21st International Conference on Water Jetting: Looking to the Future, Learning from the Past, Ottawa, Kanada, 19 - 22 Eylül 2012, ss.415-422, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Waterjet technology has been used for cutting and machining of various kinds of materials for several decades. Together with the developing of abrasive waterjet (AWJ), various operations can be performed under lower pressures recently. A vast number of experimental studies have been conducted to continue developing this technique into an effective cutting and machining tool. An experimental study on the surface roughness of the granites machined by AWJ was presented in this study. The experimental studies were conducted on the basis of the Taguchi orthogonal arrays. A correlation matrix was produced to investigate the strength of the linear relationships between the material properties and surface roughness of the tested rocks. Additionally, a well-known statistical technique, multiple regression analysis, was also applied to experimental results and material properties to build models for prediction of surface roughness of the granites. The statistical models having high correlations were also validated. © BHR Group 2012 Water Jetting 21.