Technological possibilities of high-precision plasma cutting in processing materials of different class

Improving the technologies and equipment at a stage of the blank production in mechanical engineering greatly determines the reduction in the technological production costs. The use of modern technological complexes on cutting sheet materials provides a solution to tasks for increasing the accuracy of forming. Nowadays high-precision plasma cutting is developing. It can be considered as an alternative to the laser cutting in achieving high characteristics of the cut accuracy and quality. The paper under consideration presents the results of optimizing the processing speed for the existing schemes of high-precision plasma cutting in the range of the cut thickness from 1 mm to 30 mm for carbon steel, alloy steel and aluminum steel. The efficiency of using the technological scheme HiFocusplus for cutting such bimetallic compositions as “steel St3 + steel 12H18N10T”, “steel St3 + aluminum A5M”, “steel St3 + copper M1” is presented. It is determined that the best characteristics of the accuracy and quality of the cut are achieved in cutting the composition “steel ST3 + steel 12H18N10T” from the side of low-carbon steel. Cutting from the side of aluminum and copper respectively is optimal for such compositions as “steel St3 + aluminum A5M” and “steel St3 + copper M1”.