Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) is widely used in the aerospace field due to its light weight and high strength. The CFRP milling process is prone to damage such as burrs and tears. The cutting force is closely related to the damage of CFRP and tool wear. In this paper, a back propagation (BP) neural network model of cutting force and edge force coefficients was established. The model considers the effects of instantaneous uncut chip thickness, fiber cutting angle, spindle speed, and axial depth of cut. The unidirectional CFRP laminate instantaneous milling model considering the cutting edge force was further established. The instantaneous milling force prediction model was extended to multi-directional CFRP laminates. And the relationship between the damage mechanism of CFRP and the instantaneous milling force was analyzed. Experiments have proved that the instantaneous milling force prediction model built in this paper has high accuracy.
CFRP/Al laminate material is widely used in aerospace due to its advantages of light weight and high machinability. For assembling, crowded assembly holes need to be drilled for CFRP/Al laminate products. However, the damages of burr, delamination, and tearing appear frequently in drilling without precise guidance by mechanical response model. In order to reduce the machining damages, in this paper, a high-reliability mechanical response model is established for each stage in laminate materials drilling to ascertain the matching method between materials, tools, and cutting parameters. The theoretical expression of drilling thrust based on the thin plate theory is established considering the influence of cutting parameters, and further corrected with the cutting parameter correction terms to predict drilling thrust force, and further guiding the optimization of drilling parameters. According to the experimental results, the proposed model has a reliability greater than 97.3% and a prediction deviation lower than 13.2% in CFRP/Al laminate material drilling thrust force prediction. In the cutting with optimized parameters from the proposed model, the inlet orifice of the laminated material has no flanging burr, and the CFRP layer exit orifice has no defects as burr, delamination, or tearing.
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