EXPERIMENT AND FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATION OF LASER BENDING OF TUBES

Laser bending of tubes has the following advantages over mechanical bending of tubes. Neither a hard bending tool nor external forces are required, Wall thickness reduction seems to be avoided and lesser ovalization results. With the flexibility of the laser beam delivery and numerical control systems. In order to have better understanding of the parameters of laser bending of tubes, experiments have been conducted to bend them using a pulsed Nd-YAG laser. The parameters involved in the bending of tubes have been studied in detail. The experimental results have been compared with the results obtained by simulation of the experiments.

کلیدواژه ها:

Laser bending ، Bending angle ، Micro tube ، Pulsed Laser