An experimental study on drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced plastic/titanium alloy was conducted using three kinds of drills to investigate the cutting process. This research was mainly focused on the drilling forces, drilling temperatures, chips, and delamination area with respect to the cutting parameters and tool geometries. One type of tungsten carbide twist drill and two types of chemical vapor deposition diamond-coated drills which were multi-facet drill and brad spur drill, respectively, were used in this research. The influence of drilling parameters and tool geometries was analyzed and the conclusions were drawn that the proper selection of drilling parameters and drill geometries could lead to better hole quality. Experimental results indicated that the drilling forces and hole quality have a strong connection with feed rate while the impact of cutting speed is small. Research results also showed that the use of multi-facet drill could reduce the delamination greatly and thus produced a better surface integrity. Besides, drilling temperature and titanium alloy chips were studied in this research.

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the influences of carbon fibers on the fracture mechanism of carbon fibers both in macroscopic view and microscopic view by using single-point flying cutting method. Cutting tools with three different materials were used in this research, namely, PCD (polycrystalline diamond) tool, CVD (chemical vapor deposition) diamond thin film coated carbide tool and uncoated carbide tool. The influence of fiber orientation on the cutting force and fracture topography were analyzed and conclusions were drawn that cutting forces are not affected by cutting speeds but significantly influenced by the fiber orientation. Cutting forces presented smaller values in the fiber orientation of 0/180° and 15/165° but the highest one in 30/150°. The fracture mechanism of carbon fibers was studied in different cutting conditions such as 0° orientation angle, 90° orientation angle, orientation angles along fiber direction, and orientation angles inverse to the fiber direction. In addition, a prediction model on the cutting defects of carbon fiber reinforced plastic was established based on acoustic emission (AE) signals.

Turbo codes and CRC codes are usually decoded separately according to the serially concatenated inner codes and outer codes respectively. In this letter, we propose a hybrid decoding algorithm of turbo-CRC codes, where the outer codes, CRC codes, are not used for error detection but as an assistance to improve the error correction performance. Two independent iterative decoding and reliability based decoding are carried out in a hybrid schedule, which can efficiently decode the two different codes as an entire codeword. By introducing an efficient error detecting method based on normalized Euclidean distance without CRC check, significant gain can be obtained by using the hybrid decoding method without loss of the error detection ability.

A polar code extension method which supports incremental redundancy hybrid ARQ(IR-HARQ) is proposed in this paper. By copying information bits to proper positions of the extend part, the extended polar code can give additional protection for the bits weakly protected by the first transmission. A comparison between the proposed algorithm with directly generated polar code, LTE turbo code, and some other IR-HARQ supporting polar code is given. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm has nearly the same performance as directly generated polar code, which is chosen as base line for comparison.