Repair welding (RW) with wire cladding is a common procedure to extend the in-service life of heavily loaded tool parts for die and mould industries 1-5 . The main advantages of repair welding are short downtime and cost efficiency compared to production of new tool part. Repair welding in general lowers the tool cost in the final part and enables higher added value to the die casting and injec...

This paper gives an overview on the potentials of numerical simulations for understanding dynamics in laser material processing. After a short introduction into the model, simulation results on several processes like laser beam deep penetration welding, drilling or cutting are presented. Furthermore simulation results are compared with experimentally obtained data.

We present a human-robot-cooperation welding system, consisting of several phases including a coarse acquisition of the work piece geometry, interactive fine-scanning of welding seam regions and automated optimizing path planning after task specification by the user. The coarse geometry acquisition component is explained in detail showing the feasible application of a novel and cheap 3D-Sensor ...

A current trend in the automotive industry is the application of joining techniques that contribute to lighter car bodies with higher stiffness, increasing at the same time the efficiency of the manufacturing process. An emerging technology is remote laser welding (RLW). It joins metal sheets by a laser beam, projected from a scanner mounted on an industrial robot. This enables contactless weld...

INTRODUCTION The first aim of this "ex vivo split mouth" study was to compare the thermal elevation during the welding process of titanium bars to titanium implants inserted in pig jaws by a thermal camera and two thermocouples. The second aim was to compare the strength of the joints by a traction test with a dynamometer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Six pigs' jaws were used and three implants were...

Recently friction stir welding for manufacturing of welded tubes has been developed. Friction stir welding is a continuous solid state welding process in which a non-consumable rotating tool using severe plastic deformation Can join materials can be join materials. Commonly, a portion of a specially shaped rotating tool is plunged between metalsjoint cross section and adjacent faces of the join...

To satisfy the need of polymer connection in lightweight automobiles, a study on laser transmission spot welding using polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) is conducted by using an Nd:YAG pulse laser. The influence of three variables, namely peak voltages, defocusing distances and the welding type (type I (pulse frequency and the duration is 25 Hz, 0.6 s) and type II (pulse frequency and the duration...

A Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller(CMAC-) based modelling method and closed-loop control system were developed to estimate and control the weld fusion for measuring the topside and backside bead widths of the weld pool in High Power Direct Diode Laser (HPDDL) welding. Because of the difficulty in using backside sensor, a topside weld pool geometry is measured using a topside vision sens...