Composite Cutting with Abrasive Water Jet

By Amaia Alberdi, A. Suárez, T. Artaza, G. Escobar-Palafox, K. Ridgway. 2013

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Abrasive Water Jet (AWJ) technology has demonstrated to be an interesting manufacturing process for space, aircraft, boat and automotive sectors due to its specific advantages when machining composite materials. However, AWJ cutting of composite laminates possesses several challenges. It is necessary to develop a methodology to adapt the process parameters for each type of FRP & CFRP material which will allow AWJ trimming operations to be easily carried out on composite materials, since machine manufacturers still do not provide good databases for composite cutting. The presented work aims at studying the behaviour of a machinability model in composite materials. The machinability index for various composite materials with different thicknesses was found experimentally, which showed very different results for different materials. A study of the effect of the abrasive waterjet process parameters on the quality of cut (taper and surface roughness) was carried out.

Subfields: Computational Mechanics, Ecological Modeling, Ocean Engineering

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In Ecological Modeling

1. A. Suárez
2. T. Artaza
3. Amaia Alberdi
4. F. Girot
5. A. Rivero

In Ocean Engineering

1. A. Suárez
2. T. Artaza
3. Amaia Alberdi
4. F. Girot
5. A. Rivero

Citations in the corpus

• An experimental study on abrasive waterjet cutting of CFRP/Ti6Al4V stacks for drilling operations (2016, background): “This occurs because the machinability index of the Ti6Al4V alloy is much lower than the machinability index of the CFRP material [16].”