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Metallic Materials Processing: Cutting and Drilling

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Cutting and drilling by lasers can be accomplished in two ways:

  • The first one mainly used when cutting with CW beams consists in melting the material and removing the liquid by a gas-jet. This process is often referred to as melt-cutting.

  • In the second case, typical of drilling and cutting by pulsed beams the material is vaporized and self-removal occurs by the expanding vapour.

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Sona, A. (1987). Metallic Materials Processing: Cutting and Drilling. In: Soares, O.D.D., Perez-Amor, M. (eds) Applied Laser Tooling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3569-3_7

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