Present status and some critical issues of abrasive jet materials processing: a review

Abrasive jet bombarding is one of the versatile materials processing techniques and is applied in abrasive jet machining, deburring, shot-peening, erosion testing, fast cleaning, surface preparation and polishing. Some special types of operations like micro-machining, polishing of micro-channels are the current issues in research and development. Various critical issues of abrasive jet material processing are reviewed and presented in this paper.