scholarly journals A Study of High-Power CO2 Laser Welding Process. Laser Welding Properties of Laser-cut Surface Joints.

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-229
Author(s):  
Seiichiro KIMURA ◽  
Yoshinobu MAKINO ◽  
Masayuki IKEDA
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
Co2 Laser ◽  
High Power ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Welding Properties ◽  
Cut Surface ◽  
Laser Welding Process

Segmentation of Molten Pool Infrared Images Using Morphology during High Power Disk Laser Welding

2012 ◽  
Vol 201-202 ◽  
pp. 91-94
Author(s):  
Yan Xi Zhang ◽  
Xiang Dong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
High Power ◽  
Molten Pool ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Histogram Equalization ◽  
Welding Quality ◽  
Infrared Images ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Disk Laser ◽  
Laser Welding Process

Configuration of a molten pool is related to the laser welding quality. Analyzing the configuration of a molten pool is important to monitor the laser welding process. This paper proposes a method of segmentation of a molten pool and its shadow during high power disk laser welding, consequently provides the groundwork for reconstruction of the molten pool and analysis of welding quality. Subsection linear stretching histogram equalization was applied to enhance the contrast of the original images firstly, and then edge detection was used to highlight the edges. After that we used the morphology filtering method to produce the segmentation mask, and then combined the mask with the original images to get the final segmentation results. Also, the proposed method was compared with other traditional methods. The experimental results showed that our method not only could give better segmentation results and process large quantities images automatically, but also overcame the less-segmentation problems of traditional methods.

Welding characteristics of S45C medium carbon steel in laser welding process using a high power CW Nd:YAG laser

2004 ◽  
Vol 39 (19) ◽  
pp. 6117-6119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Tae Yoo ◽  
Dong-Gyu Ahn ◽  
Kung-Bo Ro ◽  
Seong-Wook Song ◽  
Ho-Jun Shin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Steel ◽  
Laser Welding ◽  
High Power ◽  
Nd:Yag Laser ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Medium Carbon Steel ◽  
Medium Carbon ◽  
Laser Welding Process

Study of Plume Behavior during High-Power Disk Laser Welding

2012 ◽  
Vol 201-202 ◽  
pp. 1076-1079
Author(s):  
De Yong You ◽  
Xiang Dong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
High Power ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Image Sequences ◽  
Process Conditions ◽  
High Speed Photography ◽  
Disk Laser ◽  
Industrial Manufacturing ◽  
Laser Welding Process

Laser welding process has been widely used in industrial manufacturing. The purpose of this paper is to explore the inter-relation between laser welding results and the laser-induced plume behavior. High-power disk laser welding of stainless steel type304 was performed at different welding speeds. Combing the high speed camera and ultraviolet sensing filter, the plume image sequences of laser welding process have been obtained. Plume features including plume volume and plume flowing direction have been extracted by using high-speed photography and image processing technology. The dynamic behavior of laser-induced plume was investigated. The results showed that the laser-induced plume feature, especially the plume volume, was closely related to laser welding process conditions.

Development of high power laser welding process for pipe

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomotaka Hayashi ◽  
Yoji Inaba ◽  
Yosiyuki Matuhiro ◽  
Tateo Yamada ◽  
Takeo Kudo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
High Power ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
High Power Laser ◽  
Power Laser ◽  
Laser Welding Process

Extraction of Weld Pool Width Feature Based on Visual Sensing during High-Power Fiber Laser Welding

2012 ◽  
Vol 201-202 ◽  
pp. 388-391
Author(s):  
Zi Qin Chen ◽  
Xiang Dong Gao
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
Fiber Laser ◽  
Weld Pool ◽  
High Power ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
304 Stainless Steel ◽  
Fiber Laser Welding ◽  
Weld Pool Width ◽  
Laser Welding Process

In a high-power fiber laser welding process, the thermal radiation of a weld pool contains plenty of information for welding quality, in which the pool width can reflect the welding stability. Thus, extracting the welding pool width of high-power fiber laser welding based on infrared thermal imaging is an important method for monitoring the weld seam quality. In this paper, we studied the 304 stainless steel welded by a 10kW high-power fiber laser continuously. A near-infrared high-speed sensing camera was used to capture the weld pool images. Image algorithms such as median filtering, gray scale stretching, cutting, dynamic threshold mathematical morphology were applied to extract the weld pool image edge, analyze and detect the weld pool width. Welding experimental results showed that the proposed methods could extract the weld pool width, which could reflect the stability status of high-power fiber laser welding process accurately.

The characteristics of high power fibre laser welding

2010 ◽  
Vol 224 (5) ◽  
pp. 1019-1029 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Salminen ◽  
H Piili ◽  
T Purtonen
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
High Power ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Beam Quality ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Density ◽  
Fibre Laser ◽  
Line Energy ◽  
Laser Welding Process

Laser welding has an ever growing role in manufacturing technology. Keyhole laser welding is the most important laser welding process in metal industry when exceeding the 1 mm weld penetration. This process uses efficiently the high energy density of a laser beam to vaporize and melt materials, thus producing a keyhole in the material via which the energy is brought to it. The requirements from customer side and the development of new materials have been giving justification for the development of new laser types suitable for material processing with ever higher power values. In contrast, the development of laser technologies has made it possible to build more powerful lasers with excellent beam properties and good electrical efficiency. New laser sources with good absorption and beam quality make the laser welding even more efficient when throughput and efficiency are considered. They show their ability to produce narrower welds with lower line energy. However, the validation of actual keyhole shape, size, and behaviour against the models is still lacking because of the difficulties in performing the measurements of the actual dimensions. It has been shown that the better the beam quality the higher the welding speed. When welding with high power, good beam quality, and wavelength close to 1000 nm, there are some obstacles to overcome, which are caused by high absorption and power density. Typically, problems, such as thermal lensing, can be avoided with proper parameter and tool selection. Typically, the size of the keyhole is according to the focal point size, and the stability of the keyhole plays a major role when considering the ability of the laser welding process to produce high quality welds.

Development of high power CO2 laser welding process

2001 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 363-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Tsukamoto ◽  
I. Kawaguchi ◽  
G. Arakane ◽  
H. Honda
Keyword(s):  
Laser Welding ◽  
High Power ◽  
Welding Process ◽  
Laser Welding Process
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