• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.58-67
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• 2003

In this study, the formation mechanism of discontinuities in the laser fusion zone of diamond saw blade was investigated. $CO_2$ laser weldings were conducted along the butt between Fe base sintered tip and carbon steel shank with sets of variable welding parameters. The effect of heat input on irregular humps, outer cavity, inner cavity and bond strengh was evaluated. The optimum heat input to have a proper humps was in the range of 10.4~$17.6kJm_{-1}$. With increasing heat input, both outer and inner cavities were reduced. The outer cavity was caused by insufficient refill of keyhole, while inner cavity was caused by trapping of bubble in molten metal. The bubble came from sintered tip and intensive vaporization at bottom tip of the keyhole. A gas formation and low melting point element vaporization were not occurred during welding. We could not find any relationship between bond strength and amount of discontinuities. Because the fracture were occurred in not only sintered tip but also carbon steel shank due to hardness distributions.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.109-109
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• 2009

최근 유럽의 완성차 업체에서 조립라인에 적용을 시작하고 있는 레이저 원격 용접기술은 저항 점용접에서의 문제점들을 동시에 해결하고 작업 시간을 획기적으로 감소시켜 생산성을 향상시킬 수 있는 용접공정으로 떠오르고 있다. 레이저 원격 용접기술은 레이저 빔을 용접부의 원거리에서 조사하여 용접하는 기술로서 레이저의 초점거리와 갈바노미터의 고속 이송를 이용한 최첨단 용접공정이다. 높은 생산성을 유지 하기 위하여 정확한 용접 컨트롤이 필요하지만, 레이저 용접의 경우 용접시 안전 문제로 육안으로 관찰하기가 힘들다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 모니터링이 필수적이다. 기존의 레이저 모니터링으로는 음향 센서를 이용하여 음향을 측정하는 방법이나 UV 센서, IR 센서 등의 빛을 이용한 방법이 많이 사용되어왔다. 하지만 이 방법들은 간접적인 방법들로 노이즈에 민감하고 또 설치가 까다로운 단점이 있었다. 본 연구에서는 CCD 카메라를 이용하여 시스템의 복잡함을 줄이고 더 정확하고 빠르게 용접 현상을 관찰하기 위하여 동축 모니터링 시스템을 이용하였으며, 이를 통해 Keyhole을 관찰하고 센서를 이용한 용접 변수(레이저 출력, 용접 속도 등)의 변화에 따른 용접 현상을 규명하였다.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.87-89
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• 2003

The yield strengths of austenitic stainless steel have been approximately doubled by increasing the nitrogen content. But, the increasing the nitrogen cause of increase the pressure of metal vapor inside the keyhole in electron beam welding. During welding, eruptions of keyhole often occur that cause excessive spatter, concavity, and porocity in the weld zone. Additionally the fast evaporation of nitrogen content cause of decrease the strength of weld zone. Therefore in this paper, we investigated of the weldability of electron beam welding and the change of chemical content after welding for strengthened austenitic stainless steel, measured the deformation scale of both of electron beam and narrow gap TIG and the spike fluctuation in the root.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.67-73
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• 2008

Three-dimensional transient simulation of laser-GMA hybrid welding involving multiple physical phenomena is conducted neglecting the interaction effect of laser and arc heat sources. To reproduce the bubble and pore formations in welding process, a new bubble model is suggested and added to the established laser and arc welding models comprehending VOF, Gaussian laser and arc heat source, recoil pressure, arc pressure, electromagnetic force, surface tension, multiple reflection and Fresnel reflection models. Based on the models mentioned above, simulations of laser-GMA hybrid butt welding are carried out and besides the molten pool flow, top and back bead formations could be observed. In addition, the laser induced keyhole formation and bubble generation duo to keyhole collapse are investigated. The bubbles are ejected from the molten pool through its top and bottom regions. However, some of those are entrapped by solid-liquid interface and remained as pores. Those bubbles and pores are intensively generated when the absorption of laser power is largely reduced and consequently the full penetration changes to the partial penetration.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.34-36
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• 1999

• Laser Solutions
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.33-42
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• 2002

In order to investigate the characteristics of the plasma induced by lap-joint CO$_2$ laser welding of automotive steel sheets, the effects of welding speed, shield gas flow rate, gap size, and laser beam defocus to plasma intensity emitted from keyhole have been investigated. The plasma light is measured by fiber and photodiode. Also, the plasma images were captured by the high speed digital camera in 1000frames/sec in order to correlate the plasma light signal with plasma pattern. From the results, it is observed that the difference of the plasma intensity for between the deep penetration and partial penetration exists from 1.2 to 2 times. The plasma light intensity decreased in case of the deep penetration Is observed due to the exhausting of the plasma gas under the sheet. On the other hand, under the conditions of the deep penetration, the plasma intensity is significantly increased by controling the conditions decreasing the penetration depth. It was specially founded that the effect of 0.3mm gap size at partial penetration condition is approximately similar to deep penetration in 0mm gap. It is concluded that the plasma intensity is able to evaluate the penetration depth in lap-joint welding and appears to offer the most straightforward correlation to the welding process.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.13-22
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• 2017

In laser full penetration welding process, full penetration hole(FPH) is formed as a result of force balance between the vapor pressure and the surface tension of the surrounding molten metal. In this work, a three-dimensional numerical model based on a conserved-mass level-set method is developed to simulate the transport phenomena during laser full penetration welding process, including full penetration keyhole dynamics. Ray trancing model is applied to simulate multi-reflection phenomena in the keyhole wall. The ghost fluid method and continuum method are used to deal with liquid/vapor interface and solid/liquid interface. The effects of processing parameters including laser power and scanning speed on the resultant full penetration hole diameter, laser energy distribution and energy absorption efficiency are studied. The model is validated against experimental results. The diameter of full penetration hole calculated by the simulation model agrees well with the coaxial images captured during laser welding of thin stainless steel plates. Numerical simulation results show that increase of laser power and decrease of welding speed can enlarge the full penetration hole, which decreases laser energy efficiency.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.813-824
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• 1988

Use of a plasma arc as the source of energy for penetration welding of thin plates gives rise to a cylindrical hole surrounded by the molten metal. Material moves from the front to the rear of the hole by flowing around the hole as the workpiece is translated relatively to the arc. Based on the finite difference method, three different computer models have been proposed for the steady state, two dimensional heat and mass flow during the plasma arc welding. In the formulation energy equation was derived by the energy blance method through the cell control volume, and all the governing equations derived for the fixed coordinates was translated for the moving coordinate system. The driving force for fluid flow being considered was only electromagnetic force. The calculated and measured molten poon and HAZ width were compared and better agreement was obtained for the models considering the keyhole effect.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.515-520
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• 2009

In this paper, the monitoring system was developed measuring the light signal emitted from the plasma in aluminum laser welding. Spectrum of plasma was measured using a spectrometer, and the photodiode was selected based on the spectrum analysis. The sensor signals for various welding conditions could be obtained, the characteristic of signal was closely related to the intensity and stability of plasma through mean value of signal and FFT analysis. The reason of signal fluctuation was behavior of plasma and keyhole and it was also connected with the surface bead shape of weld.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.94-96
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• 2005

Welding process of ultra thin stainless steel foil was investigated using a single mode Yb-fiber laser with a CW maximum output power 40W. In micro welding, critical power density for keyhole welding was 1 to 2 orders larger higher than in macro-welding due to larger thermal conduction, extremely high speed welding becomes possible.