• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.23 no.7 s.184
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• pp.39-50
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• 2006

Laser heat treatment technologies have been used to improve characteristics of wear and to enhance the fatigue resistance for automotive parts. The bjective of this research work is to investigate the influence of the process parameters, such as power of laser and defocused spot position, on the characteristics of laser heat treatment for the case of SM45C medium carbon steel. CW Nd:YAG laser is selected as the heat source. The optical lens with the elliptical profile is designed to obtain a wide heat treatment area with a uniform hardness. From the results of the experiments, it has been shown that the maximum hardness is approximatly 780 Hv when the power and the travel of laser are 1,095 W and 0.6 m/min, respectively. In addition, the hardening width using the elliptical lens was three time larger than that using the defocusing of laser beam.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.53-62
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• 1987

High power lasers provide a controllable and precise energy source in surface transformation hardening. A careful control of the process is needed in order that the surface layer of the material reaches the austenizing temperature, but that it does not melt. In order to achieve this the results of theoretical and experimental studies on the laser surface hardening of a medium carbon steel are described. A two-dimensional computer program, which can be used generally for the determination of transient temperature distributions in welding and heat treatment, was established on the basis of the finite element method. For the confirmation of the accuracy of the numerical analysis, a medium carbon steel (SM 45C) of 5mm thickness was heat-treated with a 1kW CW CO$_{2}$ laser machine, while the traverse speed and the distance from the focal point (defocused distance) were varied. Experimental and numerical results showed a similar tendency in correlations between the hardened zone shape and the process parameters. With increasing beam spot diameter the width and depth of the hardened zone increased for relatively small beam spot diameters, but decreased rapidly after reaching the maximum value, while with increasing traverse speed the width and depth of the hardened zone decreased monotonously. Too small beam spot diameters are to be avoided, since the surface melting would lower the surface hardness and produce an uneven surface which may be unacceptable because of the possible requirement for subsequent machining. It could be observed that for a given traverse speed and laser power input there exists a optimal range of the beam spot diameter, which produce a large width of the hardened zone but no melting on the surface.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1542-1547
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• 2007

Laser surface treatment technologies have been used to improve characteristics of wear and to enhance the fatigue resistance for mold parts. The optical lens with the elliptical profile is designed to obtain a wide surface hardening area with a uniform hardness. The objective of this research work is to investigate the influence of the process parameters, such as power of laser and defocused spot position, on the characteristics of laser surface treatment for the case of SKD61 steel and SCM4 steel. From the results of the experiments, it has been shown that the maximum average hardness is approximatly 700${\sim}$780 Hv when the power, focal position and the travel of laser are 1,095 W, 0mm and 0.3 m/min, respectively. In samples treated with lower scanning speeds, some small carbide particles appear in the interdendritic regions. This region contains fine martensite and carbide in proportions which depend on the local thermal cycle.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.177-186
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• 1996

Surface alloying of Ti alloy by $CO_2$ laser is able to produce few hundred micrometers thick TiN or TiC surface-alloyed layer with high hardness on the substrate by injecting reaction gas($N_2$ or $CH_4$). Laser surface alloying by means of process control is in many applications essential in order to obtain predictable hardening layer. This research has been investigated the effect of such parameters on TiN and TiC gas alloying of Ti-6Al-4V alloy by $CO_2$ laser. The maximum surface hardness of TiN layer was obtained 1750Hv on the conditions of 0.8kW laser power, 0.8m/min scanning speed and 100% $N_2$ atmosphere. However, the maximum hardness of TiC formation layer after laser treatment was about 630Hv. As scanning speed was increased, the hardness and depth of these layers were decreased at constant laser power.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.53-60
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• 2015

Laser surface Melting Process is getting hardening layer that has enough depth of hardening layer as well as no defects by melting surface of substrate. This study used CW(Continuous Wave) Yb:YAG and STD11. Laser beam speed, power and beam interval are fixed at 70mm/sec, 2.8kW and 800um respectively. Hardness in the weld zone are equal to 400Hv regardless of melting zone, remelting zone overlapped by next beam and HAZ. Similarly, microstructures in all weld zone consist of dendrite structure that arm spacing is $3{\sim}4{\mu}m$, matrix is ${\gamma}$(Austenite) and dendrite boundary consists of ${\gamma}$ and $M_7C_3$ of eutectic phase. This microstructure crystallizes from liquid to ${\gamma}$ of primary crystal and residual liquid forms ${\gamma}$ and $M_7C_3$ of eutectic phase by eutectic reaction at $1266^{\circ}C$. After solidification is complete, primary crystal and eutectic phase remain at room temperature without phase transformation by quenching. On the other hand, microstructures of substrate consist of ferrite, fine $M_{23}C_6$ and coarse $M_7C_3$ that have 210Hv. Microstructures in the HAZ consist of fine $M_{23}C_6$ and coarse $M_7C_3$ like substrate. But, $M_{23}C_6$ increases and matrix was changed from ferrite to bainite that has hardness above 400Hv. Partial Melted Zone is formed between melting zone and HAZ. Partial Melted Zone near the melting zone consists of ${\gamma}$, $M_7C_3$ and martensite and Partial Melted Zone near the HAZ consists of eutectic phase around ${\gamma}$ and $M_7C_3$. Hardness is maximum 557Hv in the partial melted zone.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.95-95
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• 2010

자동차 산업에서 차체를 성형하는 프레스 금형 산업은 꾸준히 증가하고 있는 자동차 생산대수와 함께 성장해가고 있으며, 자동차 산업의 국제 경쟁이 심해지고 소비자들의 요구가 다양해짐에 따라 신제품 개발주기에 발맞추어 금형의 제작에도 단납기 및 비용절감을 위한 노력과 제품의 품질 향상을 위해 신기술, 신공법이 적용되고 있다. 한편 자동차 차체를 제작하는 프레스 금형가공은 박판소재를 원하는 형상으로 제작하는 공정으로써, 프레스의 상 하 운동을 이용하여 강판을 성형한다. 이러한 금형의 형태는 곧 자동차 차체 제품의 형태를 완성하므로 제품을 성형하는 도중에 금형과 소재의 마찰에 의해 금형의 마모나 마멸이 발생하여 제품의 품질을 저하시킬 우려가 있다. 따라서 금형의 내마모성 및 수명을 향상시키기 위한 방안들 중 표면경화처리가 행해지고 있으며, 그중 공정 속도가 빠르고 국부적인 열처리가 가능한 레이저 표면처리 방법이 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 금형의 성질을 향상시키기 위해 고출력 다이오드 레이저를 이용하여 프레스 금형공정 중 드로잉(drawing) 공정에의 적용을 위한 표면경화처리를 실시하였다. 최대출력 4.0kW의 다이오드 레이저를 사용하였으며, 6축 외팔보 로봇에 열처리용 광학계를 장착하여 열처리를 실시하였다. 또한 광학계 부근에는 적외선 온도센서가 부착되어있어 열처리시 시험편의 표면온도를 실시간으로 측정할 수 있도록 구성되어져있다. 시험편은 금형재료용 구상흑연 주철인 FCD550 소재를 사용하였으며, 공정변수에 따른 열처리 특성을 파악하고, 그 경화특성을 평가하였다. 실험 결과, FCD550 소재의 표면 열처리시 레이저 출력 3.5kW, 빔 이송속도 3mm/sec에서 최적의 열처리 특성을 나타내었으며, 이때의 최고 경도는 930Hv을 나타내며 모재에 비해 경도가 3배 정도 상승하는 우수한 경화특성을 보였다.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.113-119
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• 2022

In order to improve the mechanical reliability of next-generation electronic devices including flexible, wearable devices, a high level of mechanical reliability is required at various flexible joints. Organic adhesive materials such as epoxy for bonding existing polymer substrates inevitably have an increase in the thickness of the joint and involve problems of thermodynamic damage due to repeated deformation and high temperature hardening. Therefore, it is required to develop a low-temperature bonding process to minimize the thickness of the joint and prevent thermal damage for flexible bonding. This study developed flexible laser transmission welding (f-LTW) that allows bonding of flexible substrates with flexibility, robustness, and low thermal damage. Carbon nanotube (CNT) is thin-film coated on a flexible substrate to reduce the thickness of the joint, and a local melt bonding process on the surface of a polymer substrate by heating a CNT dispersion beam laser has been developed. The laser process conditions were constructed to minimize the thermal damage of the substrate and the mechanism of forming a CNT junction with the polymer substrate. In addition, lap shear adhesion test, peel test, and repeated bending experiment were conducted to evaluate the strength and flexibility of the flexible bonding joint.