Laser cutting of metallic coated sheet steels

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 74, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 234-242

  Prasad, G V S ^a   Siores, E ^a   Wong, W C K ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Laser centre; Metallic coated sheet steels; Process parameters

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COATED STEEL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALVANIZED METAL; LASER BEAM CUTTING; MACHINING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

METALLIC COATED SHEET STEELS;

STEEL SHEET;

EID: 0031996487     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(97)00276-8     Document Type: Article

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