Effect of Machining Parameters on Roystoneafiber Reinforced Composites

The present project work deals with the machining of natural fiber composite to study the delamination effect. The natural fiber composite consists of ROYSTONEA(Royal palm fiber) and material has matrix. And this composite has been fabricated by using hand layup method after extracting the fiber by retting method. Drilling operation has been carried out on the fabricated composite by using CNC machine to study the effect of delamination. In the first phase of the work, design of experiments software has been used for finding out the optimum number of samples for carrying out the experiment. In addition, in the second phase of the experiment the composites have been fabricated according to the norms of design of experiments. In the third phase of the work AUTO-CAD software has been used for dimensioning the holes drilled on the fabricated composites, once again design of experiments software is used for computing the delamination effect on fabricated component by varying speed, feed. This overall project work emphasizes that the feed is the main parameter and the speed is almost negotiable parameter in drilling process on royal form fiber composites for delamination. In addition, this project work lays a platform for further machining process on fiber composites. Keywords— Royal palm fiber, Natural fiber reinforced composites, Delamination.