What Is Water Jet Cutting

What Is Water Jet Cutting

A water jet cutting in Campbellfield is a term that is usually confused by people with pressure washer. However, this is a different terminology but also utilizes the principle of pressure in its working. The waterjet cutter is sometimes shortened as water jet. This is a process which involves a beam of water at high pressure in order to cut some metal. Sometimes the beam only contains water but many times the water is mixed with abrasive material i.e. a mineral which is used to finish up some metal piece by producing friction due to which the surface is finished. Although, sperate terms are used for this, the abrasive jets are those which use mixture of water and abrasive material in order to get very hard materials which include the granite or some metals. Whereas the pure water jet has just water in its beam and is used to cut relatively softer materials such as rubber or even wood.  

It is one of the most famous and commonly used techniques in cutting the metals during https://www.wallanengineering.com.au/stainless-steel-fabrication/ because of the reason that some metals are very sensitive and these cannot bear the heat on high temperature and most of the methods and techniques used for cutting metals involve high heating therefore waterjet is used in such cases. The popular fields for the waterjets are the aerospace and mining. As you know that most of the metals change their properties either intrinsic or extrinsic on high temperatures, therefore this method allows metal to retain its intrinsic properties.  

Waterjets cannot only cut in standard shapes but these can actually cut the metals in the radii of every measurement. Moreover, these are also able to produce very complicated shapes that are complex to deal with by the help of 3D modelling. The accuracy that these can offer are around 0.005 inches. 

The waterjet is not only used in cutting the materials and metals but are also very famous for cutting the meat. The reason of its popularity in cutting the meat is that it provides a hygienic way to cut the meat because there is a chance of contamination if the meat is cut by some blade of some metal.  The waterjet is versatile in its nature. It can be modified and adjusted according to different conditions. Many metals can be cut using it therefore it is used in various industry is common. The metals commonly cut by these jets include rubber, foam, plastic, leather, tiles, granite, wood, paper, glass, stone, leather, food items and many more. metal-fabrications

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