Identification and thermomechanical analysis of the annular Fiber–Chip accumulation phenomenon in micro-drilling of PA6 glass/carbon hybrid thermoplastic composites

Sobhan Baradaran, Mehdi Ansari, Ali Akhondi, Hamed Deilami Azodi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Arak University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University

Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials

Published online on July 29, 2026

Abstract

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The growing adoption of hybrid thermoplastic composites in lightweight advanced structures has heightened the need to understand their behavior during micromachining operations, yet research in this domain remains scarce. In this work, the microdrilling ...