《Modeling of laser beam welding of stainless steel shrrt butt joint using neural networks》.pdf

CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology 3 (2010) 80–84 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology journal homepage: /locate/cirpj Modeling of laser beam welding of stainless steel sheet butt joint using neural networks K.R. Balasubramanian a,*, G. Buvanashekaran b, K. Sankaranarayanasamy a a Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli 622015, Tamil Nadu, India b Welding Research Institute, BHEL, Tiruchirappalli 622014, Tamil Nadu, India A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: Laser beam welding (LBW) of austenitic stainless steel (AISI 304) of thickness 1.6 mm is carried out using Available online 6 August 2010 2 kW CW Nd:YAG laser. The effect of laser power, welding speed and beam incident angle on the butt weld bead geometry, i.e. depth of penetration (DOP) and bead width (BW) is investigated. The Keywords: experiment is designed based on three level Box-Behnken design with replication. Modeling of laser Laser welding welding of stainless sheet butt joint is performed using backpropagation trained neural network. The Neural network predicted results of the research showed a comprehensive and usable prediction of the laser welding Stainless steel parameters for butt joints using neural network. Modeling