Ultrasonically Assisted Drilling: Machining towards Improved Structural Integrity in Carbon/Epoxy Composites

Abstract:

Conventional-drilling (CD) methods often initiate discrete damage phenomena such as micro-cracking, matrix burning; delamination and fibre pull-out in difficult-to-machine heterogeneous materials such as carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites. Ultrasonically assisted drilling (UAD) is a promising machining technique suitable for drilling holes in CFRP composites. UAD has been shown to possess several advantages over CD, including reduction in a thrust force and torque, diminished burr formation at drill exit in ductile materials and an overall improvement in roundness and surface finish of the drilled hole. Recently, our in-house experiments of UAD in CFRP composites demonstrated remarkable reductions in levels of thrust force and torque (average force reductions in excess of 60%) when compared to CD with the same machining parameters. 3D Finite Element (FE) models of CD and UAD techniques for a CFRP laminate were developed using a general-purpose FE software ABAQUS/Explicit and validated using experimental results. The magnitudes of thrust force and torque obtained with FE analysis of UAD are compared with those for CD. The numerical results obtained with the developed FE model were found to be in a good agreement with the experimental data.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 569-570)
• Pages: 49-55
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.569-570.49
• Online since: July 2013
• Authors: Vaibhav A. Phadnis, Farrukh Makhdum, Anish Roy, Vadim V. Silberschmidt
• Keywords: Carbon/Epoxy Composite, Delamination, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Ultrasonically Assisted Drilling

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