Jet Cutting Technology [Paperback]

This volume contains papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Jet Cutting Technology, held at St. Andrews, Scotland, on 8-10 September 1992.
Jetting techniques have been successfully applied for many years in the field of cleaning and descaling. Today, however, jet cutting is used in operations as diverse as removing cancerous growths from the human body, decommissioning sunsea installations and disabling explosive munitions.
The diversity is reflected in the papers presented at the conference. The papers were divided into several main sections: jetting basics -- materials; jetting basics -- fluid mechanics; mining and quarrying; civil engineering; new developments; petrochem; cleaning and surface treatment; and manufacturing.
The high quality of papers presented at the conference has further reinforced its position as the premier event in the field. The volume will be of interest to researchers, developers and manufacturers of systems, equipment users and contractors.
Jetting Basics  Materials.- Investigation of the pure waterjet-workpiece interaction.- On the modelling of surface waviness produced by abrasive-waterjets.- Jetting Basics  Fluid Mechanics.- Attenuators volume influence on high pressures pulsations in a jet cutting unit.- A theoretical approach to the analysis of gas abrasive two phase flow model for abrasive jet machining.- Measurement of particle and drop velocities in a mixed abrasive waterjet using a forward- scatter LDV system.- A study of the practicality of cavitating water jets.- On an energetic semi-empirical model of hydro-abrasive jet material removal mechanism for control and optimization.- Mining and Quarrying.- Theoretical evaluation of pick tips assisted by high pressure water jets.- Abrasive material in the process of AWJ cutting.- Water jet assisted coal cutting.- Problems on the development of some machines assisted by water-jets in Japanese coal mineslc"