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Numerical investigation on keyhole collapsing and rebuilding behavior during pulsed laser beam welding of Ti6Al4V titanium alloy under various pulse frequencies

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A multi-phase and multi-physics coupling model was proposed and experimentally verified. The simulation of keyhole and weld pool dynamics was conducted during the pulsed laser beam welding (PLBW) of Ti6Al4V titanium alloy. Different pulse frequencies were employed in numerical cases to investigate the influences on thermal transfer and fluid flow behavior and the resultant weld pool dimensions. The calculation results reveal that the welding dynamics go through three stages, that is, keyhole formation/rebuilding, keyhole shrinking, and keyhole collapsing, within a typical laser pulse period. Keyhole collapsing always induces porosities in the lower weld pool, which can be non-contact with a rising-up tendency or captured by the liquid-solid interface unilaterally or multilaterally. Compensation flows are commonly observed near the concaves at keyhole shrinking stage, and then evolve to circulations between porosity and collapsed keyhole. Besides, the keyhole and weld pool show an oscillatory growth on depth values with the oscillation amplitude of keyhole being much higher. A reduced laser pulse frequency can increase the initial weld pool dimensions, obviously, while having little impact on the final welding penetration. The configuration of pulse frequency should be critical to a desirable welding formation in terms of continuity and homogeneity.

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The authors gratefully acknowledged a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation No. 2020M671479.

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    Jicheng Chen & Xuejun Liu

  2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization, Nanjing, 210023, China

    Jicheng Chen & Xuejun Liu

  3. College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 211106, China

    Xiaomei Chen & Yanhong Wei

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Chen, J., Chen, X., Liu, X. et al. Numerical investigation on keyhole collapsing and rebuilding behavior during pulsed laser beam welding of Ti6Al4V titanium alloy under various pulse frequencies. Appl. Phys. A 128, 140 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-021-05006-6

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