Technology of the Future
In aviation and aerospace technology, the highest demands are placed on material and technology.
In aviation and aerospace technology, the highest demands are placed on material and technology.
Lightweight components are particularly important in the aerospace industry. The weight advantages over the classic material steel are particularly important here.
With wavelengths close to the absorption maximum of aluminum, LDF and LDM diode lasers are predestined as tools for aluminum welding of lightweight components. In addition to the light metal aluminum, fiber-reinforced plastics are primarily used. They are 25 percent lighter than aluminum and 60 to 70 percent lighter than steel. Laserline diode laser systems have also proven their worth here in the production of lightweight components using laser-based tape laying and winding.
When it comes to applying anti-corrosion coatings, laser-based powder cladding is clearly superior to other processes such as thermal spraying: The top-hat beam profile of the diode laser creates a particularly uniform molten pool, which produces fine-grained, pore-free and crack-free coatings. This reduces reworking to a minimum. Newer processes such as high-speed cladding are capable of replacing galvanic coating processes such as hard chrome plating, which is under threat of being banned in the EU.
Lightweight components are particularly important in the aerospace industry. The weight advantages over the classic material steel should not be underestimated. In addition to the light metal aluminum, fiber-reinforced plastics are primarily used.
Additive manufacturing is a comparatively new manufacturing process and opens up new possibilities for designers in prototype construction and the economical production of components with complex internal structures in small series. Laserline diode lasers are used successfully in the production of rocket components, for example.
These applications are particularly prevalent in the aerospace industry.
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