Chuanlin Tang & Peng Lin

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Wang, S., Hu, D., Yang, F. et al. Exploring cutting front profile in abrasive water jet machining of aluminum alloys. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 112, 845–851 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-06379-3

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