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Conventional and unconventional machining performance of natural fibre-reinforced polymer composites: A review

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JOURNAL OF REINFORCED PLASTICS AND COMPOSITES
Volume 40, Issue 15-16, Pages 553-567

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0731684420958103

Keywords

Natural fibre composite; machining; drilling; milling; abrasive water-jet machining

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Natural fibre composites are a promising replacement for synthetic fibres due to their improved properties, biodegradability, and low cost. However, challenges in manufacturing and machining hinder large-scale production. Efforts have been made to study machining characteristics and failure mechanisms of fibre composites in both conventional and unconventional methods.
Natural fibre composites are the promising replacement for synthetic fibre owing to their improved properties, and more importantly, natural fibres are biodegradable and of low cost. These characteristics have made them viable for contemporary engineering and structural applications. However, large scale production of natural fibre composites is in prone because of the challenges in manufacturing and machining. Fibre composite exhibits poor machinability characteristics owing to their heterogeneous and anisotropic behaviour. To overcome this problem, various steps and new methodologies have been established in the view to produce quality machining in natural fibre composites. In recent years, the possibility of conventional machining in natural fibre composites was also discussed. In the present review study, an effort has been taken in studying the fibre composite's machining characteristics and their failure mechanism in both conventional and unconventional machining. The influence of process parameters in machining different natural fibre composites is also discussed.

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