Acoustic emission during the laser welding of metals with a modulated CO2 laser beam has been investigated. Sharp resonances at many frequencies in the acoustic emission spectra have been observed. This was most notic...
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Acoustic emission during the laser welding of metals with a modulated CO2 laser beam has been investigated. Sharp resonances at many frequencies in the acoustic emission spectra have been observed. This was most noticeable when the average laser power was high enough to produce full penetration welds whose acoustic emission at high harmonics with frequencies that overlap with bands of vibrational frequencies corresponding to eigenmodes of the keyhole are greatly enhanced. Lower harmonics were not clearly observed. However, in partial penetration welding, many harmonic components were observed. These results are not affected by a surface coating of the metal as in the galvanized steel sheet sample. This observation indicates that the keyhole and its surrounding liquid layer act as a frequency selective amplifier for pressure fluctuations induced by changes in the interaction of the laser radiation with the walls of the keyhole. When a continuous wave (CW) beam is used, random fluctuations with frequencies within these allowed bands are amplified to produce a spectrum consisting of a large number of overlapping but discrete frequency components. When the laser beam is modulated, a forced response is elicited resulting in a much simplified emission spectrum.
This paper describes a confocal scanning beam MACROscope/Microscope which can image specimens up to 7x7 cm in size using reflected light, photoluminescence and optical beam induced current. The MACROscope provides a 1...
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This paper describes a confocal scanning beam MACROscope/Microscope which can image specimens up to 7x7 cm in size using reflected light, photoluminescence and optical beam induced current. The MACROscope provides a 10 mu m spot size at various wavelengths and generates 512 x 512 pixel images in less than 5 s. When used in combination with a conventional confocal scanning laser microscope sub-micron spot sizes become possible providing resolutions as high as 0.25 mu m laterally and 0.5 mu m axially in reflected light. The main function of this imaging system is to spatially resolve any defects within solar cells and similar devices. Several reflected-light, photoluminescence and OBIC images of CdS/CuInSe2 and CdZnS/CuInSe2 thin film solar cells are presented.
The Hamilton least action principle, a reformulated Maupertuis least action principle, and their reciprocals, are shown to be useful as direct methods for approximate solutions of dynamics problems. We discuss applica...
The Hamilton least action principle, a reformulated Maupertuis least action principle, and their reciprocals, are shown to be useful as direct methods for approximate solutions of dynamics problems. We discuss applications to trajectories of all types, i.e., periodic, quasiperiodic, chaotic, scattering, and arbitrary segments of arbitrary trajectories. The analogy with the standard technique used in quantum mechanics is very striking, especially in one of the reformulations (extremization of the mean energy), and in the calculational procedure (Rayleigh-Ritz type). (C) 1996 American Association of physics Teachers.
An analytic inversion method, based on the anomalous diffraction approximation for nonabsorbing spherical particles, was developed to retrieve the size distribution from the optical turbidity or extinction spectrum. T...
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An analytic inversion method, based on the anomalous diffraction approximation for nonabsorbing spherical particles, was developed to retrieve the size distribution from the optical turbidity or extinction spectrum. This method makes use of a differential Fourier cosine transform approach and provides a simple and fast inversion by means of fast Fourier transform and the Savitzky-Golay filter. The applicability of this algorithm was tested on the extinction data generated by the Mie solution. The effects of noise, modality, band limits, and data set size were analyzed by comparison with simulated data. This method can be used to reconstruct the original monomodal and bimodal distributions from 10% noise-corrupted data. The peak position and ratio of peak heights can be recovered with 10% or less deviation. The experiments with latex spheres showed that the inversion result from this method compares favorably with that from the dynamic light scattering measurement. (C) 1996 Optical Society of America
We present three-dimensional off-lattice Monte Carlo simulations on randomly branched polymers with annealed and quenched branching structures when monomers interact with each other through excluded volume interaction...
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Acoustic emission at frequencies between 20 Hz and 20 kHz during CO2 laser welding of steel contains important diagnostic information related to weld morphology, depth of penetration and the heat-affected zone. We hav...
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Acoustic emission at frequencies between 20 Hz and 20 kHz during CO2 laser welding of steel contains important diagnostic information related to weld morphology, depth of penetration and the heat-affected zone. We have recorded acoustic spectra under a variety of welding conditions with mild and galvanized steel sheet and find that a well-defined spectrum is obtained under conditions that lead to an optimization of these weld characteristics. A statistical approach is developed which yields a predictive measure of weld quality, based on a comparison between real-time acoustic spectra, and that obtained under optimized conditions. This technique is applied to an analysis of bead on plate, lap and butt laser welds in mild and galvanized steel.
The propagation of heat into fused quartz during drilling with CO2 laser radiation had been studied using differential holographic interferometry. This technique yields the temporal evolution of the thermally induced ...
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The propagation of heat into fused quartz during drilling with CO2 laser radiation had been studied using differential holographic interferometry. This technique yields the temporal evolution of the thermally induced optical path difference in a cross section through the sample in a plane which contains the longitudinal axis of the drill hole. With the assumption of cylindrical symmetry, a portion of the temperature field in the sample has been obtained from these optical path length differences and is compared to the results of theoretical models for heat transfer from a high-aspect-ratio laser-heated drill hole. Isotherms derived in this way have been obtained during CO2 laser drilling of fused quartz in normal gravity and under the reduced gravity conditions of the NASA KC 135 aircraft under parabolic flight conditions. Heat transfer from a pre-drilled hole absorbing laser radiation has also been studied to evaluate the possible effect of material removal on heat transfer. Comparisons of these thermal profiles with those generated by numerical modelling of heat transfer from a laser-heated drill differences. Possible sources of these differences measured isotherms are discussed.
We observed sharp resonances at certain frequencies in the acoustic and optical emission from metals during laser welding with a modulated CO2 laser beam. Strong emission is observed at high-order harmonics of the las...
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We observed sharp resonances at certain frequencies in the acoustic and optical emission from metals during laser welding with a modulated CO2 laser beam. Strong emission is observed at high-order harmonics of the laser modulation frequency. Harmonics whose frequencies overlap with bands of vibrational frequencies corresponding to eigenmodes of the keyhole are greatly enhanced, relative to other harmonics whose frequencies lie outside these bands. The keyhole and its surrounding liquid layer act as a frequency selective amplifier for pressure fluctuations induced by changes in the interaction of laser radiation with the walls of the keyhole. When a CW beam is used, random fluctuations with frequencies within these allowed bands are amplified to produce a spectrum consisting of a large number of overlapping but discrete frequency components. When the laser beam is modulated, a forced response is elicited resulting in a much simplified emission spectrum. These results offer some new insights into the physical mechanisms that convert laser radiation to heat in laser welding, drilling and cutting applications.
We have produced thin solid films of hydrogenated amorphous carbon (HAC) by vapor deposition in vacuum and have investigated the structure and infrared spectra of these materials under conditions in which they are at ...
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We have produced thin solid films of hydrogenated amorphous carbon (HAC) by vapor deposition in vacuum and have investigated the structure and infrared spectra of these materials under conditions in which they are at the point of decomposition. We find that the IR absorption spectrum of HAC under these conditions contains all the major spectral components seen in emission in nebulae. In addition, high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy of HAC prior to decomposition reveals protographitic islands with dimensions similar to 1-5 nm showing that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-like molecular groups evolve from HAC. These experimental results suggest for the first time how PAHs and HAC may be related and how PAH molecules could evolve from HAC in regions of high excitation. The material produced as HAC decomposes is a very low density carbonaceous ''aerogel'' consisting primarily of these aromatic protographitic clusters in a weakly connected friable network. These protographitic clusters may be the source of interstellar graphite grains.
We investigate the conditions required for the existence of smectic-A liquid-crystal films freely suspended in vapor. This work is based on a molecular density-functional theory developed in earlier studies of wetting...
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