An investigation on kerf characteristics in abrasive waterjet cutting of layered composites

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 209, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3887-3893

  Shanmugam, D K ^a   Masood, S H ^b  

^a Protected Mobility Systems   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abrasive waterjet; Composites; Energy conservation approach; Kerf taper angle; Predictive model

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVE WATERJET; ABRASIVE WATERJET CUTTINGS; COMPOSITES; CONVENTIONAL MACHINING; CUTTING PERFORMANCE; FIBRE ORIENTATIONS; GLASS EPOXIES; KERF TAPER ANGLE; LAYERED COMPOSITES; MATRIXES; OPERATING PARAMETERS; PRACTICAL GUIDELINES; PREDICTIVE MODEL; STANDOFF DISTANCES; TRAVERSE SPEED; WATER PRESSURES; WOVEN FABRICS;

ABRASIVES; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; EPOXY RESINS; GRAPHITE; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; WATER CRAFT;

ABRASIVE CUTTING;

EID: 64549142405     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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