Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) drilling operation is a very important machining
process in the aerospace industries. Ultrasonic vibration-assisted drilling (UVAD) has …

Forced low frequency vibration assisted drilling (forced LFVAD) is an important machining
method, in which the prediction of drilling thrust force and torque is necessary to optimize the …

Drilling is one of the most commonly used machining processes in various industries such
as automotive, aircraft and aerospace, dies/molds, home appliance, medical and electronic …

This article presents a mechanistic model to predict thrust force and torque in micro-drilling
of carbon fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite laminates. Tool edge radius effects are …

Vibration assistance has increasing applications in metal removal processes. This method
induces high-frequency and low-amplitude vibration in the feed direction during cutting, and …

The cutting force is regarded as the main factor that influences the quality of the hole created
in the drilling of carbon-fibre-reinforced plastic composites. This paper proposes a model for …

Delamination is a dramatic problem associated with drilling fibre-reinforced composite
materials (FRCMs), which, in addition to reducing the structural integrity of the material, also …

The flow stress data, determined in Part I of the present study, is validated by using it as an
input to the finite element method and analytical based computer programs to predict …

China's Chang'e lunar exploration project aims to sample and return lunar regolith samples
at a minimum penetration depth of 2 m in 2017. Unlike such tasks on the Earth, automated …

Delamination is recognized as one of the major causes of damage during drilling of fiber
reinforced plastics (FRPs), which not only reduces the structural integrity, but also has the …