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A Review on Drilling of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

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The drilling is a very important machining process to increase the joining efficiency of assembled parts. In this review, the consolidation of various composite materials with different fibers are discussed. Different drill tools, their materials and geometries, and drilling methods, such as conventional, vibration-assisted, and high-speed ones, are considered, and various numerical models for determining the critical thrust force and delamination are analyzed. It is concluded that unconventional geometries and materials give better results in reducing the thrust force and delamination compared than the traditional materials and geometrical shapes of drill tools

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 139-158, January-February, 2021. Russian DOI: 10.22364/mkm.58.1.08.

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Kumar, A.M., Parameshwaran, R., Rajasekar, R. et al. A Review on Drilling of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites. Mech Compos Mater 58, 97–112 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-022-10014-5

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