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Abrasive Water Jet Machining Of Composite Materials? A Review

P.D.Unde, M.D.Gayakwad, R.S.Ghadge

Composite materials are being increasingly used in various applications like space, aircraft, marine, architectural and automobile sector because of their superior physical and mechanical properties even though they are a little bit costly. Machining of composite materials is of great interest because of variety of reinforcement from high strength fibers to natural fibers. Due to this, the machine manufacturers do not provide good database for machining the composite materials. Abrasive water jet machining provides some advantages over conventional and non-conventional machining process for cutting the composite materials like no thermal effect, high machining versatility and small cutting forces. This paper reviews the various experimentations carried out by number of authors in this field.