Titanium Alloy Milling Using Abrasive Water Jet for Repair Application: Modifications in Surface Quality and Material Integrity Following Plain Water Jet Cleaning

2021 ◽  
Vol 1016 ◽  
pp. 1374-1380
Author(s):  
Xavier Sourd ◽  
Mehdi Salem ◽  
Redouane Zitoune ◽  
Akshay Hejjaji ◽  
Damien Lamouche
Keyword(s):  
Titanium Alloy ◽  
Surface Quality ◽  
Surface Hardness ◽  
Water Jet ◽  
Depth Of Cut ◽  
Plain Water ◽  
Abrasive Water Jet ◽  
Abrasive Particles ◽  
Versatile Technique ◽  
Titanium Alloy Ti6al4v

Abrasive Water Jet (AWJ) machining has proven to be an effective and versatile technique for milling various kinds of materials, even with low machinability such as aerospace grade titanium alloy Ti6Al4V. Many studies have been performed in order to master this technology and produce geometrically accurate shapes. However, in the context of bonding repairs which require surfaces free from foreign bodies, AWJ machining presents a significant drawback in form of abrasive grit embedment. The goal of this present work is then to investigate the effect of a post-AWJ machining cleaning operation using Plain Water Jet process (PWJ – i.e. without abrasive particles) on the surface quality and material properties. For this, several characterization techniques were employed. It was concluded that the contamination has been reduced by 65% without noticeable changes in depth of cut and crater volume. The AWJ milling operation produced surface and subsurface hardening as well as biaxial compressive residual stress, mostly piloted by the jet pressure. PWJ cleaning reduced the depth of hardening without clear modification in surface hardness.

The effect of particle hardness and shape when abrasive water jet milling titanium alloy Ti6Al4V

Wear ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 266 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 613-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Fowler ◽  
I.R. Pashby ◽  
P.H. Shipway
Keyword(s):  
Titanium Alloy ◽  
Water Jet ◽  
Abrasive Water Jet ◽  
Jet Milling ◽  
Titanium Alloy Ti6al4v

scholarly journals A New Strategy for Improving the Surface Quality of Ti6Al4V Machined by Abrasive Water Jet: Reverse Cutting with Variable Standoff Distances

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Xiong ◽  
Liang Wan ◽  
Yi'nan Qian ◽  
Shuo Sun ◽  
Deng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Quality ◽  
Traverse Speed ◽  
Water Jet ◽  
Abrasive Water Jet ◽  
Machined Surface ◽  
Aerospace Vehicles ◽  
Kerf Taper ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Titanium Alloy Ti6al4v

Abstract Titanium alloys are widely used in important structures of aerospace vehicles, but the low thermal conductivity and high chemical activity make them difficult to process. As an untraditional machining technology, abrasive water jet (AWJ) has been proven to be an effective method for this kind of material. Aimed at further improving the cutting performance, reverse cutting with variable standoff distance (SOD) strategy was put forward, and experiments of titanium alloy Ti6Al4V machined by AWJ were conducted. The influence of SOD with different reverse cutting types on the kerf quality was studied to obtain the optimal SOD combinations. Ra, Sa and kerf taper were used to evaluate the quality of the machined surface. Moreover, the results of reverse cutting at the same speed and efficiency and single cutting at the constant SOD were compared and analyzed. It was found that the proposed strategy results in higher kerf quality in the aspect of surface roughness, compared to the single cutting. To be more specific, for the reverse trimming cutting, the improvements of Ra and Sa can reach up to 62.8% and 73.1% respectively under the condition of the SOD of the second cutting is 8mm. Furthermore, the kerf taper can be reduced 26.1% when the SOD of the second cutting is 2mm. With respect to the reverse deepening cutting, even the traverse speed of reverse cutting is set as twice as that of a single cutting, the kerf quality is still better. Additionally, when the SOD of the second cutting is 4mm, the improvements of Ra and Sa can reach up to 51.7% and 14.9%, respectively, and the kerf taper is reduced by 20.2%. This study provides a new method for improving the machined surface quality of hard materials, especially for Ti6Al4V.

Miniaturization of injection abrasive water jet machining process

2006 ◽  
Vol 220 (11) ◽  
pp. 1697-1705 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Orbanic ◽  
B Jurisevic ◽  
D Kramar ◽  
M Grah ◽  
M Junkar
Keyword(s):  
Water Jet ◽  
Heat Sinks ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Process Efficiency ◽  
Abrasive Water Jet ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Abrasive Particles ◽  
Cutting Head ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Awj Cutting

This contribution presents the possibilities of applying abrasive water jet (AWJ) technology for multi-material micromanufacture. The working principles of injection and suspension AWJ systems are presented. Characteristics of this technology, such as the ability to machine virtually any kind of material and the absence of a relevant heat-affected zone, are given, especially those from which the production of microcomponents can benefit. A few attempts to miniaturize the AWJ machining process are described in the state-of-the-art preview. In order to develop and improve the AWJ as a microtool, a numerical simulation based on the finite element analysis is introduced to evaluate the effect of the size abrasive particles and the process efficiency of microsized AWJ. An ongoing project in which an improved mini AWJ cutting head is being developed, is presented. Finally, the possible fields of application are given, including a case study on the machining of miniaturized heat sinks.

scholarly journals Process Parameter Optimization for Abrasive Water Jet Machining of Titanium Alloy Using Meta-Heuristic Algorithms

2018 ◽  
Vol 221 ◽  
pp. 01004
Author(s):  
Vishal S Sharma ◽  
Amit Kumar ◽  
Munish Kumar Gupta ◽  
Neeraj Bhanot
Keyword(s):  
Titanium Alloy ◽  
Process Parameters ◽  
Heuristic Algorithms ◽  
Removal Rate ◽  
Short Interval ◽  
Water Jet ◽  
Abrasive Water Jet ◽  
Influence Of Process Parameters ◽  
Abrasive Water Jet Machining ◽  
Industrial Sectors

Recently, the trend of optimization algorithms for improvements of surface quality and productivity characteristics in abrasive water jet machining of titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V alloy) has become increasingly more widespread in various industrial sectors i.e., aircraft and automobile Industries. Here, the present research attempts to select the ideal or best AWJM process parameters by implementing the well known meta-heuristic algorithm i.e., Teacher learning based optimization method (TLBO). The AWJM experiments as per the Taguchi L9 orthogonal array were performed on Ti 6Al-4V titanium alloy by considering jet transverse speed, stand-off distance and abrasive flow as the input parameters. Then, the influence of process parameters on surface roughness and material removal rate has been performed by means plot and ANOVA analysis. After that, the results are optimized with the TLBO method. The overall results indicate that the TLBO method is an efficient method used to find the optimal results with very short interval of time i.e., within 3 sec.

scholarly journals Research into the Disintegration of Abrasive Materials in the Abrasive Water Jet Machining Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Perec
Keyword(s):  
Method Of Moments ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Water Jet ◽  
Machining Process ◽  
Abrasive Water Jet ◽  
Abrasive Particles ◽  
Cutting Head ◽  
Grain Distribution ◽  
Awj Cutting ◽  
Ward Method

The size and distribution of abrasive particles have a significant influence on the effectiveness of the cutting process by the high-speed abrasive water jet (AWJ). The paper deal with the abrasive materials disintegration intensity in AWJ cutting during the creation of the abrasive jet. An evaluation of the abrasive materials grabbed after forming in the cutting head was carried out and its grain distribution was evaluated. Used here the arithmetic, geometric and logarithmic method of moments and Folk and Ward method. The influence of abrasive concentration of abrasive materials as alluvial garnet, recycled garnet, corundum, and olivine on grain distribution was studied. A recovery analysis was also carried out and the recycling coefficient for each tested abrasive material was determined.

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