Laser Surface Polishing of Ti6Al4V Titanium Alloy in Air, Nitrogen and Argon Environments

Pakin Jaritngam; Viboon Saetang; Chaiya Dumkum

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.897.15

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Laser Surface Polishing of Ti6Al4V Titanium Alloy in Air, Nitrogen and Argon Environments

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This paper presents the laser surface polishing of titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) by using a nanosecond pulse laser. Air, nitrogen and argon were employed as a shielding gas in this study, where the areal roughness (Sa) of laser-polished surface was measured and compared. The results showed that argon was the suitable assist gas for improving the metal surface without causing the oxidation. The effect of laser pulse repetition rate and scan speed on the surface roughness was also investigated in this study. The use of high repetition rate together with slow scan speed was able to reduce the surface roughness of titanium alloy. The roughness was found to be reduced by 47% when the pulse repetition rate of 500 kHz and scan speed of 50 mm/s were applied.

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Pakin Jaritngam*, Viboon Saetang, Chaiya Dumkum

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