Structural applications of steel have long made use of elongated beams with carefully designed profiles, whose geometry gives them specific mechanical properties. Nowadays, the variety of cutting and ...

As with traditional welding techniques, materials are melted in the weld zone, although laser-based techniques use quicker heating and cooling cycles (Figure 1). These rapid thermal cycles are a ...

For shaft repairs, LBW-W is generally more applicable than LBW-P. The first reason for this is that LBW-W has a lower probability of forming defects, namely porosity, which may result in rejectable ...