3D topography for environmentally friendly machined surfaces

Nowadays more and more scientific paper deals with drilling. In recent years there have been limited changes to the drill design but considerable improvements have been made in the selection of drill materials, drill coatings, flute design and the cutting fluid guiding methods. All of these improvements have been introduced to improve the surface finish of the drilled hole, reduce the energy during drilling process and to reduce ecological damage to the cutting fluids, which carry away heat and debris from the cutting zone. The paper briefly describes the development of surface characterization to its current 3D capability. It shows how selected parameters can assist with drill process analysis and how this can be supported through the introduction of the planned new ISO International Standard for 3D surface characterization. The paper is supported by a sample-drilling test to demonstrate the power of the proposed analysis