Composite materials such as Fiber Metal Laminates (FMLs) have attracted the interest of the
aerospace and automotive industries due to their high strength to weight ratio, but to use …

Carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) is a lightweight composite material with high
mechanical properties, which has been applied in many fields. Especially in the aerospace …

Mechanical drilling has been frequently used for hole making of hybrid CFRP/Ti stacks in
order to ensure excellent fastening assembly. Owing to their inhomogeneous behavior and …

Depending on the expanding application areas of glass fiber reinforced composite
materials, quality machining of such materials also receives increasing interest. However …

Fiber and metal materials used in Fiber Metal Laminate (FML) have different machinability
properties due to their different structures. This case has made it a research topic to obtain …

While there has been a significant amount of research on drilling composite-metal stacks,
limited work has been carried out on the machinability of fibre metal laminates (FMLs) used …

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Ultrasonic-assisted drilling (UAD) of Glass
laminate aluminium reinforced epoxy (GLARE) at high cutting speeds (Spindle speeds …

Abstract Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) composites are widely used in various engineering
fields and applications. FRPs were initially fabricated using thermoset polymers owing to …

S2 glass fibre reinforced epoxy composites are widely used in aeronautical applications
owing to their excellent strength to weight ratio. Drilling glass fibres can be cumbersome due …

Drilling operations in glass laminate aluminium reinforced epoxy (GLARE) hybrid laminates
require different optimisation of machining parameters from those used in the drilling of its …