Polymer-metal hybrid structures have excellent comprehensive properties and have been
widely used in aerospace, automotive industry, biomedicine, and other fields. There exists a …

Laser transmission welding (LTW) is nowadays a well-received polymer joining process.
New applications are emerging more and more due to the unique advantages of LTW over …

Dual-phase steel DP590 and carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) were successfully
joined by laser welding. Experiments and numerical simulations were performed to clarify …

Laser transmission welding (LTW) offers superior weld quality and mechanical performance
over conventional polymer welding processes. The ever-increasing applications in a wide …

Metal–polymer hybrid structures have been widely used in research into their lightweight
automotive applications, because of their excellent comprehensive properties. As an …

We are living in a time where the emphasis is given on the development of new and
improved materials having high strength and are correspondingly light in weight for …

The laser absorbents are necessary in the process of laser transmission welding (LTW)
transparent thermoplastics. It has been demonstrated that metal absorbents in LTW have …

Achieving high interfacial bonding strength between plastics and metals is one of the key
challenges of structural lightweight. Oscillating laser beam was employed to improving the …

Laser welding experiments involving amorphous thermoplastic polymer (PMMA) and 304
austenitic stainless steel plates were conducted to explore the influence of laser welding …

The joining of light alloy and carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics composite (CFRTP) is
recently considered to be an effective way to meet the lightweight requirements of …