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Lasers are widely used in surface engineering because of their advantages over the conventional surface treatment methods. Some of these advantages include precision of operation, fast processing, and localized treatment. Laser surface treatment involves with solid heating and phase change at the irradiated surface. In this chapter, the importance of laser applications in surface engineering is introduced and some aspects of laser surface treatment are presented.
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Yilbas, B.S., Shuja, S.Z. (2013). Introduction. In: Laser Surface Processing and Model Studies. Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36629-1_1
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