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Hybrid laser-metal inert gas keyhole welding of thick steel/Al butt joints
摘要： Dissimilar joining of steel/Al joints has become more and more signi?cant in industrial applications with particular weight saving interest. However, directly welding of steel/Al joints even in thin thickness is very di?cult. In the present study, the hybrid laser-metal inert gas (MIG) source focused on the steel side in keyhole mode was introduced to weld steel/Al butt joints of 6 mm in thickness. E?ects of the laser o?sets on the weld shape, interface microstructures, and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of the steel/Al joints were investigated. Sound steel/Al butt joints were obtained by using this hybrid laser-MIG keyhole welding process. By increasing the laser o?sets from 0.6 and 0.8 mm, the welds exhibited a better shape with a smooth appearance attributable to the reduced heat input. The positions through the thickness of the steel/Al joints played an important role in the morphology and thickness of the intermetallic compound (IMC) layers at the Al/weld interface. The IMC layers had a thick irregular morphology at the upper part and the lower part, while the layers at the middle part exhibited a relatively thin and uniform morphology. With some certain welding conditions, the Al/weld interface at the lower part of the steel/Al joints transformed to a welding-brazing mode from a fusion one. The island-shape structures were formed at the Al/weld interface, and the IMC layers were composed of Fe2Al5 layer and needlelike Fe4Al13 phases. The maximum UTS of 87.0 MPa was obtained at a laser o?set of 0.6 mm. Although the failure occurred in the IMC layers revealed a brittle fracture, the fracture morphology and locations were a mixed failure, which had a certain resistance to the crack propagation of the IMC layers.
关键词： laser-metal inert gas welding,ultimate tensile strength,keyhole welding,intermetallic compound,steel/Al joints
更新于2025-11-28 14:24:20
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Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of Dissimilar Al/Steel Butt Joints Produced by Autogenous Laser Keyhole Welding
摘要： Dissimilar Al/steel butt joints of 6.0 mm thick plates have been achieved using fiber laser keyhole welding autogenously. The cross sections, interface microstructures, hardness and tensile properties of Al/steel butt joints obtained under different travel speeds and laser beam offsets were investigated. The phase morphology and thickness of the intermetallic compound (IMC) layers at the interface were analyzed by scanning electronic microscopes (SEM) using the energy-dispersive spectrometry (EDS) and electron back-scattered diffraction (EBSD) techniques. The results show that travel speeds and laser beam offsets are of considerable importance for the weld shape, morphology and thickness of IMC layers, and ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of Al/steel butt joints. This proves that the IMC layers consist of Fe2Al5 phases and Fe4Al13 phases by EBSD phase mapping. Increasing laser beam offsets from 0.3 mm to 0.7 mm significantly decreases the quantity of Fe4Al13 phases and the thickness of Fe2Al5 layers at the interface. During tensile processing, the Fe2Al5 layer with the weakest bonding strength is the most brittle region at the interface. However, an intergranular fracture that occurred at Fe2Al5 layers leads to a relatively high UTS of Al/steel butt joints.
关键词： laser keyhole welding,IMC layers,Al/steel joints,tensile properties,EBSD phase mapping
更新于2025-09-23 15:21:21
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Influence of Magnesium on Spatter Behavior in Laser Deep Penetration Welding of Aluminum Alloys
摘要： The quality of welds, as well as the necessity of post-processing, is challenged by spatter generation during the laser keyhole welding process. In this study, the influence of the magnesium content on spatter behavior is studied for three aluminum alloys (Al99.5, AlMg3, and AlMg5). A synchronized dual high-speed camera system is used to observe the spatter behavior and to reconstruct 3D spatter trajectories as well as determine the characteristics of spatter velocity, flight path angle, and approximate spatter size. The mean spatter velocities and flight path angles of the welding experiments with the three alloys were in welding direction between 4.1 m/s and 4.6 m/s and 44.8°, respectively. Furthermore, the AlMg alloys show excessive spatter behavior with spray events of more than 50 spatters at a time, and less frequently spatter explosions. Spatter spray events show a character similar to spatter explosions. Volumetric evaporation is proposed as effecting these events. In contrast, and resulting from a different mechanism, pure aluminum (Al99.5) shows group ejection events with at least 10 spatters at a time. In this study, there are no correlations between spatter velocities and flight path angles, nor between velocities and approximate spatter sizes.
关键词： high-speed imaging,keyhole welding,aluminum alloy,welding,laser welding,spatter
更新于2025-09-19 17:13:59
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[Laser Institute of America ICALEO? 2015: 34th International Congress on Laser Materials Processing, Laser Microprocessing and Nanomanufacturing - Atlanta, Georgia, USA (October 18–22, 2015)] International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics - Prediction of weld bead for fiber laser keyhole welding based on FEA
摘要： Fiber laser keyhole welding as a popular metal joining process has been widely used in a variety of applications especially automotive, shipbuilding and aerospace industries. Although process parameters determination based on experiments is the frequently used in the practical welding, it is often a very costly and time consuming. Accurately predicting the weld bead without expensive trial experiments has great theoretical significance and engineering value for welding process parameters pre-selection. An innovative volume heat source model was proposed for weld bead geometry prediction through finite element analysis (FEA) in fiber laser keyhole welding. The hybrid heat source model consists of a double ellipsoid heat source and a 3D Gaussian heat distribution model. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed heat source model, the fiber laser keyhole welding of the stainless steel SUS301L-HT has been carried out in this paper. The main three parameters, laser power (LP), welding speed (WS) and focal position (FP) have been taken into consideration as the design variables. Both of the predicted values from the FEA and back propagation neural network (BPNN) are compared with the experimental results. The FEA predicted results achieve good agreement with experimental results of weld bead shape and dimension and are better than BPNN predicted results. The objective variation trend is also analyzed by two prediction methods. From the discussion, it is revealed that the proposed prediction method of weld bead is effective for fiber laser keyhole welding process and replacing the expensive experiments.
关键词： Weld bead prediction,Keyhole welding,Fiber laser,FEA,BPNN
更新于2025-09-12 10:27:22