PARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION OF ABRASIVE WATER JET MACHINING PROCESS USING COPRAS AND VIKOR METHODS

Abrasive Waterjet Machining (AWJM) is one of the widely used non-traditional machining process to cut the hard materials like aluminium metal matrix composites (AMMCs) and the materials which are very difficult to machine using conventional machining due to their high hardness and tendency to cause tool wear. Present work two popular multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques Complex Proportional Assessment (COPRAS) AND VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) Methods have been used to optimize the AWJM machining process parameters for the machining of AMMCs. Both equal weight and standard deviation methods are used to find the weight of three response parameters like material removal rate, surface roughness and kerf width. From the results it is observed that there is a strong correlation between the weight calculation and the MCDM techniques which shows the robustness of the techniques. It is also noticed that machining with highest traverse speed and with out silicon carbide (SiC) is giving good response paramètres. However machining with low traverse speed is giving worst response parameters.