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This work investigates the effect of silica nanoparticles functionalized with poly-diallyldimethylammonium chloride (PDDA) and silica microparticle inclusions (1.0 wt% and 3.5 wt%) on the impact resistance of hybrid carbon fibre reinforced composite laminates (HCFRCs) and tensile modulus of particle reinforced polymers (PRPs) via Full-Factorial Design of Experiments. The data were analysed with Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The inclusion of particles led to reduced impact absorption of HCFRCs, except for composites with 1.0 wt% of silica in microscale, which provides an increase of 11.75% in the impact resistance. Microstructural analysis of fractured impact samples revealed pull-out as the predominant fracture mode in 1.0 wt% silica microparticle composites. Such mechanism leads to impact energy dissipation which may explain the increased impact resistance of these samples.

Over the years, with the increasing development of engineering materials, the emergence of new composites, fiber metal laminated, biomaterials, metal alloys etc., and with demand for products less expensive, less polluting and more efficient, the manufacturing engineering also needs to develop to be able to process these new materials. Materials and tool geometries, intelligent mechanisms, modular machines, also follow this setting. To that end, this work comes to raise the main parameters that influence in the hole quality surface of finished product. Were used two polymeric materials, ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMW-PE) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), two feed rates, three rotations and three tool geometries, allowing to identify which of these parameters have greater influence on the thrust force and the characteristics of the finished product and dimensional deviation.