This paper will explain the importance of batteries, their thermal managements systems, and how new technologies such as Dynamic Beam Lasers can change the way batteries and their cooling plates are produced
Researchers at IFSW’s x-ray facility will study dynamic beam lasers to better understand the impact of laser beam shape, shape frequency, and shape sequencing on keyhole stability, weld quality, and microstructure. (Image: Civan Lasers)
The researchers will view inside the melt pool during laser welding to better understand the origin of defects such as pores, spatter, and cracking
Multiphysics simulation software modeling the megahertz-level frequencies of Civan’s dynamic beam shaping lasers. (Image: TU Wien)
Researchers at Technical University Wien have collaborated with Civan Lasers to simulate its dynamic beam laser technology
The partners made a scanner for BBW Lasertechnik which will be integrated in a welding system. (Image: BBW Lasertechnik)
Civan’s dynamic beam laser technology combined with Smart Move’s laser scan head will enable beam shape orientation to be altered on the fly
Hydrogen fuel cells could provide a suitable alternative to plug-in electric HGVs, where the weight of the battery could prove to be an issue. (Image: Shutterstock/Audeo und werbung)
New laser technology could help make hydrogen-powered vehicles commercially viable, David Stuart finds
Producing hydrogen fuel cells requires welding hundreds of thin bipolar plates of just hundreds of microns in thickness. (Image: iStock)
Automotive manufacturers are currently facing throughput challenges when welding fuel cells
Ship under construction in a shipyard. (Image: Shutterstock.com)
Keely Portway looks at how new laser technologies are optimising welding and cutting for shipbuilding
A Dynamic Beam Laser from Civan Lasers has been installed at Fraunhofer IWS in Dresden. The institute is thus the first research institution worldwide to utilize such a laser solution. (Image: Fraunhofer IWS)
The institute expects the technology to overcome the challenges of using crack-sensitive materials in additive manufacturing
This webinar will present some of the current challenges in laser welding and how beam shaping and steering can be used to overcome these challenges
Dynamic beam shaping can be applied to offer defect-free welding, cutting, drilling and additive manufacturing. (Image: Civan Lasers)
Dynamic beam shaping enables controllable beam shape, frequency, and focus steering to provide defect-free processing outcomes
Sanin Zulic and Sunil Pathak share how laser shock peening can be used to improve residual stresses in additively manufactured parts
Sanin Zulic and Sunil Pathak share how laser shock peening can be used to improve residual stresses in additively manufactured parts
Mark Zediker, Jean-Michel Pelaprat and Andrew Dodd share how early results are already demonstrating the advantages of blue lasers in additive manufacturing
Mark Zediker, Jean-Michel Pelaprat and Andrew Dodd share how early results are already demonstrating the advantages of blue lasers in additive manufacturing
Alexandre Rondepierre and Olivier Casagrande demonstrate a new approach that overcomes existing laser shock peening challenges
Alexandre Rondepierre and Olivier Casagrande demonstrate a new approach that overcomes existing laser shock peening challenges
(Image: Andrey Armyagov/Shutterstock)
An brief look at laser cutting and some of the technology developments made in recent years
Richard Stähr and his colleagues are using laser drilling to produce perforated acoustic liners for insulating aircraft noise
Richard Stähr and his colleagues are using laser drilling to produce perforated acoustic liners for insulating aircraft noise
Oliver Haupt and Jan Brune describe how deep-UV excimer lasers can overcome microLED display manufacturing challenges
Oliver Haupt and Jan Brune describe how deep-UV excimer lasers can overcome microLED display manufacturing challenges
Hot-fire testing of a GRCop-42 L-PBF chamber and NASA HR-1 LP-DED nozzle with integral channels at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. (Image: NASA)
Matthew Dale learns how additive manufacturing is optimising the production of rocket components
Frederic Schell and Christoph Zwahr describe how direct laser interference patterning can augment additively manufactured medical implants
