Importance of Casting Soundness in Aluminium Parts for Laser Weld Quality Mahindra Research Valley

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Umasankar, Maiyarasan, author.

Contributor:

Gopalan, Vijaysankar

Venugopal, Sivakumar

Conference Name:

Symposium on International Automotive Technology (2024-01-23 : Pune, India)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2024

Summary:

Light weight and Robust manufacturing technologies are always needed for transformation drive in the Automotive industry for the next-generation vehicles with greater Power to weight ratio. Innovations and process developments in materials and manufacturing processes are key to this light weighting transformation. Aluminium material has been widely used for these light weighting opportunities. However, aluminum joining techniques, characterized by their poor quality and consistency are limiting this transformation. This technical paper represents one of such case, where the part is made up of Aluminium through conventional casting route which has affected the laser weld quality due to poor casting soundness. This experiment explains in detail about the importance of Casting soundness for laser weld quality, weld penetration, strength et cetera, and the Product consistency. Casting soundness improvement explored with the support of Ingot quality, Die design, Gating design and Size, Overflow designs, Air vent provisions, Vacuum system et cetera, through Simulation and Developments. This technical paper will support for knowledge enhancement on casting soundness and process robustness importance towards weld quality

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Publisher Number:

2024-26-0191

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