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Research on Kerf error of aluminum alloy 6061-T6 cut by abrasive water jet

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As the only cold processing technology at present, abrasive water jet (AWJ) has been successfully applied in many industrial fields. However, the tool of the AWJ is a soft knife, which will be deformed during the cutting process, resulting in kerf error, which seriously affects the machining accuracy. At present, the commonly used method to eliminate the kerf error is the taper compensation processing method. However, the contour curve of the kerf is not a straight line in most cases, so that there are still residual errors in the processing of the taper compensation method. In this paper, the residual error is defined as the deviation error, that is, the maximum error of the kerf contour deviating from the taper direction. Based on the experiment of AWJ cutting aluminum alloy 6061-T6, a detailed study is carried out on the influence of processing parameters such as cutting speed, water pressure, abrasive flow rate, and material thickness on the deviation error, and an empirical model of the deviation error is established through data fitting. This will help to better understand the kerf error of AWJ and has important guiding significance for optimizing processing parameters and improving processing accuracy.

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This research was supported by the Hunan Provincial Department of Education Project (18B462 and 19B298), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52006061), the Hunan Province Key Area R&D Program (2019SK2192 and 2020NK2063), and the Hunan Provincial Department of Water Resources Project (XSKJ2019081-56).

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Shu Wang: conceptualization, experiments, writing. Dong Hu: conceptualization, funding acquisition, project supervision. Fengling Yang: data analysis, writing. Peng Lin: experiments, data curation.

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Wang, S., Hu, D., Yang, F. et al. Research on Kerf error of aluminum alloy 6061-T6 cut by abrasive water jet. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 118, 2513–2521 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-08056-5

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