Can a water gun really cut through steel plates? Why?

Water gun can not cut off the steel plate, waterjet and ultra-large high-pressure water gun for 380V industrial electricity, 500 kilograms of ultra-high pressure or more can cut off the steel plate, because the water gun is the water jet to a high or distant, but also as an engineering appliance of the water gun, is a high-pressure water flow into a high-speed water jets of the extraction machinery, ultra-large high-pressure water gun is generally also known as the waterjet, because the pressure can be up to the same as a large waterjet.

And the waterjet is a high-pressure water jet cutting technology, in high-pressure water mixed with garnet sand, emery and other abrasives to assist in cutting, greatly improving the waterjet cutting speed and cutting thickness. Waterjet has been widely used in ceramics, stone, glass, metal, composite materials and many other industries. The maximum pressure of the waterjet has been made to 420MPa, so the waterjet can cut the steel plate.

One of the advantages of the waterjet is that it has a wide range of applications and can cut virtually any item including stone, glass, paper, metal, composite materials and more. It is a cold cutting process, and compared to laser and plasma cutting, it leaves no HAZ (heat affected zone of welding) or mechanical deformation, and does not damage the integrity of the part.

Expanded Information

Commonly used steel plate thickness specifications in the following table:

Thick Steel Plate: Thickness greater than 4\5\6\8\10\12\14\16\20\25\30\40\50,10 within the width of less than 2,000mm, 10 above the width of 2000, 2,500mm in general, the length of 4~12m;

Thin Steel Plate: Thickness less than 4mm, width 500~1500mm, length 1.5~4m;

The width of the thin plate is 500~1500mm; thicker width 600~3000mm. Sheet according to the steel grade, there are ordinary steel, high-quality steel, alloy steel, spring steel, stainless steel, tool steel, heat-resistant steel, bearing steel, silicon steel and industrial pure iron sheet, etc.; according to the professional use of points, there are oil drums with the plate, enameling with the plate, bullet-proof with the plate, etc.; according to the surface coating layer, there are galvanized sheet, tin-plated sheet, lead-plated sheet, plastic composite steel plate, etc..

Flat steel? : Thickness 4~60mm, width 12~200mm, length 3~9m.

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