LASER PRETREATMENT OF CONTAMINATED SURFACES FOR FUSION BONDING PROCESSES.

Autor: Lippky, K., Weimer, J., Schnurr, R., Beuscher, J., Kreling, S., Dröder, K., Dilger, K.
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Zdroj: International Sampe Technical Conference; 2016, p398-408, 11p
Abstrakt: Driven by regulations to reduce emissions like carbon or nitrogen dioxide, the use of fiber reinforced plastics in the automotive industry increases steadily. As these materials are considerably more expensive than metals, cost-efficient manufacturing processes have to be applied in order to make them competitive. Therefore, smart production processes are the key to enabling a cost efficient light weight design, based on fiber reinforced materials. One material class, which becomes more and more interesting in the automotive industry are fiber-reinforced thermoplastics. Besides their excellent properties for large-batch productions, resulting from their good formability, the main advantage over fiber-reinforced thermosets is the possibility of joining these materials by fusion bonding. This property enables the realization of a cost efficient production chain characterized by the integration of joining into the forming and consolidation process step. In this investigation fusion bonding based on an inductive heating is combined with a laser pre-treatment of the metal adherend in order to achieve sufficient joining strength for structural components, especially if process contaminations (e.g. deep drawing oils) are present. Surface analytics were used in order to understand the impact of pre-treatment on the bond strength determined by single lap shear tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index