Recent trend in reduction of cost, durability, reliability, and less weight with excellent mechanical properties and resistance to corrosion, composites find a huge application in all fields of engineering and are greatly used in day to day life in many fields. Properties like high specific weight, stiffness etc. made everyone to look for replacing the conventional metals and alloys with composites. In order to use them effectively according to our required size and shape machining is necessary, but during machining an appreciable amount of heat is generated and this affects the structural properties of composites. The present paper aimed at presenting the past work done in this area. © 2006-2016 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN). All rights reserved.