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PA position full penetration high power laser beam welding of up to 30 mm thick AlMg3 plates using electromagnetic weld pool support

2012; Maney Publishing; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1179/1362171811y.0000000085

1743-2936

Vjaceslav Avilov, Andrey Gumenyuk, Marco Lammers, Michael Rethmeier,

Laser and Thermal Forming Techniques

Full penetration 15 kW Yb fibre laser butt welding of thick AlMg3 (AW 5754) plates was performed in PA position. A contactless inductive electromagnetic weld pool support system was used to prevent gravity dropout of the melt. The welding speed needed to achieve 20 mm penetration was ∼0·5 m min −1 . An ac power supply of ∼244 W at 460 Hz was necessary to completely suppress gravity dropout of the melt and eliminate sagging of the weld pool root side surface. The oscillating magnetic field can suppress the Marangoni convection in the lower part of the weld pool. The system was also successfully used in the full penetration welding of 30 mm thick AlMg3 plates.