Papers by Author: G. Basile

Abstract: Laser butt-welding of AA5083 has been investigated using a high quality CO2 laser in continuous wave regime. The effect of laser power, welding speed and specimen thickness on mechanical properties of the welded joints were evaluated by employing a general full factorial experimental plan design. The experimental results indicate important suggestion to choose proper combinations of process parameters and achieve high strength butt welded joints.

Abstract: Three blocks of silicon have been crashed in this experiment in order to verify the crashing effects on specimens having distinct original micro-structural arrangements. One of them comes from a rod bar of mono-crystal silicon, two others were from polycrystalline silicon manufactured by two distinct manufacturers with distinct growing process. Several specimens of powders, differing in type and grain size, were obtained by treating these source samples. This paper reports on data collected from synchrotron and conventional radiation and the results show that powders obtained from mono-crystalline silicon provide diffraction profiles, where the structural contribution is smaller than for polycrystalline silicon specimens. The peaks from the 'mono-crystal powder' resulted even narrower than peaks from SRM Silicon 640b by NIST.