How do waterjet cutting work?

How do waterjet cutting work?
Use ordinary tap water and pressurized to 60,000 psi (4000 bar) and is currently going through a very small hole. Water mixed with garnet polish, and you have a thin stream of water to travel more quickly to rapid erosion of this material is great.

Some waterjet, waterjet innocent "and did not add these garnet abrasive is used to cut softer materials such as food, rubber and foam.

Waterjet Cutting works

What can waterjets cut? What can't they cut?
Waterjet can cut just about any material that could make a plate and place it in front of any of them.

The most popular material is metal. (Aluminum, especially because of relatively mild and diluted quickly) because the waterjet can cut complex shapes to high accuracy to quickly and economically. Because metal was cut to most of shops machining, water jets are likely to reduce the large number of fabricated metal

Water jet cutting stone and glass to normal because the waterjet will be a complex shape can not use the traditional method of turning. These materials have been popular with artists like to work with these documents and waterjet because it allows them to create almost anything they can see.

Among the very few materials that can not be waterjet cutting diamonds and glass. Diamonds are too hard to cut. (And probably a few other hard materials that can not be cut) glass to shatter when cut with waterjet. (Glass is designed to make the shattered when they are Harry and is often used in windshields this reason).

Ceramics, advanced a few hard not economical to cut them some composite materials (class of materials of different sandwich together) can not be cut because the water is absorbed between the layers and "delaminate". material Mixture of very good cut, though, and the technique is to cut laminated materials.