In this paper the joinability of titanium Additive Manufactured (AM) parts is explored. Keyhole welding, using a pulsed laser beam, of conventionally produced parts is compared to AM parts. Metal AM parts are notorious for having remaining porosities and other non-isotropic properties due to the layered manufacturing process. This study shows that due to these deficiencies more energy per unit ...

Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding, also called as gas tungsten welding 1. (a) Schematic of TIG welding Process (b) Variety of tungsten electrodes. The activated TIG (ATIG) welding process mainly focuses on increasing the depth of penetration and the reduction in the width of weld bead has not been paid. Tungsten inert gas welding, TIG is widely applied in manufacturing process for different The ...

Within the scope of increase in cutting tools efficiency, a CW CO;! laser beam has been used for butt welding sintered tips containing cobalt and tungsten carbide to a medium carbon steel core. After optimization of the laser processing conditions, full penetrating, sound and homogeneous welds are observed. Hardness is found to be nearly constant across the entire weld bead cross-section. Micro...

Optical sensors are increasingly applied in laser material processing to monitor and control the lasermaterial interaction zone. Dynamic models, relating the sensor signals (e.g. as temperature or molten area) to the process inputs (e.g. laser power or beam velocity), provide the basis for the design and tuning of a feedback controller. These models can show nonminimum phase (NMP) behavior. Thi...

The feasibility of using laser–cold metal transfer (CMT) misaligned hybrid welding to join an X80 line-pipe steel in a narrow gap configuration was investigated. laser beam interacted with the sidewall and its bottom at small angle, while CMT arc acted on backside beam. influence distance parameter between spot tip wire formation defects filled weld were Narrow bevel welds performed, joints ten...

In order to automatically evaluate the welding quality during high-power disk laser welding, a real-time monitoring system was developed. The images of laser-induced metal vapor during welding were captured and fifteen features were extracted. A feature selection method based on a sequential forward floating selection algorithm was employed to identify the optimal feature subset, and a support ...