• Title/Summary/Keyword: Hybrid laser welding

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Effect of Welding Speed on Mechanical Properties and Formability in Nd:YAG Laser Welds of 1000MPa Grade DP Steel (1000MPa급 DP강의 Nd:YAG 레이저 용접부의 기계적 성질과 성형성에 미치는 용접 속도의 영향)

  • Jang, Jin-Young;Choi, Woo-Nam;Jung, Byung-Hun;Kang, Chung-Yun
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2009
  • The effects of welding speed were investigated on penetration characteristics, defects and mechanical properties including formability test in Nd:YAG laser welded 1000MPa grade DP steels. A shielding gas was not used and bead-on-plate welding was performed with various welding speeds at 3.5kW laser power. Defects of surface and inner beads were not observed in all welding speeds. As the welding speed increased, the weld cross-section varied from the trapezoid having wider bottom bead, through X type, finally to V type in partial penetration range of welding speeds. The characteristic of hardness distribution was also investigated. The center of HAZ had maximum hardness, followed by a slight decrease of hardness as approaching to FZ. Significant softening occurred at the HAZ near BM. Regardless of the welding speed, the weld showed approximately the same hardness distribution. In the perpendicular tensile test with respect to the weld direction, all specimens were fractured at the softening zone. In the parallel tensile test to the weld direction, the first crack occurred at weld center and then propagated into the weld. Good formability over 80% was taken for all welding conditions.

Process Development for Automotive Hybrid Hood using Magnesium Alloy AZ31B Sheet (마그네슘 합금 AZ31B 판재를 이용한 자동차 하이브리드 후드 개발 프로세스)

  • Jang, D.H.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.160-166
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    • 2011
  • Weight reduction while maintaining functional requirements is one of the major goals in the automotive industry. The use of lightweight magnesium alloys offers great potential for reducing weight because of the low density of these alloys. However, the formability and the surface quality of the final magnesium alloy product for auto-body structures are not acceptable without a careful optimization of the design parameters. In order to overcome some of the main formability limitations in the stamping of magnesium alloys, a new approach, the so-called "hybrid technology", has been recently proposed for body-in-white structural components. Within this approach, necessary level of mechanical joining can be obtained through the use of lightweight material-steel adhesion promoters. This paper presents the development process of an automotive hybrid hood assembly using magnesium alloy sheets. In the first set of material pairs, the selected materials are magnesium alloy AZ31B alloy and steel(SGCEN) as inner and outer panels, respectively. In order to optimize the design of the inner panel, the stamping process was analyzed with the finite element method (FEM). Laser welding by CW Nd:YAG were used to join the magnesium alloy sheets. Based on the simulation results and mechanical test results of the joints, the determination of die design variables and their influence on formability were discussed. Furthermore, a prototype based on the proposed design was manufactured and the static stiffness test was carried out. The results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed hybrid hood with a weight reduction of 25.7%.

Laser Hybrid Welding and Laser Brazing Technology (레이저 하이브리드 용접과 레이저 브레이징 기술)

  • 김종도;김유찬
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.691-698
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    • 2004
  • 레이저빔과 아크를 하나의 용접 프로세스로 병합하는 기술에 관해서는 이미 70년대부터 알려져 왔으나 별다른 개발로 이어지지 못하다가 최근에서야 다시 눈을 돌리게 되었다. 이 기술의 핵심과제는 아크의 장점과 레이저의 장점을 어떻게 단일 혼합 프로세스로 조합하느냐 하는 것이다. 과거 레이저빔을 처음 사용할 때 만해도 산업용으로서 적합성을 증명해야 했으나 지금은 이미 자동차 산업에서 재래기술로 치부되고 있다.(중략)

Recent Study of Technical Development for High Efficient Brazing (최신의 고능률 브레이징 기술개발 동향)

  • Yoo, Ho-Cheon
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.36-45
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    • 2016
  • Recent developing tendency for technologies of high efficient brazing are studied by searching of NDSL, Science Direct, KIPRIS, PCT and so on. Active metal brazing, arc brazing, fluxless brazing, brazing with low melting point, reactive air brazing, laser brazing, laser droplet brazing are investigated. By optimal selecting of the above mentioned technologies, it needs to investigate an economical metallurgical design and the advanced brazing methods. To improve the embrittlement of intermetallic compound at brazing interface, it must be studied the inexpensive variant metals including nonmetals and the heat sources(MIG, TIG, Laser) by hybrid techniques.