Industrial lasers are used to process engineering plastics across many markets. Some examples of the common processes are shown in Figure 1, including laser marking, cutting, and welding.

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

Laboratory of Welding Technology and Laser Processing, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland. Remote laser welding (RLW), a non-contact ...

While lasers have been used in welding for many years, this is still an active area of technological development. In particular, improvements in traditional welding lasers, together with the ...

Like any good metal fabricator, Scott Hartrick is always looking for a better way to do something. As president of Dynamic Metal Innovations (DMI), a 17-person shop in Emmaus, Pa., Hartrick not only ...

The present study is concerned with laser beam welding and its effect on size and microstructure of fusion zone then, on mechanical and corrosion properties of duplex stainless steel welded joints. In ...

Laser welding causes vaporization and pooling of two identical materials along a joint, which forms a bond. Surgical case and tray designs demand light weight with strength and precision with quick ...

1 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China 2 College of Mechanical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China 4) weakened reinforcement effect of SiC ...