Papers by Keyword: HAZ Width

Abstract: Copper is one of the best light metal based on their properties and usefulness in the field of precision parts.Emergence of advanced engineering materials, unusual size and intricate shape of jobleads towards the use of non-conventional machining processes. Laser beam machining (LBM) is one of them which is non-contact and optical-thermal process used for machining almost all range of engineering materials. Artificial neural network is used to develop a prediction model representing complex relationship between the input (process) parameters and output parameters (responses). In this present paper, micro-drilling has been performed on 0.2 mm thickcopper sheet by Nd:YVO₄ laser of 12 kW. Design of experiment is performed by Taguchi's L9 orthogonal array. Here, hole taper and HAZ width have been observed varying the process parameters like laser beam power, pulse frequency, scanning speed and number of pass. Experimental results are analyzed by S/N ratio and verified by confirmation experiment. A feed forward back propagation ANN model is also developed to predict the responses at any combination of process parameters within the limit.

Abstract: The determination of the temperature distribution of submerged arc-welded plates is essential when designing submerged arc-welded joints. The key role for the change of weld-bead geometry dimension, thermal stress, residual stress, tensile stress, hardness, etc., is heat input. Heat input is the function of temperature distribution of submerged arc welded plates. An attempt is made in this paper to find the analytical solution for a moving heat-source of egg-shape in a semi-infinite body. The considered modes of heat transfer for this study are conduction and convection. The solution has been obtained by integrating the instantaneous point heat source throughout the heat source volume. Very good agreement between the predicted and measured transient temperatures at various points on submerged arc-welded plates has been obtained. The predicted yield parameters are also in good agreement with the measured values.