Water Jet: No Heat Affected Zone

The versatility of water jet machines make them ideal for cutting a wide range of materials, rubbers, plastics, stone, tiles, composites and even pre-hardened materials. Abrasive water jet cutting is a cost-effective shape cutting method for materials requiring no heat affected zone, no edge damage, no slag, no burnt edges, and no change to the material chemical or mechanical properties.

Thermal shape cutting methods such as torch, plasma, and laser as well as but to a lesser degree mechanical processes like shear, machining, and saw cutting can create substantial heat causing mechanical properties of material to change as a direct result. These localized heat generating processes create what is called a heat affected zone.

Abrasive waterjet cutting is well suited for metallurgical evaluation preparation and cross-section analysis. Mechanical properties of the material will not change and no stress will be introduced unlike the heat generating processes discussed previously.

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Multi-Head Water Jet Cutting

Water jet machines come in many forms, sizes, and styles, with numerous features, for a variety of programs. 

                                

Waterjet cutting systems are much like other shape cutting techniques utilizing computer managed movement and post handling of tool tracks, for precision cutting. The flexibility water jet devices make them ideal for reducing a variety of components, rubbers, plastic materials, stone, flooring, compounds and even pre-hardened components, making them useful in maintenance all sectors. For the OEM or job shop suggesting the purchase of an abrasive waterjet cutting system, an question to consider; how many cutting heads will I need? Most of the smaller and less costly waterjet cutting systems use one cutting head, while larger and thusly more costly water jet devices can include multi-head options. 

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