TY - JOUR
T1 - Composite cutting with abrasive water jet
AU - Alberdi, A.
AU - Suárez, A.
AU - Artaza, T.
AU - Escobar-Palafox, G.A.
AU - Ridgway, K.
PY - 2013/9/10
Y1 - 2013/9/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - AWJ
KW - composite
KW - cutting
KW - trimming
KW - waterjet
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84891693506&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-engineering
U2 - 10.1016/j.proeng.2013.08.217
DO - 10.1016/j.proeng.2013.08.217
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84891693506
VL - 63
SP - 421
EP - 429
JO - Procedia Engineering
JF - Procedia Engineering
SN - 1877-7058
ER -