“For a long time, we’ve used fasteners ... began in August when the team performed high-powered fiber laser beam welding in a simulated reduced gravity environment on board a commercial ...

Using conventional techniques, this can take over a year, but Sheffield Forgemasters have reduced this to under a day using what is called Local Electron-Beam Welding (LEBW) to complete four thick ...

So why use laser beam welding (LBW) rather than EBW? EBW obviously doesn’t work too well when there is some level of atmosphere, is more limited with materials and has as only major advantage ...

Research center Laser Zentrum Hannover (LZH) is researching ways to make welding thick plates in shipbuilding more reliable. The scientists are developing a multi-laser beam welding process with ...

They are using an additional laser beam to accelerate and stabilize the process. As part of the “ÖkoHybrid” project, the LZH scientists are investigating welding processes on fine-grain structural ...

Accessing all sides of a heavy steel beam for welding can be time-consuming and can threaten team members’ safety. While various rotator solutions have emerged, they have not addressed several ...

Sheffield Forgemasters has completed weld-assembly of a full-sized small modular reactor nuclear vessel demonstrator assembly using Local Electron-Beam Welding. It said the technique took less than 24 ...