Laser welding has been studied since the advent of lasers in the 1960s. It has undergone nearly 40 years of development from welding small thin parts or equipment to the current large-scale application of high-power laser welding in industrial production. It was clearly studied in the early 20th century. The first laser was developed in 1960. Four years later, the world's first YAG solid-state laser and CO2 gas laser were developed. Since then, laser welding machines have been widely used in various industries.
1. Advantages of laser welding machines compared to traditional welding methods
Before the advent of laser welding, the industry still used traditional welding methods. Due to the uneven local melting of the weld, deformation often occurs after welding, which cannot meet the welding requirements. Due to the insufficient precision of the welding process, incomplete fusion between the workpiece and the weld metal or weld layer will also occur, and the weld contains non-metallic slag, gas absorption and voids and other defects, which often cause the welded parts to crack and affect the sealing performance.
Laser welding has the advantages of high energy density, small deformation, narrow heat affected zone, high welding speed, easy automatic control, no need for follow-up processing. In recent years, it has become an important means of manufacturing and processing metal materials. It is increasingly widely used in automobiles, aerospace, defense industry, shipbuilding, marine engineering, nuclear power equipment and other fields, and the materials involved cover almost all metal materials.
Although compared with traditional welding methods, laser welding still has the problems of expensive equipment, large one-time investment and high technical requirements, which makes the industrial application of laser welding in my country quite limited, but laser welding has high production efficiency and easy to realize automatic control features, making it ideal for mass production lines and flexible manufacturing.
Nowadays, metal welding has increasingly high requirements for the strength and appearance of the welding. Traditional welding methods inevitably cause problems such as deformation and deformation of the workpiece due to the large heat input. In order to compensate for the deformation problem, many monitoring measures are required, resulting in increased costs. The fully automatic laser welding method has the smallest heat input and the heat affected zone is extremely small, which greatly improves the quality of the welded workpiece, reduces the cost of monitoring work, and greatly improves the efficiency and stability of welding.
2. Many designs, many choices
In summary, laser welding technology is very mature at present. Laser welding machines have low energy consumption, high precision and low environmental pollution. More and more technology industries choose laser welding machines to ensure product quality and reassure companies and customers.
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