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Glass is an important engineering material used in several applications because of its attractive look, chemical stability towards environment, nonporosity, and transparent nature. Its application is widely found in optomechatronic systems, windows of buildings, art work, etc. Glass cutting is the ®rst step in the fabrication for any of its applications. Conventionally, plate glass (soda lime glass) is cut by a diamond point tool or a diamond wheel. The cut surfaces by this method are rough and wavy. Microcracks, which aect the life and quality of glass, may develop during cutting. It is dicult to cut nonstraight pro®les by the conventional method and glass wastage is more. Curved pro®les cannot be cut in a single step. Recently, glass cutting using laser and abrasive waterjet have been developed. Laser cutting is very costly, unsafe and leaves a heated-aected zone. Researchers have used laser cutting on glasses of thicknesses lesser than 1 mm. Abrasive waterjet requires de-ionized very high pressure water with entrained garnet abrasive. This method produces rough cut surfaces and causes wear of diamond nozzles. A novel method is developed which uses a low cost, simple, hot air jet

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Author

E.S Prakash; K Sadashivappa; Vince Joseph; M Singaperumal

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0957-4158)

Published

2001

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)