Metallurgical investigations of pulsed Nd:YAG laser welding of AISI 321 and AISI 630 stainless steels

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 3150-3157

  Akbari Mousavi, S A A ^a   Sufizadeh, A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Metallography (G); Microstructure (F); Welding (D)

Indexed keywords

321 STAINLESS STEEL; AUSTENITIC; BEAM DIAMETERS; CIRCULAR GEOMETRY; DENDRITIC STRUCTURES; FERRITIC MICROSTRUCTURE; LASER POWER; MARTENSITIC MICROSTRUCTURE; MAXIMUM HARDNESS; METALLOGRAPHY (G); METALLURGICAL INVESTIGATION; MICROHARDNESS TESTS; MICROSTRUCTURE (F); PRECIPITATION-HARDENING STAINLESS STEEL; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSED ND:YAG LASER; WELD BEAD; WELD DEPTH; WELD METAL; WELD ZONE; WELDED JOINTS; WELDING (D);

AUSTENITE; AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL; CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS; DENDRIMERS; DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY); HARDNESS; INERT GAS WELDING; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER BEAM WELDING; LASER WELDING MACHINES; LASERS; METALLOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NEODYMIUM; NEODYMIUM LASERS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEEL; WELDED STEEL STRUCTURES; WELDS;

STEEL METALLURGY;

EID: 67349147648     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2008.11.026     Document Type: Article

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