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 …

Drilling is regarded as the most complex manufacturing process compared with other
conventional machining processes. During the drilling process, most of the energy …

Here, we report the first study on the hole making performance of thermoplastic carbon fibre/
polyetherketoneketone (CF/PEKK) composite. Different hole making methods (conventional …

The role of annealing heat treatment (AHT) in high-temperature oxidation resistance at
700℃ of the laser powder bed fused (LPBFed) Ti6Al4V alloy subjected to massive laser …

Wrought-additive hybrid manufacturing technology effectively combines the advantages of
high efficiency of traditional manufacturing and high flexibility of additive manufacturing …

Helical milling is applied to the machining of CFRP owing to its favorable characteristics
such as low cutting forces and heat generation. However, the prediction of helical milling …

Helical milling has been applied for hole-making in titanium alloys, especially in the Ti-6Al-
4V alloy, considering the aims of the aeronautic, automobile, and other sectors. When …

In the manufacturing of a medical device may occur the need to make a hole with a specific
function. Among current methods, conventional drilling (CD) referred in this work as drilling …

Ti6Al4V alloy is one of the typical difficult-to-machine materials and often results in rapid tool
wear, leading to poor machining quality in aircraft assembling. Compared to conventional …

Hole drilling in Ti6Al4V titanium alloy is challenging due to its poor machinability resulting
from high-temperature strength and low thermal conductivity. Therefore, an evaluation of the …