Variation of depth of cut on al7075-t6 and fly ash metal matrix composite in abrasive waterjet cutting
International Journal of Development Research
Variation of depth of cut on al7075-t6 and fly ash metal matrix composite in abrasive waterjet cutting
Received 19th May, 2017; Received in revised form 05th June, 2017; Accepted 20th July, 2017; Published online 30th August, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Anand Raju and Dr. Deva Kumar. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Aluminium metal matrix composite is advances in manufacturing of new composite production. Present work carries an investigation of variation of depth of cut on Al7075-T6 and Fly ash metal matrix composites (AMMCs) in Abrasive water jet cutting (AWJC). The aluminum metal matrix was casted in stir casting process with variation of fly ash percentage (15%, 20% and 25%). The four samples namely pure aluminum sample and the three AMMCs are cut with AWJC by variation of different parameters to attain the optimization of the cutting condition in each sample. The cutting parameters are set based on Response Surface Methodology (RSM) using Historical data method. The results were analyzed using response graphs. From the analysis, it depicts that, high waterjet pressure; low standoff distance (SOD), low traverse speed (TS) and low abrasive flow rate (AFR) are resulted in higher depth of cut (DOC) in the unreinforced Al 7075-T6 as well as MMCs.
