Predicting the laser weldability of dissimilar polymers

Polymer

Volumn 54, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3891-3897

  Juhl, Thomas Brokholm ^a   Bach, Daniela ^b   Larson, Ronald G ^c   Christiansen, Jesper Declaville ^a   Jensen, Erik Appel ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b FORCE TECHNOLOGY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser welding; Solubility parameter; Weldability

Indexed keywords

CARBON BLACK; LASER BEAM WELDING; SOLUBILITY; WELDABILITY; WELDS;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HANSEN SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; HILDEBRAND SOLUBILITY; IMMISCIBLE POLYMER; LASER WELDABILITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOLUBILITY PARAMETERS; THROUGH TRANSMISSION LASER WELDING;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84879605297     PISSN: 00323861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2013.05.053     Document Type: Article

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