The study aims to investigate the cutting fluid for micro drilling of aluminum alloy 6061-T6. The components of communication equipment for 5G are becoming more and more important, so how to reduce the cost of production for the components of communication equipment for 5G is an important goal in the future. This study attempted to add graphite in cutting fluid to improve cutting performance. With the fixed cutting force to study whether it will affect the cutting performance. It means to reduce cutting time and built up edge (BUE).
This study is particularly aimed at the cutting processing of the components of communication equipment; so many micro-holes of this component need to be drilled. How to reduce drilling time, to reduce the cost of production is the final goal of this study. This experiment will add graphite in cutting fluid to cut aluminum alloy 6061-T6
First of all, to design and homemade automatic drilling machine to keep cutting constant force is first step of study. Through the experiments of aluminum alloy 6061-T6 drilling micro holes, the difference between ratio of cutting fluid and graphite , the reduction of drilling time will be found out.
Finally, the experimental results can be concluded: the graphite added to cutting fluid and graphite, the preliminary display can reduce the drilling time and thus increase the cutting rate, the details need to be studied more. Just graphite as cutting fluid has not function for cutting performance. The graphite must be used in conjunction with water-soluble cutting fluid, it means the use of graphite as an additive of cutting fluid.Further research needs to take into account the length and percentage of the drill static point, reduce the drilling time and BUE, to get a more detail information for micro drilling of aluminum alloy 6061-T6.
