A fabricator that needs to weld thick plate in as few passes as possible often will turn to submerged arc welding (SAW), a ...

Cobot laser welding at THG goes back several FABTECHs, during a dinner conversation between company representatives and a ...

Laser Welding is apparently the new hotness, in part because these sci-fi rayguns masquerading as tools are really cool. They cut! They weld! They Julienne Fry! Well, maybe not that last one. In ...

Try to laser weld two pieces of clear plastic together and they may not remain clear for long. The carbon black and other opaque additives that make laser welding of clear materials possible in the ...

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

Figure 1. Various test samples that have been laser welded in an applications lab (a) and a low-density polyethylene fluid container welded with a diode laser system (b). Direct welding of plastics is ...

Adaptive laser beam shaping with a deformable mirror enables efficient energy and material usage in laser welding and ...

Everybody likes 3D printing, right? But it’s slow compared to 2D laser cutting. If only there were a way to combine multiple 2D slices into a 3D model. OK, we know that you’re already doing it by hand ...

Laser welding of plastic is quick, precise, and generates little waste, but it does have its limitations. The process involves shining a laser beam through the edge of an upper sheet of plastic and ...

Researchers discuss an ambitious project to understand the basic principles of laser welding better than ever before. On its surface, the work is deceptively simple: Shoot a high-power laser beam onto ...