Numerical Studies on Laser Welding Process

Abstract

Laser welding is widely adopted in different industry fields to assemble lightweight structures. Recent research developments relating to finite element analysis of laser welding process is reviewed in this paper. It is concluded that the finite element analysis of laser welding process will allow many different designs to be simulated in order to perform a selection of different system parameters before testing, which would currently take too long to perform or be prohibitively expensive in practice. The main methods used in finite element analysis of laser welding process are discussed and illustrated with brief case studies from the literature.