This book offers recommendations on the milling processes for the carbon fiber reinforced
plastic CFRP Al2024. Due to the anisotropic and non-homogeneous structure of CFRP and the
ductile nature of aluminum the machining of this material is very challenging and causes
various types of damage such as matrix cracking and thermal alterations fiber pullout and
fuzzing during drilling and trimming which affect the quality of machined surface. The book
studies and models the machined surface quality of CFRP Al2024 using a two-level full factorial
design experiment. It describes the processes of trimming using down milling and statistically
and graphically analyzes the influence and interaction of cutting parameters. Lastly the book
presents the optimization of the cutting parameters in order to create a surface texture
quality of CFRP Al2024 to less than 1 µm.
