An international energy company needed to locate where there was a failure in a 4000 lb experimental copper test cylinder. The cylinder was approximately 72” long with a 48” OD and a 36”ID with multilayerd plastics and copper wire wound inside. Conventional means of splitting cannot be used because of its size, weight and interrupted cut. There was also a concern of destroying the integrity inside of the cylinder during this process.
Solution
Arcadia was asked if it was possible to open up the cylinder with waterjet. After reviewing the project our engineers and operators set up the cylinder inside the tank of our single head 2.5 axis table. First we split the cylinder open by cutting the length on one side and then flipping over and making the exact cut on the other side. Once split, our customer was so impressed with the clean cut they asked us to continue cutting sections so they could further evaluate different areas of failure. This resulted in huge savings in man hours and coordinated testing while offering our customer an inexpensive way for testing and troubleshooting.
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