• Sanjay C. Shah
• Dipesh P. Patel
• Bhupendra N Parmar

Abrasive Water Jet Machining (AWJM) is a nontraditional machining process wherein high-pressure water jet mixed with abrasive particles strikes on the hard and difficult to cut materials (by conventional machining process). AWJM has got very wide manufacturing applications like cutting, milling, cleaning and surface treatment of metals and glass, granites like materials. Stainless Steel (SS304) possessing high strength and toughness, is usually known to offer major challenges during its cutting. In this work, Taguchi’s DOE approach is used to plan and design the experiments to study the effect of AWJM process parameter, like traverse speed, standoff distance and abrasive flow. Subsequently, using analysis of variance (ANOVA) the significance and contribution of each input parameter on surface roughness is determined.

AWJM, Stainless Steel, Taguchi, ANOVA, traverse speed, stand-off distance (SOD), abrasive flow rate, surface roughness.

"Parametric Analysis of Abrasive Water Jet Machining.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.352-356, May 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCQ06066.pdf

"Parametric Analysis of Abrasive Water Jet Machining.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp352-356, May 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCQ06066.pdf