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FEM NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THERMAL FIELD DISTRIBUTION AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL LASER WELDING OF THIN-WALLED ALUMINUM ALLOY PIPES

1 KURP Piotr
Co-authors:
1 BANAK Rafał 1 MULCZYK Krystian 2 ZRAK Andrej
Institutions:
1 Kielce University of Technology, Laser Processing Research Centre, Kielce, Poland, EU
2 University of Żilina, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Żilina, Slovak Republic, EU
Conference:
26th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, Hotel Voronez I, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, May 24th - 26th 2017
Proceedings:
Proceedings 26th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials
Pages:
894-899
ISBN:
978-80-87294-79-6
ISSN:
2694-9296
Published:
9th January 2018
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

This paper addresses the FEM numerical analysis of thermal field distribution in a thin-walled aluminum alloy pipe subjected to circumferential welding with a laser beam as a source of heat. The paper presents constitutive equations describing the studied phenomenon. Computation results were compared to the experimental welding results. Welding process was performed on the TRUMPF CO2 laser, model TruFlow6000. The temperature ahead of the moving laser beam front was measured by the optical pyrometer. Pyrometer indications confirm that there is a sufficient level of correspondence between the numerical analysis and the actual results.

Keywords: Laser welding, FEM analysis

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