Drilling of Fibre Reinforced Polymers and Hybrid Stacked Materials

Hole making represents the majority of the machining operations of composites and hybrid stacked aerospace-structures. Conventional drilling induced part defects, such as delamination of layers and thermal damage of the matrix, are of major economic and safety concerns for aerospace manufacturers. This chapter discusses selected emerging non-conventional processes for drilling of composites and hybrid stacks, which could effectively prevent the …