Evaluation of Thrust force in Drilling Woven roving Glass fibre reinforced Aluminium Sandwich laminates with TiAlN coated drill using Taguchi analysis

Abstract

TiAlN is a high-performance coating which outshines in coarse and hard-to-machine materials like cast iron, aluminium alloys, tool steels, and nickel alloys. This paper presents the prediction and evaluation of thrust force and Torque in drilling of Woven roving Glass Fibre Reinforced Plastic and Aluminium sandwich laminate. The Prediction is based on Taguchi method. The experimental results specify that the feed rate and the drill diameter are the most significant factors affecting the thrust force, while the feed rate and spindle speed contribute the most to the surface roughness. In this study, the objective was to establish a correlation between the feed rate, spindle speed and drill diameter with the induced thrust force and Torque in drilling sandwich laminate.