A new heat source model for keyhole plasma arc welding in FEM analysis of the temperature profile

Welding Journal (Miami, Fla)

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Wu, C S ^a   Wang, H G ^a   Zhang, Y M ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Center for Manufacturing   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Heat transfer; Keyhole welding; Plasma arc welding; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

KEYHOLE PLASMA; PLASMA JET; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VOLUMETRIC DISTRIBUTION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HEAT TRANSFER; MELTING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; THERMOANALYSIS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

PLASMA WELDING;

EID: 33845592775     PISSN: 00432296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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