AWJ Cutting Process Quality Modeling and Optimization Based on Footprint Angle
Andrzej Perec, Elzbieta Kawecka, Wojciech Zajac, Andrea Di Schino, Shinichi Tashiro · 2025
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Description
Andrzej Perec, Elzbieta Kawecka, and Wojciech Zajac study how to keep abrasive water jet cutting both fast and clean. In this method, a high-pressure jet of water and grit slices through hard materials, and the marks it leaves form an angle that reflects both speed and surface quality. The team tested how control settings such as grit flow, pressure, and travel speed move that angle.
Their goal is live quality control: watch the jet's bend angle as cutting runs, then tune the settings on the fly to hold quality steady. Tests used a tough, impact-resistant steel as the sample material. A shared measure of quality would also let shops set parameters for new materials that the cutting machine's built-in model has never seen.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andrzej Perec, Elzbieta Kawecka, Wojciech Zajac, Andrea Di Schino, Shinichi Tashiro |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |