Investigations on performance characteristics of GFRP composites in milling

• Published in: International journal of advanced manufacturing technology Vol. 99; no. 5-8; pp. 1351 - 1360
• Main Authors: Prasanth, I. S. N. V. R., Ravishankar, D. V., Hussain, M. Manzoor, Badiganti, Chandra Mouli, Sharma, Vinod Kumar, Pathak, Sunil
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Springer London 01.11.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: CAE) and Design; Carbide tools; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD; Dimensional tolerances; End milling; Engineering; Feed rate; Fiber composites; Fiber reinforced polymers; Glass fiber reinforced plastics; Industrial and Production Engineering; Laminates; Machine shops; Mechanical Engineering; Media Management; Milling (machining); Morphology; Optimization; Original Article; Orthogonal arrays; Parameter identification; Polymer matrix composites; Product design; Surface defects; Surface properties; Surface roughness; Unidirectional composites; Variance analysis; ANOVA, SEM; Composites; Surface roughness; Machining force; UD-GFRP; Milling

Milling of glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites becomes essential in order to enhance its surface quality by improving its dimensional tolerances, and minimizing the surface defects. In present work, investigations were done to optimize the four important milling parameters, namely, spin...