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Experimental investigation into the effect of abrasive process parameters on the cutting performance for abrasive waterjet technology: a case study

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In abrasive waterjet (AWJ) process, abrasive properties are of critical factors that influence machining performances. Abrasive process parameters including abrasive material, size and flow rate, exert a significant impact on cutting ability and quality of AWJ. In this paper, monolithic abrasive material (garnet, alumina and silicon carbide) and corresponding mixing abrasive materials are adopted to evaluate the effect of abrasive process parameters on the cutting ability and quality, respectively. Two kinds of cutting experiments are conducted with a monolithic abrasive to explore the influence of variation in abrasive material, size and flow rate on the machining performance. The cutting depth experiments for evaluating the cutting ability in terms of cutting depth are conducted with a right trapezoid aluminium alloy block. The kerf cutting experiments are taken to evaluate the cutting quality by the kerf taper angle, kerf width and surface roughness. On this basis, AWJ experiments with mixing abrasive materials are taken to probe into the composition of mixing abrasives’ effect on cutting performance. It is found that the abrasives consisting of 75% alumina and 25% garnet in mass fraction lead to a maximum cutting depth of 41.7 mm and the smallest surface roughness of Ra 2.1 μm under the flow rate of 130 g/min.

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The authors would like to acknowledge fundings from National Key Research and Development Project (2018YFB2000402), Joint Fund of MOE and GAD (6141A02022133), NSFC-Liaoning Joint Fund (U1708256, U1908232), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (DUT18GF104).

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China

    Yang Yu, Taixu Sun, Yemin Yuan, Hang Gao & Xuanping Wang

  2. Key Laboratory for Precision and Non-traditional Machining Technology of Ministry of Education, Dalian, China

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Yu, Y., Sun, T., Yuan, Y. et al. Experimental investigation into the effect of abrasive process parameters on the cutting performance for abrasive waterjet technology: a case study. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 107, 2757–2765 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-05183-3

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