TY - JOUR A1 - Yang, Fan A1 - Meng, Xiangmeng A1 - Putra, Stephen Nugraha A1 - Artinov, Antoni A1 - Bachmann, Marcel A1 - Rethmeier, Michael T1 - Numerical analysis of the effect of an oscillating metal vapor plume on the keyhole and molten pool behavior during deep penetration laser beam welding T2 - Journal of Laser Applications N2 - The effect of the oscillating metal vapor plume on the keyhole and molten pool behavior during the laser beam welding of AlMg3 aluminum alloys is investigated by experimental and numerical methods. The real-time height of the metal vapor plume is measured by high-speed camera observation. The obtained experimental results are used to evaluate the additional heating source and laser beam attenuation caused by the scattering and absorption based on the Beer–Lambert theory. Furthermore, the dynamic behavior of the metal vapor plume is incorporated into a 3D transient heat transfer and fluid flow model, coupled with the ray tracing method, for the laser beam welding of the AlMg3 alloy. It is found that additional heating resulting from the scattered and absorbed laser beam energy by the metal vapor plume significantly expands the shape of the molten pool on the top region. Moreover, the oscillating metal vapor plume caused the fluctuation of the high-temperature region in the molten pool. The probability of keyhole collapse at the bottom increases 17% due to the oscillating laser power induced by the laser beam attenuation. The internal interplay between the metal vapor plume, molten pool shape, and keyhole collapse is obtained. The developed model has been validated by experiments, which shows a good agreement. PB - AIP Publishing CY - Melville, NY T2 - International Congress of Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics 2023 CY - Chicago, IL, USA DA - 16.10.2023 KW - Deep penetration laser beam welding KW - Numerical simulation KW - Oscillating vapor plume KW - Keyhole collapse PY - 2023 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/58797 AN - OPUS4-58797 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-587978 SN - 1938-1387 SN - 1042-346X VL - 35 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 10 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany