The use of hard and brittle material has become increasingly more extensive in recent years. Therefore processing of these materials for the parts fabrication has become a challenging problem. However, it is time-consuming to machine the hard brittle materials with the traditional metal-cutting technique that uses abrasive wheels. In addition, the tool would suffer excessive wear as well. Howev...

Wood processing industries have continuously developed and improved technologies and processes to transform wood to obtain better final product quality and thus increase profits. Abrasive machining is one of the most important of these processes and therefore merits special attention and study. The objective of this work was to evaluate and demonstrate a process monitoring system for use in the...

The high cost of ceramic components can be associated with complex and time-consuming postmachining, which is currently done by using abrasive machining processes. The IWF and Fraunhofer-IPK are undertaking research activities in the field of abrasive machining which aim at developing and optimizing technologies to expand the application field and to increase productivity of high-performance ma...

Abrasive waterjet cutting is one of the nontraditional machining processes capable of cutting wide range of hard-to-cut materials. This process incurs relatively higher initial investment, maintenance and operating costs. Therefore optimum choice of the process parameters is essential for the economic, efficient and effective utilization of this process. This paper assesses the influence of pro...

In the present work, the optimization of the abrasive water jet machining (AWJM) process parameters with multiple performance characteristics based on the orthogonal array with the grey relational analysis (GRA) has been studied. Optimization of multiple response characteristics is far more complex compared to optimization of single performance characteristic. A grey relational grade (GRG) calc...

Abrasive Jet Machining is an Unconventional machining process in which the metal is removed from brittle and hard material in the form of micro-chips. With increase in need of materials like ceramics, composites, in manufacturing of various Mechanical & Electronic components, AJM has become a useful technique for micro machining. The present study highlights the influence of different parameter...

In this study, the effects of process parameters on the geometrical characteristics and the topography were investigated in milling of SS304 material using Abrasive Water Jet machining technique. In addition, optimal control of the input variables for achieving the quality of the channel was determined by using Grey relational analysis. The input process parameters include traverse speed, abras...

Abrasive machining is one of the most non-conventional processes for finishing. It is widely used in industry to machine the materials like mild steel, aluminum, copper, titanium, glass, hard rock material, graphite, composite material, ceramics etc.Like in abrasive jet machining. This technique uses jet which contains abrasive material. Now a day water-magnetic abrasive machining is one of the...

Abrasive flow machining (AFM) is a process for the production of excellent surface qualities of inner profiles that are difficult to access and outside edges, as well as for deburring and edge rounding. The grinding medium used in AFM consists of a polymer fluid, the so-called base, in which the abrasive grains are bound. The grinding medium is pressed along the contours at a defined pressure a...