Modeling of laser transmission contour welding process using FEA and DoE

Optics and Laser Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1281-1289

  Acherjee, Bappa ^a   Kuar, Arunanshu S ^a   Mitra, Souren ^a   Misra, Dipten ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Finite element analysis; Laser transmission welding

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING POLYMERS; BEAM DIAMETERS; CARBON BLACK CONTENTS; COMBINED CONVECTION RADIATIONS; COMMERCIAL FINITE ELEMENT CODES; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; GAUSSIANS; HEAT SOURCES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; KEY PROCESS; LASER TRANSMISSION; LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; MOVING HEAT SOURCES; MULTI-PHYSICS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS; THERMAL MODEL; WELD DEPTH; WELDING PROCESS; WELDING SPEED;

CARBON BLACK; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ELECTRIC WELDING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYMERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WELDS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84857044511     PISSN: 00303992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2011.12.049     Document Type: Article

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