A study of abrasive water jet machining process on glass/epoxy composite laminate

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 209, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6168-6173

  Azmir, M A ^a   Ahsan, A K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

AWJM; Glass epoxy composite; Kerf taper ratio; Machining parameters; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

ABRASIVE MASS FLOW RATE; ABRASIVE MATERIALS; ABRASIVE WATER JET; ABRASIVE WATER JET MACHINING; ABRASIVE WATER JET MACHINING PROCESS; ALUMINIUM OXIDE; CONTROL FACTORS; CUTTING ORIENTATION; GLASS/EPOXY COMPOSITE; HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; KERF TAPER; KERF TAPER RATIO; MACHINED SURFACE; MACHINING CHARACTERISTICS; MACHINING PARAMETERS; MACHINING PERFORMANCE; STANDOFF DISTANCE; TAGUCHI; TRAVERSE RATE;

ABRASIVES; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; GARNETS; HYDRAULIC FLUIDS; HYDRAULICS; JETS; MACHINING CENTERS; METAL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SILICATE MINERALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

MACHINING;

EID: 71749104386     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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