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A Study on T-Joint Welding by High Power Fiber Laser of SAPH Steel Plate for Automobile  

Oh, Yong-Seok (Department of Advanced Parts and Materials Engineering, Chosun University)
Yoo, Young-Tae (Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Chosun University)
Shin, Ho-Jun (Department of Precision Mechanical Engineering, Chosun University)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers / v.17, no.3, 2009 , pp. 35-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to describe experimental results about the T-joint welding of the high power continuous wave (CW) fiber laser for SAPH steel plate for seat frame of car. The seat rail is a part of seat frame of cars. The assembling method is mostly fix up using a bolt and nut. But this assembling method has many demerits in productivity such as increasing work process and material cost. This paper presents an experimental study about Laser T-Joint weldability of seat rail. Laser welding has many advantages in lightness and saving material costs of seat frame. The laser beam was moved along the work pieces by six axis robot with process optical fiber. The laser beam is focused with a welding head within incident angle $15{\sim}45^{\circ}$ for the purpose of the T-joint welding through two side full penetration. The range of the root gap size is less than ${\leq}0.4mm$. Optical microscopy SEM were performed to observe the micro structures and determine the structures of welded zone.
Keywords
Fiber laser; Laser welding; T-Joint welding; Seat frame; Seat rail; Gap size;
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