composite material
History
Composite materials, especially hard and brittle composite materials, are being applied in more fields due to their special properties. Meanwhile, both hard and brittle materials, as well as composite materials, are difficult to handle using traditional processing methods, and their processing has become a challenge in the industry.
Water Jet Guided Laser
The non-contact and material property ignoring characteristics of water jet guided laser technology perfectly solve the pain points in the processing of hard and brittle composite materials.
The case showed above is diamond doped tungsten carbide, the size of diamond inside is over 300 μm.
It's a huge challenge for traditional processing.
Watlaser takes only 5 percent of time to finish the job compared with traditional processing.
CMC Cutting Case
CMC (Ceramic Matrix Composite) material has been successfully applied in some harsh scenarios in the aerospace industry and can be further used in other fields in the future.
On the left, it's a 4.1 mm thick CMC material, where Watlaser drill a 0.3 mm diameter hole.
CMC Cutting Case
On the right, is the partially zoom pic, where you could see the 0.3mm diameter hole.