RT Journal Article T1 Theoretical estimation of thermal effects in drilling of woven carbon fiber composite A1 Díaz Álvarez, José A1 Olmedo Marcos, Álvaro A1 Santiuste Romero, Carlos A1 Miguélez Garrido, María Henar AB Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRPs) composites are extensively used in structural applications due to their attractive properties. Although the components are usually made near net shape, machining processes are needed to achieve dimensional tolerance and assembly requirements. Drilling is a common operation required for further mechanical joining of the components. CFRPs are vulnerable to processing induced damage; mainly delamination, fiber pull-out, and thermal degradation, drilling induced defects being one of the main causes of component rejection during manufacturing processes. Despite the importance of analyzing thermal phenomena involved in the machining of composites, only few authors have focused their attention on this problem, most of them using an experimental approach. The temperature at the workpiece could affect surface quality of the component and its measurement during processing is difficult. The estimation of the amount of heat generated during drilling is important; however, numerical modeling of drilling processes involves a high computational cost. This paper presents a combined approach to thermal analysis of composite drilling, using both an analytical estimation of heat generated during drilling and numerical modeling for heat propagation. Promising results for indirect detection of risk of thermal damage, through the measurement of thrust force and cutting torque, are obtained PB MDPI AG SN 1996-1944 YR 2014 FD 2014-01 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/21589 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/21589 LA eng NO This work was supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain under the project DPI2011-25999 DS e-Archivo RD 30 abr. 2024