Title: Study the drilling behaviour of aluminium 6061 metal matrix composites using Taguchi's methodology

Authors: Sarbjit Singh

Addresses: Department of Mechanical Engineering, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, 160012, India

Abstract: Drilling of holes in MMCs with conventional tool lead to a novel set of challenges for researchers. The abrasive nature of the reinforcement causes high tool wear rate, increase in cutting forces and surface roughness of the drilled hole wall. The various machine tool parameters and cutting tool parameters (tool material, point angle, drill point geometry, etc.) have been investigated to obtain an optimum combination of parameters for optimised output quality characteristics.

Keywords: drilling behaviour; aluminium composites; metal matrix composites; MMCs; thrust force; surface roughness; surface quality; Taguchi methods; hole drilling; tool wear; cutting forces; machine tool parameters; cutting tool parameters.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMMM.2016.077707

International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials, 2016 Vol.18 No.4, pp.327 - 340

Received: 16 Apr 2015
Accepted: 28 Aug 2015
Published online: 13 Jul 2016 *

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