Abstract:
Composites materials have wide applications in different industries because of it has very
different properties from the metals and polymers. Drilling is very common in composites to
assemble different composite parts together. In the drilling of Carbon/Epoxy Composites the cut
surface quality is very much dependent on the drilling parameters set during drilling which
further effect the strength of the hole during tensile/compression loading. The delamination
effect is also observed after drilling. In this research, Carbon Fiber Epoxy Composite material is
drilled with the standard carbide drill bit and Open Hole Compression (OHC) tests are performed
on the Universal Testing Machine. The Digital Image Correlation (DIC) technique is used to find
out the strain distribution around the hole during compression loading.
