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Laser Beam Micro-cutting

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Non-traditional Micromachining Processes

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This chapter gives a brief overview of laser beam cutting. An illustration of basic fundamentals of laser material interaction and material removal is given here which considers generation of photon and interaction with electron to generate heat, absorption of heat, phase transformation, plasma generation, ablation and removal mechanism of cut material from the irradiate region at dry condition. An experimental study of laser beam cutting of Inconel 625 superalloy at dry condition is given at the end of this chapter. During this experimental study effect of different process parameters on machining characteristics also discussed in details.

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The authors acknowledge the financial support from UGC, New Delhi under the scheme of Rajiv Gandhi national Fellowship scheme and technical equipment support from UGC, New Delhi under the CAS Ph-IV program of Production Engineering Dept. of Jadavpur University.

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    N. Roy, A. S. Kuar & S. Mitra

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aliah University Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kolkata, India

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Roy, N., Kuar, A.S., Mitra, S. (2017). Laser Beam Micro-cutting. In: Kibria, G., Bhattacharyya, B., Davim, J. (eds) Non-traditional Micromachining Processes. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52009-4_7

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