Abrasive Waterjet Machining of Engineering Materials by Jun Wang ISBN:0-87849-918-0 (Vol 19 of Materials Science Foundations, ISSN=1422-3597 ) Illus. 104 pages. Available from the Abrasives Mall for $66.00 plus shipping Price subject to change without notice ORDER FORM Here is a practical book and good overview of a highly adaptable machining technology, its limitations and capabilities edited by Jun Wang, an accomplished researcher with considerable reputation in abrasives technology and abrasive waterjet in particular. This book brings together scientific and practical approaches to understanding abrasive waterjet applications for both advanced and conventional materials. In this book you will find mathematics for engineers and tool designers as well as a discussion of what works and what doesn’t work that a manager or shop foreman could easily understand. Typical is a discussion of striations, a characteristic familiar to anyone who has handled a piece of material with a contour cut by waterjet. Wang discusses opinions about causes of striations and studies that support one viewpoint or another as well as what it means in practical applications. For a small company working with a waterjet system, this is an easy-to-read source that will help to understand the characteristics of an abrasive waterjet, one of the fasting growing machining technologies in manufacturing. As a technical publication Mr. Wang’s book is a reasonably priced publication with ample references for those who want to explore waterjet machining in depth.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by Jun Wang p3 Abrasive Waterjet Systems Characteristics Applications Fundamentals of AWJ Machining by Jun Wang p8 Material Removal Mechanisms Kerf Characteristics Mathematical Models Characteristics of Abrasive Waterjet by Jun Wang p27 CDF Model Formation Results and Discussion AWJ Cutting of Typical Engineering Materials by Jun Wang p35 AWJ Cutting of Metallic Coated Sheet Steesl AWU Cutting of Industrial Ceramics AWH Cutting of Polymer Matrix Composites AWJ Contouring by Jun Wang p67 Experiments Analysis of Kerf Characteristics The Formation Mechanisms of Surface Striations by Jun Wang p74 Striation Formation Due to Inherent Characteristics Striation Formation Due to Jet Dynamics and Energy Dissipation Striation Formation Due to System Vibration Concluding Remarks Techniques for Enhancing the Cutting Performance by Jun Wang p82 Forward Angling the Jet Controlled Nozzle Oscillation Multipass Cutting Operation Concluding Remarkts References p98

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