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Investigation of recast and crack formation in laser trepanning drilling of CMSX-4 angled holes

Morar, Nicolau Iralal and Roy, Rajkumar and Mehnen, Jörn and Marithumu, Sundar and Gray, Simon and Roberts, Tracey and Nicholls, John (2018) Investigation of recast and crack formation in laser trepanning drilling of CMSX-4 angled holes. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. ISSN 0268-3768

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Abstract

This paper presents an experimental investigation on the influences of laser trepanning drilling process parameters on the recast layer thickness and surface crack formation in CMSX-4 nickel-based superalloy angled holes. The effects of peak power, pulse frequency and the trepanning speed as input parameters were investigated in details by varying the laser drilling conditions using Taguchi orthogonal array-based design of experiment approach. Analysis of variance identifies the significant parameters affecting the output responses. It is found that the output responses are affected mainly by the peak power and trepanning speed. The experimental results reveal that the recast layer thickness increases with the increase of peak power and trepanning speed whereas the crack number density decreases with the increase of peak power only. Pulse frequency has no significant effect on both output responses within the range of values investigated. The knowledge gained in this parametric study could be used to improve the metallurgical characteristics of laser-drilled nickel-based acute angled holes.

Item type: Article
ID code: 62756
Keywords: laser trepanning drilling, CMSX-4, recast layer, surface cracks, Engineering design, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Subjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > Engineering design
Department: Faculty of Engineering > Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management
Depositing user: Pure Administrator
Date deposited: 09 Jan 2018 10:11
Last modified: 26 Feb 2019 21:26
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URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62756
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