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Demands placed on dissimilar metals joints have increased from various viewpoints, such as, environmental concerns, energy saving, high performance, cost saving and so on. The aim of this manuscript is to predict and optimize laser welding of some economically important dissimilar materials in industry through applying a Taguchi orthogonal array design as a design of experiment (DOE) approach to design the experiments, develop mathematical models and optimize the welding operation. This was achieved by controlling selected welding parameters; laser power, welding speed and focus position, to relate the mechanical properties and weld bead geometry to the selected input welding parameters. The dissimilar materials studied in this work were low carbon steel and stainless steel. For the studied dissimilar welded material, mathematical models were developed to predict the required responses. Furthermore, the study of dissimilar were optimized by determining the best combinations of input process parameters in order to produce an excellent weld quality.
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Anawa, E., Olabi, A. (2014). Developing and Optimization Models for Multi-mechanical Properties of Dissimilar Laser Welding Joints. In: Öchsner, A., Altenbach, H. (eds) Design and Computation of Modern Engineering Materials. Advanced Structured Materials, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07383-5_19
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