Abstract: “Nowadays, the Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) has replaced many of the mechanical components and this composite industry is experiencing significant growth. FRP’s also have replaced several traditional materials used in building, sporting equipment/appliances, automotive/aircraft parts, boat and canoe hulls, and bodies for recreational vehicles. The composites in general, offer many advantages over traditional materials: important among these are high strength to weight ratio, light weight, flexible design, parts consolidation, dimensional stability, corrosion resistance and low tooling costs. Since the composites are anisotropic in nature, machining them is a complex process especially with reference to drilling and milling. Therefore, during the dry drilling operation on composites, drilling induced damage drastically affects the performance of the drill tool. So, the present investigation is an attempt to study the effect of the drill process parameters like the spindle speed (1000,”

Keywords: polymer composites, design of experiments, tool wear, analysis of variance.