Optimizing Abrasive Water Jet Parameters for Enhanced Interactivity in Metal-Stacked Hybrid Fiber Laminates

Year 2025, Volume: 9 Issue: 1, 28 - 36

Gnanasekaran K , Rajesh M , Hariram V

https://doi.org/10.31127/tuje.1503990

Abstract

High strength and shock-absorbing hybrid Fibre Laminate (HFL) machining is required to get the required geometric shape and size and to test the functioning under various impact protection circumstances. The compression molding process was adopted to fabricate the HFL. Skin titanium metal and alternately interlaced durable jute and high strength Kevlar fiber. A Central Composite Design (CCD)-Response Surface Technique (RST) was used to conduct the experiments with varying abrasive water jet parameters like WP-water pressure, TS-traverse speed, SOD-stand-off distance, and AQ-abrasive quantity. The desirability optimization technique adopted to minimize the surface roughness (Ra) and kerf angle (KA). An experimental examination shows that when water jet pressure was raised to its maximum value, the Ra and KA considerably reduced by 28.69% and 8.25%, respectively. Similar to how the Ra and KR significantly reduced by an extent of 7.4% and 3.5% when the abrasive quantity was increased to its higher value. However, when SOD and TS increased, a reversal impact on Ra and KA was seen. According to surface topology study, the brittle fracture occurs with micro-chipping, and for the kevlar fiber, bulk machining.

Keywords

Roughness., Titanium, Jute, Kevlar, Abrasive, Kerf

Supporting Institution

This work was supported by the Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Padur, Chennai-603103 [SEED/CRC/HITS/2022-23-008].

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