Laser Welding: An Exploratory Study towards Continuous Improvement on Stainless Steel Welding Joints Delphi Automotive Systems

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Júnior, Joel da Conceição, author.

Conference Name:

SAE Brasil 2009 Congress and Exhibit (2009-10-06 : Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2009

Summary:

The utilization of Laser welding process has increased during last years in several areas of industry, due to many benefits that can be achieved with this technology, such as: flexibility, productivity and quality. Thus, the optimization of Laser welding processes has been considered as a "green field" to be explored by Laser manufacturers, automation companies and process/project engineers. Nowadays there are few researches that provide a roadmap for Laser welding processes improvement that approaches both the aspects and characteristics applied to evaluate the Laser weld application performance. Therefore, this paper has per its main purpose through an exploratory study to provide parameters toward continuous improvement of Laser welding process considering both types of Lasers: Laser spot weld and Laser seam weld of stainless steel joints, thus this work may be considered as theoretical and practical reference to be applied by people involved with Laser welding applications. The method used on this research was based on technical literature review and case study with both types of Laser equipments mentioned above

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Publisher Number:

2009-36-0330

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Restricted for use by site license