Dual beam laser welding

Welding Journal (Miami, Fla)

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Xie, J ^a,b  

^a ST JUDE MEDICAL   (United States)

^b EDISON WELDING INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Beam splitting; Defect; Dual beam; Fluctuation; Keyhole instability; Laser welding; Steel; Vapor plume; Weld quality

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; HARDNESS; POROSITY; QUALITY CONTROL; STEEL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DUAL BEAM LASER WELDING; KEYHOLE INSTABILITY; LASER BEAM SPLITTING; WELD QUALITY;

LASER BEAM WELDING;

EID: 0036813122     PISSN: 00432296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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