Production and Usage of Laser-Beam-Welded Sheet Metal
870413
02/01/1987
- Event
- Content
- In connection with the development of a fully galvanized passenger car body to be produced in large-scale series, use was made at Thyssen Stahl AG of laser welding technology to develop a new product for which no production possibilities previously existed anywhere in the world. Apart from the development of the welding technology and the application-related tests performed in parallel, an automatic production installation was designed and built in-house. By the end of 1986, some 400,000 laser-welded galvanized sheets had been successfully processed, chiefly into difficult, deep-drawn parts.
- Pages
- 12
- Citation
- Selige, A., and Prange, W., "Production and Usage of Laser-Beam-Welded Sheet Metal," SAE Technical Paper 870413, 1987, https://doi.org/10.4271/870413.