Conductive and convective heat transfer during welding of AISI316L stainless steel using pulsed Nd: YAG laser

摘要： Conductive and convective heat transfers during an autogenous butt joint welding of AISI 316L stainless steel sheets using pulsed Nd: YAG laser have investigated. An FEA based three-dimensional model was developed to receive the transient thermal responses across the weld pool and the predicted results are compared with experimental observations. The heat transfer in the keyhole region, melt ?ow directions around the keyhole and heat affected zone are computed for consecutive pulse irradiation during laser welding and the same was investigated on far with experiment. The temperature distribution have predicted in terms of inward heat ?ux and Paclet number to investigate the heat and mass transportation in the weld pool. These results have taken for discussion and found that has a close association with experimental results.