Cutting Force Model in Milling of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic

Abstract:

The demand of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) has been increased in aircraft and automobile industries. In milling of CFRP, the cutting parameters should be determined to finish the machining surfaces without delamination. The tool wear is also a critical issue to finish good surfaces. The paper presents a force model to study the milling process of CFRP. In order to investigate the anisotropy in milling of CFRP, the cutting tests were conducted for unidirectional CFRPs with changing the feed direction of the milling tool. The cutting force and the surface finish depend on the feed direction with respect to the fiber orientation. A force model based on the minimum cutting energy is applied to milling of CFRP. The orthogonal cutting data used in the force model is associated with the relative angle of the cutting edge rotation angle to the fiber orientation. The model was verified in comparison between the predicted and the measured cutting forces. The model also estimates the effect of the feed direction with respect to the fiber orientations on the cutting force in terms of anisotropy in the orthogonal cutting data.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 611-612)
• Pages: 1166-1173
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.611-612.1166
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Shoichi Tamura, Takashi Matsumura*
• Keywords: Anisotropy, CFRP, Cutting Force, Energy Approach, Milling, Simulation, Surface Finish

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