Comparison of dry and wet fibre laser profile cutting of thin 316L stainless steel tubes for medical device applications

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 210, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2261-2267

  Muhammad, N ^a   Whitehead, D ^a   Boor, A ^b   Li, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Principality of Liechtenstein   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dross; Laser cutting; Precision; Stent; Water

Indexed keywords

316 L STAINLESS STEEL TUBES; CORONARY STENTS; DROSS; DRY AND WET; DRY CUTTING; EXISTING METHOD; FIBRE LASERS; HIGH PRECISION; KERF WIDTH; LASER CUTTING; MEDICAL DEVICES; METALLIC MATERIAL; ND : YAG LASERS; POST PROCESSING; PRECISION; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES; STAINLESS STEEL TUBE; STENT; STENT CUTTING; WALL IMPINGEMENT; WALL THICKNESS; WATER FLOWS; WET AND DRY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CORROSION RESISTANT ALLOYS; CUTTING; FIBER LASERS; FLOW OF WATER; HEAT AFFECTED ZONE; HYDRAULICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PULSED LASERS; STEEL METALLOGRAPHY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TUBULAR STEEL STRUCTURES;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 77957655106     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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