With breakthroughs in composites leading to dramatic improvements in strength-to-weight ratios, these materials have become much more common in airframe components. This brings a new set of challenges to the machining process. Care must be taken to avoid breakout or delamination, fiber tear out or melting of the matrix material. Tool life tends to be shorter when cutting these materials and tools, machining strategies and cutting processes have to be selected with care to achieve the needed quality levels. Drilling of stacked materials that include aluminum or titanium alloys adds an extra level of complexity. Seco’s wide range of tools for composites applications, as well as our deep expertise in this area, are a vital resource to aerospace manufacturers.
Tooling for Aerospace Airframe Ribs
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Minimaster Plus - Center Drilling/Chamfering
Minimaster - Plunging
Minimaster - Center Drilling/Chamfering
Turbo with tipped PCD - 1-Cutting-edge Single-sided Inserts
Turbo 10 - Insert Size 10
Milling
Spot facing mills
High Feed SP - Insert size 07
Plunge Mills SC - 4 cutting edges single-sided inserts
Plunge Mills
High Feed SC - 4 cutting edges single-sided inserts
High Feed 6 - 6 cutting edges double-sided inserts
High Feed 2 - Insert size 05
High Feed Mills
Round Insert Cutters - Insert Size 16
High Feed SP07
Copy Mills
FB 760D - Digital Axiabore axial fine boring heads
.38 - WA Fixed Pocket - Wedge Clamping
