*Assistant Professor, Department of Production Engineering, J.J. College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
**Principal and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MAM School of Engineering, Sriganur, Tamil Nadu, India
***Assistant Professor, Department of Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
****Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, J.J. College of Engineering and Technology, Trichy, Tamil Nadu, India
Online published on 14 February, 2017.
Drilling on GFRP composite materials in micron level is a complex work due to its heterogeneity and the problems such as delamination, fiber push up/pull out, overcut, dimensional deviation and circularity error which show during the machining process. This work presents optimizing the machining parameters on drilling Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) composites. Optimization of machining parameters was carry out by an analysis called desirability function analysis (DFA), which is the technique for optimizing multi-response problems. In this work, as per the design of experiment, drilling processes were carrying out on GFRP composite using solid carbide drill. The cutting speed and feed are optimized by multi-response considerations namely hole size, delamination factor and circularity error. Based on analysis, the optimum levels of factors have been identified and significant contribution of parameters is determined by analysis of variance.
GFRP composites, Taguchi, Desirability function analysis, ANOVA, Solid carbide drill
