EVALUATION OF EFFECT OF MACHINING PARAMETERS ON SURFACE ROUGHNESS IN DRILLING OF GLASS FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER (GFRP) COMPOSITE MATERIAL WITH DIFFERENT DRILL BITS
Meltem Altin Karatas
Quarterly No. 2, 2022 pages 87-91
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keywords: glass fiber reinforced polymer composite, drilling, surface roughness, Taguchi method
abstract In the present study, the arithmetical mean roughness (Ra) values obtained as a result of drilling glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite material produced in fiber orientation angles (0º/90º) with different drill bits in a 5-axis CNC controlled vertical machining center, were analyzed. The experimental design was applied with the Taguchi method. The drilling experiments were performed using Minitab 19 software according to the Taguchi L18 orthogonal array. The test results were evaluated based on the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio. Two different drill bits (HSS and carbide), three different spindle speeds (750, 1000, 1500 rpm) and three different feed rates (0.05, 0.10, 0.15 mm/rev) were selected as the control factors. The effect levels of the control factors on Ra were found by applying analysis of variance (ANOVA). A confidence level of 95.62% was obtained with ANOVA analysis. The lowest Ra value was 1.279 μm at the spindle speed of 1500 rpm and the feed rate of 0.05 mm/rev using a carbide drill bit. The drill bit type was obtained as the parameter with the highest effect with a rate of 61.33%.