Laser Cladding By Powder Injection

Laser cladding is a fully automated additive process that uses a high power laser to create a weld pool.

Laser cladding by powder injection.

Laser cladding is one of the material additive manufacturing processes used to produce a metallurgically bonded deposition layer. In the proposed method the interaction between powder and melt pool. Optimization of the processing conditions article pdf available in journal de physique iv proceedings 01 c7 december 1991 with 65 reads. Using coaxial powder injection in combination with a lateral feed wire system improvements to the laser cladding process have been made.

Laser cladding by a powder injection technique has been widely used in industrial applications such as rapid manufacturing parts repair surface coating and innovative alloy development 2 14 18. The model simulates the quasi steady temperature field for the longitudinal section of a clad track. When the sole mechanism of the feed system was coaxial powder injection the deposition ranged from 27 for an 1100 kw laser to 33 for a 1500 kw laser. Laser cladding by powder injection is an advanced laser material processing technique which is used in manufacturing part repair coating and metallic rapid prototyping.

To obtain a high quality resulting part a deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms is required. In this process a laser beam melts powder particles and a thin layer of the substrate to create a bulk layer on the substrate. The proposed model can predict clad geometry as a function of time and process parameters including beam velocity laser power powder jet geometry laser pulse shaping and material properties. A two dimensional 2 d finite element model is presented for laser cladding by powder injection.

Filler material can be added via powder injection or hot wire offering a wide range of off the shelf and custom solutions. In this article a mathematical model is developed to simulate the coaxial laser cladding process with powder injection which includes laser substrate laser. A great deal of research is now being concentrated on developing automatic laser cladding machines. Laser cladding by powder injection.

The capability to mix two or more types of powders and to control the feed rate of each powder flow makes laser cladding a flexible process for. Laser cladding has the potential for very high deposition rates with dilution as low as 1 2. Laser cladding by a powder injection technique has been widely used in industrial applications such as rapid manufacturing parts repair surface coating and innovative alloy development.