Experimental study of thrust force and surface quality when drilling hybrid stacks

Increasing aircrafts’ productivity and reducing their riveting time have created the need of one-shot drilling of dissimilar materials. The present work had followed this strategy on 4 shaft satin weave carbon fiber and epoxy matrix (AS-4 woven CFRP) and aluminum alloy (AA 2189) in order to study the effect of drilling direction on Al and carbon fiber reinforced polymer thrust force evolution and holes’ quality. It presents a comparison between...