Establishing a Hybrid Laser Lathing Technology
Traditional contact lathing is greatly challenged by the rapidly being developed super hard engineering materials. Being the earliest machining process, lathing operation captures 60 % of the total machining processes in most metal cutting industries. This paper reviews the literature related to t...
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| Language: | en |
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IDOSI Publications
2013
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/8590/1/25_WASJ_21.pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/8590/ http://www.wasj.org/ |
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| Summary: | Traditional contact lathing is greatly challenged by the rapidly being developed super hard
engineering materials. Being the earliest machining process, lathing operation captures 60 % of the total
machining processes in most metal cutting industries. This paper reviews the literature related to the available
technological solutions for non-contact laser lathing process. It also aims to establish a novel methodology
to propose a hybrid non-contact lathing operation using a flatbed CO laser cutting machine.While exposing 2
the various techniques of laser lathing, preliminary empirical work conducted shows a promising future of
hybridizing CO laser flat cutting into laser lathing process. The summary of this paper is expected to create a 2
leap in laser machining process towards developing a hybrid laser processing of materials involving
transformation of 2D flat cutting into 3D laser turning to cater the market of precision machining. |
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