Thermal Influencing Distribution of Sheet Metal during the Process of Laser Forming

Author

Zhang, Peng ; Chu, Guan-Nan

Author_Institution

Sch. of Mater. Sci. & Eng., Harbin Inst. of Technol. at Weihai, Weihai, China

fYear

2010

fDate

19-21 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Laser forming is a new type of sheet metal forming process. The sheet metal is formed by asymmetrical thermal stresses. The stresses are induced by the temperature grads of heat-affected-zone when a scanning laser beam goes along the sheet. The distribution of heat-affected-zone was analyzed through finite element simulation. And the effects of laser power, facula diameter, scanning velocity and scanning path on the heat-affected-zone also were investigated.

Keywords

finite element analysis; forming processes; laser materials processing; sheet metal processing; thermal stresses; asymmetrical thermal stresses; facula diameter; finite element simulation; heat-affected-zone distribution; laser forming; scanning laser beam; scanning path; scanning velocity; sheet metal forming process; temperature grads; thermal influencing distribution; Finite element methods; Laser beams; Laser noise; Laser theory; Laser transitions; Optical materials; Power lasers; Sheet materials; Temperature distribution; Thermal stresses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photonics and Optoelectronic (SOPO), 2010 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4963-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4964-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOPO.2010.5504271

Filename

5504271